Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter
The Watering Can
V O L U M E
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
Coordinators
2
Corner
Bay-Wise
2
QA MG News
3
Demo Gardens
4
Grow It Eat It
5
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I S S U E
7
7
Picnic Photos
7
Educational
Opportunities
8
Volunteer
Opportunities
9
Book Review
9
Calendar
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July Meeting
“My Favorite Gardening Tools”
Wednesday, July 18th, 11:30am
and many more at the July monthly meeting, as
MG Joe Jelich presents
“My Favorite Gardening
Tools.”
County Fair Booth 6
Schedule
MG Monthly
Meetings
J U L Y
Wednesday, July 18
9:30 to 11:30 am at
What are these tools?
Tilghman Terrace
How can you use them
in the garden? Find (Directions on page 10)
out about these tools
MG of the Month: Vida Morley
Vida has been with the
program since 2004. As a
co-chair of the Bay-Wise
Committee, Vida organizes visits north of Centreville in Queen Anne’s and
Kent County.
This month Vida organized the annual MG pic-
nic, bringing her talent
and creativity to bear as
she recruited volunteers
to arrange flower bouquets for the tables (all
lovely!), stories, and horticultural quizzes. See
page 9 for one. Thanks
for all you do, Vida!
Coordinator’s Corner
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We hope everyone is making it through the heat wave, storms and
power outages without damage, and getting some of the welcome
rain that has come from time to time.
Master Gardener
Coordinator - who will
wear the hat next?
The search for a new Coordinator is moving right along. Some Master Gardeners joined Extension staff for candidate interviews in
June. Stay tuned for further developments.
In the meantime, we are proud of the volunteers who continue to
keep the program up and running as the search is underway!
Thanks to Vida Morley for organizing and hosting the Annual MG Picnic, Debbie Pusey for spearheading the garden at 4H Park, and all the volunteers who helped (see
article later in this issue), Nick Stoer and Julie Tompkins for
hosting Bay-Wise information in their gardens during the
KIFA tour, Karen Wimsatt for initiating the MG presence at
Thanks To:
the growing Kent Island Farmers Market, Sabine Harvey for
coordinating Queen Anne’s County Fair volunteers.
As always, thanks is due to all of you, but if we missed a deserved thank you or if you
wish to express your appreciation to someone, please let Sabine Harvey or Carol Jelich know and it shall be acknowledged in the next newsletter.
Bay-Wise
UPDATE YOUR
CONTACT INFO!
Please send any changes
to Pat Bowell at
bowell74@verizon.net,
505 Railroad Ave,
Suite 4,
Centreville, MD 21617
or fax: (410) 758-3687
THE
The Bay-Wise Committee
The Committee will meet next after the regumet on May 20th. They relar MG meeting on July 18th at Tilghman Terviewed the procedure for
race. To join the Committee or schedule a
managing requests for conBay-Wise visit to your garden, contact Jane
sultation or certification visChambers, Kate Greer, or Vida Morley, Bayits, and identified team leadWise committee co-chairs.
ers who will be scheduling
and conducting Bay-Wise visits. Nine visits are to be
scheduled so far. The Master Island on June 10 and 11 was effective, and
we hope to do it again next year.
Gardener presence at the
—Kate Greer
KIFA tour of gardens on Kent
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QAC MG News:
The following Master Gardeners have accepted responsibilities to keep the program going until a new coordinator is
hired. Please contact them if you have questions/info about these areas and
keep dialog flowing!
MG Meetings: At present, no one has agreed to lead. Meeting times are set in
Centreville at Tilghman Terrace (no August due to fair) July 18, Sept 19, Oct 17,
Nov 14 from 9:30-11:30. The Extension office has audiovisual equipment available if requested ahead of time. Since no one has come forward the Steering
Committee decided that hostesses for the monthly meetings would be responsible for picking up audiovisual equipment and the hostess box.
Holiday Luncheon: Linda Doub and Karen Wimsatt. Wednesday, December
12th. Place TBD. To help with planning contact Linda at lindadoub@gmail.com
Newsletter compilation: Sabine Harvey greenbien@hotmail.com and Carol
Jelich carol.jelich@gmail.com
Newsletter distribution: the Extension office—Sheila Shorter Dorsey sshorter@umd.edu or Sue Wolff swolff@umd.edu. 410 758-0166.
