Showing posts with label June. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June. Show all posts

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2023

 

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2023

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2023 is now available, brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton and Lanark County. This month issue features articles on the following:

  • In Defence of Earwigs.
  • Grow a Garden Full of Memories.

  • Planting for Cedar Waxwings.
  • In the Alcove Garden: Blazing Star.
Our Master Gardeners answer the questions:
  • Why are my seedlings stunted?
  • How do I get scale off my Ficus benjamina?

If you would like to receive our newsletter in your email each month, send a message to lanarkmg@gmail.com

Photo by Dale Odorizzi, Lanark County Master Gardeners

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Trowel Talk June 15, 2022

 

Trowel Talk June 15, 2022

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2022 brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton and Lanark County is now available. This issue contains the following articles:

  • Combining Edibles with Ornamentals
  • Living with Rabbits in the Garden
  • Please Touch the Plants
  • Lambsquarters 
  • Invasive Honeysuckles
  • Ask a Master Gardener answers questions about tomatoes and rhubarb.
If you would like to receive this newsletter in your email inbox each month send us a message at lanarkmg@gmail.com.

Photo by Dale Odorizzi--Fritillary Butterfly enjoy a snack on chives in the Rose Garden.


Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2021

 

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2021

The Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2021 is now available. This month's newsletters contains articles on:

  • Rose pests--Roses are often called the Queen of the garden and two of the pests that can defoliate and damage them are the European rose sawfly and the rose budworms or leaf rollers. The author provides tips for catching these pests early.
  • Be a water-wise gardener--With city water bills rising and our summers becoming drier, the author provides ways to prevent and capture rain water and some best practices for watering.
  • Invasive Plants--Our invasive plant series continues with profiles on Common Buckthorn and the common Ditch Daylily.
  • Book Review--Gardening your Front Yard by Tara Nolan
  • Ask a Master Gardener answers the question about Ninebark Shrub and the dreaded Cucumber Beetle.
Hope you enjoy the newsletter. If you would like to have this newsletter delivered to your email inbox on a monthly basis, send a message to lanarkmg@gmail.com 

Monday, June 15, 2020

Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2020

Lanark County Master Gardeners

The June 15, 2020 edition of the Trowel Talk Newsletter is now available. This month, we feature articles on:

  • Calendula, an annual flowering herb sometimes called 'Pot Marigold' or Poor Man's Saffron

  •  Ask a Master Gardener--answers to questions about Hostas and Iris

  • Garden Safely--tips on how to garden without injury

  • Planting to preserve and beautify your shoreline, important buffers between land and water 

  • Garden Mint--Frightened by mints invasive reputation?  It can be controlled so you can enjoy.

  • Onions Galore!--Onions can also be ornamental too.

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    Saturday, June 1, 2019

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2019

    Lanark County Master Gardeners
    The Edible Garden Newsletter June 2019 is now available.  In this issue, we describe how and when to harvest, enjoy and store potatoes, including something we all look forward too, New Potatoes.  Do Potato Towers work? Check it out.  Our Bee Line series continues with information about Honeybees, Native Bees and Butterflies.  Part 2 in the series Introducing Soil describes what components make up soil.  The Herb of the Year for 2019 is Anise Hyssop.  We feature one gardeners experience of growing, and loving this plant.  Finally a recipe for Chive Vinegar.