Publicity: The steering committee decided that each program chair would be
responsible for their own publicity.
Bay-Wise: Kate Greer, Jane Chambers, and Vida Morley.
Grow It Eat It: Linda Doub
MG Interns: Karen Wimsatt and Linda Doub
A Garden Affair: Judy Geggis and Genie Fitzgerald
Volunteer Hours Entry: Pat Bowell. Volunteer hour forms can be sent to the
Extension Office or directly to Pat at bowell74@verizon.net
Liaison to State Office: Sabine Harvey has volunteered to attend MG State Coordinators meeting and state strategic meetings if possible. Anyone may contact
State Coordinator Jon Traunfeld, jont@umd.edu or Assistant SC, Robin Hessey,
rmhessey@umd.edu at 410-531-5556.
Steering Committee
Members:
John Ittu
johnittu@gmail.com
Linda & Jack Doub
lindadoub@gmail.com or
jkdoub@gmail.com
Sabine Harvey
greenbien@hotmail.com
Carol Jelich
carol.jelich@gmail.com
Debbie Pusey
debbiepusey@verizon.net
Jane Chambers
Earljane@atlanticbb.net
Kate Greer
Kway2bay@aol.com
Vida Morley
vidamorley@verizon.net
Jim Persels
jpersels@yahoo.com
Karen Wimsatt
Jimandkaren.wimsatt@gmail.com
Pat Bowell
Bowell74@verizon.net
Susan Seth
Seths46@verizon.ent
Extension Advisory Council (lets Extension office know what MG program needs are)
Linda Doub, Jim Persels, and Jack Doub
2012 Training Coordination: will be at WREC on Fridays from September 7th-November 2nd from 9-3. Linda Doub
is the contact: lindadoub@gmail.com, 410 827-8613
3rd Thursday Centreville Demonstration Garden Cleanups will continue. Debbie Pusey will advise as to time and
location. debbiepusey@verizon.net, 410 758-8623
Plant Clinics
Alternate Saturdays At Chestertown Farmers Market: Sabine Harvey, greenbien@hotmail.com, 410- 810-3890. See volunteer page for details. Kent Island Farmers Market: Karen Wimsatt, jimandkaren.wimsatt@gmail.com , Thursdays
from 3 to 6:30 pm on June 14th, July 12th, August 16th and September 13th.
ANYONE MAY SEND MESSAGES TO THE WHOLE GROUP BY SENDING TO QACMG@googlegroups.com . Please
direct questions or email address changes to Marty Appel, list serve manager. kitraveler@yahoo.com, 410643-4351.
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Demonstration Garden Clean-up
Submitted by Debbie Pusey
New Garden at the 4-H Park
Smith. It truly was a team effort.
A HUGE THANK-YOU to Joe Jelich and
Jim Persels who not only did most of the
digging while we planned the plantings,
but also were able to remove the big butterfly bush that was dominating the center of the bed!
Our next step is to have the garden BayWise certified. Our goal is to have this
done before the fair so that we can have
a sign there identifying this garden as
Bay-Wise friendly and use it as an educational tool as part of our exhibit.
In March, Rachel negotiated with the
county for a better location for our MG
exhibit at the QA County Fair in August.
In return, we promised to restore the
raised bed by the flag poles in order to
have our booth located there for no fee.
We fulfilled that promise this month. The
bed was completed in a two step process.
The first week we dug all of the existing
dead vegetation, turned over the soil to
get it somewhat ready for planting and
developed a tentative plan for planting.
The second week, we planted. With almost no budget to work with, a request
was sent out for donated plants.
Thank you to Margaret Carter, Cass
Smith, Judy Conley (and Unity Gardens)
and the QAC greenhouse for their donations. We had no problem filling our 12 X
12 foot bed!
Thank you to all those who helped make
this effort a success: Margaret Carter,
Judy Conley, Kit Foster, Judy Geggis, Jackie Kelly, Joe Jelich, Charlotte Kurst, Fred
Kurst, Jim Persels, Susan Seth and Cass
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If you have not already done so, be sure
to sign up to volunteer at the Fair; see
schedule on page 6.
Demo Garden Schedule:
Thursday, July 19th: Centreville
Library Rain garden at 9 am
Thursday, August 16th: Centreville
Library Rain garden at 9 am
Tidbits…..
The hypertufa class offered by Rachel Melvin and Carol Jelich will be
held in September rather than August. Details will be in the next
newsletter.
Drill Baby Drill! Thanks to Jim
Persels for submitting a cadence call
we could use for our MG Drill Team
to march in parades, with appropriate garden tools and GIEI seed packets to hand out. Contact Carol Jelich
if you want to join the team GO
MG’S!
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Grow It Eat It
Planting for a Fall Crop!!
These extreme temperatures make it hard to think
about fall, but if you want to harvest cool weather
crops in the fall, this would be the time to start planning and sowing. Cabbages and Brussels Sprouts take
a long time to mature, so now is the time to start
seeds in flats. Keep the flats out of the heat of the afternoon sun and cover them with floating row cover
to keep pest out of your seedlings.
Extreme Temperatures
These hot days are really hard on your plants. Obviously, they are going to need a lot more water than
usual. However, the more we water, the more nutrients will wash away. You may actually find that your
tomatoes are developing blossom end rot in midseason. Your plants may greatly benefit from some
mid-season feeding.
Your tomatoes, peppers and lima beans may have developed abundant flowers, but then no fruit develops.
Temperatures in the upper 90’s will simply kill the
pollen. There is really nothing you can do. When the
temperatures come down and new flowers develop,
fruit will start to grow again.
July
Sow heat-tolerant greens like Swiss chard, Malabar spinach, mustard greens and lettuce cultivars
like ‘Red Sails’, ‘Deer Tongue’ and ‘Jericho’. Planting in semi-shade, or covering with a shade cloth
or row cover helps reduce heat stress in midsummer.
Sow seeds of broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, beets
and other fall crops in late July.
Sow seeds of squash, beans and cucumbers
through the end of July.
Monitor squash and pumpkin vines for squash
vine borers. If leaves are wilting, or you see holes
in the lower stems, with sawdust-like fresh, or
droppings around the holes, slit the stem above
the hole and with a razor and remove the larva.
Then mound soil around the injured stem.
If tomatoes or peppers develop blossom-end rot,
remove injured fruits, water plants well, and
mulch to conserve soil moisture. Consistent wa-
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tering and adequate calcium can prevent this
disorder.
Harvest onions when tops die back; let them dry
in the garden after digging them up, or tie the
stems together and hang them up in a garage or
attic with good air circulation. Store onions in a
cool, dry place.
Dig up garlic when the tops yellow and die; let
dry in the sun, then store in an airy place before
braiding, or storing in mesh bags, and hanging in
a dry place.
Cut back herbs to keep them bushy and productive.
August
Plant a late crop of basil, cilantro, and dill.
Plant a last crop of snap beans the first week
of Au-gust.
Plant cool season crops, including spinach,
lettuce, carrots, beets, broccoli, cauliflower,
Chinese cabbage, turnips, kale and mustard.
Keep seedlings moist and mulched.
Order garlic, walking onions, and shallots for
fall planting.
Harvest leaves of herbs before they flower.
Pick individually, and dry indoors, or hang the
stems a dry, semi-shady room. Store dry
leaves in air-tight jars. Fresh basil leaves
freeze well in plastic bags that can be sealed.
Keep weeding and watering.
Answers to “Name That Seed” on page 9:
1-shallot 2- Swiss chard 3-bean 4- winter squash
5-Edamame soy bean 6-beet 7-kale
Good Job!
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COUNTY FAIR — SIGN UP NOW!
Below is the schedule for the QAC Fair. As you can see,
there are still plenty of opportunities to help out.
Thanks to our volunteers’ hard work on the new planting bed on the Fairgrounds, we will have a new, more
prominent location for our booth this year. So it is
more important than ever that that we fill all our time
slots. Please select your time from the chart below, and let Sabine Harvey know when you would be able to help out. Hope to
see you at the Fair!If you need encouragement: the Fair is really quite an event. So many things to see, both indoors (crafts,
crops, flowers, other 4-H projects) as well as outdoors
(animals), not to mention entertainment and good food!