    Friday, March 22, 2019

    Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale

    Lanark County Master Gardeners
    The Fletcher Wildlife Garden attracts naturalists, gardeners, school children and birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife.  It demonstrates how to create and restore wildlife-friendly habitats and garden with an emphasis on using plants native to our region.
    Once a year, the Fletcher Wildlife Garden hosts a plant sale that offers hundreds of beautiful wildflowers native to the Ottawa region.  They will help you find the right plant for your yard and encourage you to plant a wide variety of native plants that change from month to month and attracts birds, butterflies, bees and other wildlife.  The Plant Sale and Garden are located on Prince of Wales Drive, south of the Arboretum.
    To learn more about the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, visit the Slide Show to the right of this screen.
    For more information, or if you have questions, contact Sandy at 613-730-0714 or fletcher@ofnc.ca



    Friday, June 1, 2018

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2018

    Lanark County  Master Gardeners
    The Edible Garden Newsletter for June 2018 is now available.  This month our focus is on the nutritional powerhouse, Haskaps, also known as Honey berries.  This plant is well behaved and is hardy to Zone 2.  The main requirement to get a crop is that it has to have a partner and like many of us is picky on which partner it works with.  A favourite vegetable, and no nutritional slouch itself, is the common carrot.  We feature a carrot myth, a childhood favourite and a recipe.  We also have suggestions for some interesting Edible Planters.  Finally our Bee Line series continues with a tribute to a ghost in the making, the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee.

    Thursday, June 1, 2017

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2017

    Lanark County Master Gardeners
    The Edible Garden Newsletter for June 2017 A resilient gardener must prepare in advance for hot dry summers.  Over the next three issues, we focus on drought busting solutions.  This issue concentrates on your garden topography.  We also explore the history and usage for four perennial herbs.  Finally, our pollinator series continues with a not very popular pollinator and introduce a way you can become a backyard scientist.

    Monday, March 20, 2017

    Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale

    Lanark County Master Gardeners
    Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale June 3, 2017 9:30-12:30.  Help pollinators and butterflies, attract birds to your backyard. We’ll show you which native plant species are favourites with wildlife at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden and which species will do well in your growing conditions. We have milkweeds for monarchs, asters to suit any garden location, goldenrods, blue-eyed grass, bergamot, beardtongue, a few native grass species, and hundreds of other species from our own garden. Watch our website www.ofnc.ca/fletcher for a list of species for sale later this spring. Annual Native Plant Sale

    Wednesday, June 1, 2016

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2016

    Lanark Master Gardeners June 2016
    This month, we visit the members of the Allium family--onions, garlic and more. Learn all about another Edible beauty, Nasturtiums, and read a review of the movie Symphony of the Soil.  Finally a reminder of some excellent water sharing techniques.  Read more.

    Friday, March 25, 2016

    Perth Museum Bird Watching Tour

    Lanark Master Gardeners Birdwalking Tour
    Join experienced birder, Cliff Bennett, as our guide to a Bird Walking Tour on June 4th OR June 11th at the Perth Wildlife Reserve. Lanark County Master Gardeners will talk about local plants that attract birds.  Each tour is limited to a maximum of 25 adults. Tickets are $20 per person and are available in advance at Perth Museum Visitor Info Centre 613 267-1947. For more information see flyer.

    Monday, June 29, 2015

    Broccoli for Thanksgiving--Start Seeds NOW!

    If you wish to have broccoli for Thanksgiving dinner [Canadian] plant seeds last week of June, transplant August long weekend and harvest in October. If buying brassica seedlings at a nursery in July or  August be sure to check that they are young vigorous growing plants. Do not purchase if they look stunted as they will not produce.
    Kale: harvest bottom leaves, leaving the crown. You will be able to harvest till mid October or longer.  Cool [frost] weather enhances the taste.

    Monday, June 15, 2015

    Cut Flowers--Keep them Blooming

    Cut flower arrangements bring summer indoors.  How can you keep them looking good longer?  Read more

    Sunday, May 31, 2015

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2015

    Beneficial Insects and Pollinators are essential to Vegetable Gardeners.  They help keep the bad bugs away and do all the hard work in turning a vegetable seed into a delicious fruit or vegetable.  To learn more about attracting these hard workers to your garden Read More.

    Sunday, June 1, 2014

    Edible Garden Newsletter June 2014

    June 2014 issue of the Edible Garden has a helpful article on Controlling Pests.  It also details Flowers you can add to your dinner plate.

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