MG BOOTH AT Queen Anne’s County Fair
August 6th – 12th
Monday, August 6th
Name
Contact Info
Before noon
Set up
Kit Foster
Thursday, August 9th (Pork BBQ)
Name
4:30-6:30 Susan Seth
827-7459
Debbie Pusey
Contact info
758-2390
758-8623
6:30-8:30
4:30-6:30
Dick Crane
778-8183
Friday, August 10th (Beef BBQ)
Name
6:30-8:30
Contact Info
4:30-6:30 Jim Persels
Tuesday, August 7th (Crab Cake Dinner)
4:30-6:30
Name
Sue D’Camera
Contact Info
758-4290
6:30-8:30
Pat Gannon
Kit Foster
827-8179
827-7459
Susan McRae
4:30-6:30
Sue D’Camera
6:30-8:30
827-7759
Gayle Jayne
Saturday, August 11th
Name
Contact Info
4:30-6:30
Wednesday, August 8th (Chicken BBQ)
Name
Jim Persels
Vida Morley
6:30-8:30 Joe and Carol Jelich
6:30-8:30
Contact Info
Sunday, August 12th , clean up before noon
Name
Contact Info
Joe Jelich
827-7759
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Date
Topic
Time
Place
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tools in the Garden
Speaker: MG Joe Jelich
9:30am to 11:30 am
Tilghman
Terrace
Wednesday, September 19,
2012
Beekeeping
Speaker: MG Dick Crane
9:30am to 11:30 am
Tilghman
Terrace
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Topic: ?
Speaker: ?
9:30am to 11:30 am
Tilghman
Terrace
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
* Week early due to Holiday*
Planning for 2013
9:30am to 11:30 am
Tilghman
Terrace
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
* Week early due to Holiday*
Holiday Luncheon
Place???
MG Picnic — Fun was had by all
Regional Extension Director Aly
Valentine thanks the Master Gardeners for their service.
Master Gardeners assembled at 4H
Park to enjoy the food and company
at the Annual MG Picnic. So many
delectable dishes to choose from!
MG Emeritus Barbara Vaughan is pleased
with the Lavender Meltaway cookies she
and Louise Shearer baked—they were
delicious! Recipe will be available at the
July meeting for anyone interested.
Photos by Karen Wimsatt, Jim Persells, and Louise Shearer
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Educational Opportunities
Plant Disease
PLANT DISEASES
Location: Montgomery County Extension, Derwood,
MD
Date and Time: Wed. Sept 5, 9:30-3:30
Registration Fee: $35; Registration Deadline: Aug. 29;
Instructor: Dave Clement, Ph.D., Extension Specialist, Plant Pathology;
Plant diseases often seem like exotic mysteries left up to the experts to solve. Well, guess what
- we MG’s can now begin to unravel some of these mysteries ourselves. In this course you’ll
learn all about the bacteria, fungi and viruses that cause plant problems. You’ll also learn
about their symptoms, cycles and controls.
Plant Identification and Taxonomy
PLANT ID/TAXONOMY
Location: Wye Research and Edu. Ctr.. Queen Anne’s County
124 Wye Narrows Dr., Queenstown, MD 21658 410-827-6202
Dates & Times: Thursdays Sept. 6, Sept. 13, Sept. 27, 2012; 9:30am12:30pm
Registration Fee: $35 plus text Registration Deadline: Aug. 29.
Instructor: Wanda MacLachlan, Area Extension Educator
The Plant ID/Taxonomy and Keying course is a very important basic tool for Master Gardeners in that it teaches all of the basics needed to identify woody plants in the landscape. Being
able to identify plants is the first step in knowing how to diagnose problems or give growing
advice.
We hope this short course will suit everyone's needs- whether you want to learn 200 plants,
20 plants, or just want to learn techniques to identify plants in the field. The course will be
made up of approximately 9 hours of class work with lots of hands-on practice and a field
walk. You will also receive a booklet of course materials.
Material to be covered will include the following:
Morphology- the study of the structure of external plant organs (e.g. leaf shapes).
Nomenclature- the systematic naming and classification of plants
Taxonomy- the general principles of classification
Keying- Using a dichotomous key to identify plants by specific characteristics
REGISTRATION FORMS can be found at: http://mastergardener.umd.edu/
AdvancedTraining/RegSpr2012.pdf, or pick one up at the a monthly meeting. Questions?
Contact Robin Hessey at rmhessey@umd.edu
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Volunteer Opportunities
Looking for a
Plant Waterer!
Stephanie Simpson
is looking for
someone to water
her plants while
she is gone for
some short trips. Anyone who is interested, please contact Stephanie,
ssimpson@macmaps.com
New Garden Affair Chair!!!!
The GA is looking for a new chair.
Please contact Susan Seth if you are
interested. Remember:
NO CHAIR = NO AFFAIR
Kent Island Farmer's
Market in August will be
the 16th to avoid conflict
with the Fair. Volunteers are needed from
3:30-6:30… or even for a half shift.
Contact Karen Wimsatt 410-643-7404
or jimandkaren.wimsatt@gmail.com.
Also, Karen will have a sign up sheet at
the
monthly meeting in July.
Hostesses for Monthly Meetings: We
are still looking for a few hostess/
hostesses for the MG Monthly meetings
in July, Aug and Sept.
We Made a Garden
By Margery Fish
One of the Modern Library Gardening Series, edited by Michael Pollan
Reviewed by MG Linda Goldkrantz
Renowned
horticulturalist
Margery Fish wasn’t always
independent. For much of her
marriage, she was literally under the green thumb of her
husband, Walter.
And yet,
you sense her love and respect for him, as they worked
side by side in their very
rocky, clay-filled garden.
With humor and candor, she
writes about how she learned
from him, acknowledged him
when he was right, and completely ignored him when he
was wrong….If only Kathryn
Hepburn and Henry Fonda
were around to make this into
a movie! (Reminiscent of On
Golden Pond.)
For those who want to read it
strictly as a gardening book…
have index cards handy. Interspersed in the memoir are
suggestions and facts and
practices, that benefit all of
Name That Seed
Vida Morley created several fun and educational quizzes for our entertainment at the
MG picnic in June. Here is one:
Imagine that your precocious grandchild
found the seed packets too fascinating, and
removed the seeds numbered at right. Can
you put the seeds back in the proper envelopes – without maiming the child?
Answers on page 5.
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us…even if they did love lawns.
(An oxymoron for us Master
Gardeners!)
They learn much by trial and
error, and teach us that it is o.k.
to make mistakes. Her point in
writing is that we can learn
from theirs.
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July 2012
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
3
4 Next year
we march!
5
6
7
8
9
10
11 Steering
Committee
Meeting,
12 Kent
Island Plant
Clinic
13
14Chester
town Plant
Clinic
15
16
17
18 Monthly
MG Meeting,
9:30
21 Demo
Garden,
C’ville
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28Chester
town Plant
Clinic
29
30
31
Tilghman Terrace
104 Tilghman Ave
Centreville, Md. 21617
From South of Centreville
Follow 213 N. into town. Turn right at first light
onto Water street
and **pass the PNC bank on your right. Tilghman Ave will be the next street on your right.
Turn right onto Tilghman Ave. Street parking is
available as well as in the back.
From North of Centreville
Follow 213 S. into town. Turn Left on E. Water
St. **Follow directions above.
Parking on street and in rear of building
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Directions to the monthly meeting!
Mon
6 QA Fair
13
20
27
Sun
5
12
19
26
28
21
14
7 QA Fair
Tue
29
22
15 NO Monthly
Meeting
30
23
16Demo Garden,
C’ville
Raingarden
KI Farmers
Market
9 QA Fair
2
1
8 QA Fair
Thu
Wed
August 2012
31
24
17
10 QA Fair
3
Fri
25
Chestertown
Plant Clinic
18
11 QA Fair
Chestertown
Plant Clinic
4
Sat
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August—No Newsletter
Deadline:
Friday, August 10th
University of Maryland Extension
505 Railroad Avenue, Suite 4
Centreville MD, 21617
Phone: (410) 758-0166
Fax: (410) 758-3687
http://queenannes.umd.edu/
QACMG Website:
http://queenannes.umd.edu/QACMG/
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University of Maryland Extension
Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's Counties
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