Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter
The Watering Can
INSIDE THIS
V O L U M E
ISSUE :
Coordinators
2
Corner
2011 Monthly
3
Meetings
September MG
3
Meeting
Holiday Luncheon
4
BMSB Class
4
Bay-Wise
5
CRC Soil Testing
5
Educational
Opportunities
6
Educational
Opportunities
7
Grow It Eat It
8
Quick & Thick
Tomato Sauce
9
Volunteer
Opportunities
10
MG Intern Classes
11
Calendar
12-13
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Master Gardener Booth at the Queen Anne’s
4-H Fair, A HUGE Success!
Queen
Anne’s
County
Master Gardener Volunteers
hosted their annual booth at
the Queen Anne’s County
4-H Fair in August. Master
Gardeners offered fair goers
a plethora of information on
cicada killers to bag worms
to stink bugs. Many fair
goers were able to observe
the life cycle of the black
swallowtail caterpillar, get
their picture taken with
their favorite pollinator or
stick a pin in a map of Queen
Anne’s County where they
Master Gardeners (from left to right) Bonnie Dixon, Byron
McAllister, Sarah Crane Johnson, and Betty McAtee had a
great time working the MG booth at the fair on Saturday,
August 13th.
had seen the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB). This year we were able
to see our contacts greatly increase from an average of 200 contacts in previous years to 440 this year! Way to go QAC Master Gardeners, keep up the
great service!
MG of the Month: Jim Persels
Jim Persels, a resident of
Centreville joined the Queen
Anne’s
County
Master
Gardeners with the Class of
2010. Since joining Jim has
jumped head first into
Master Gardener program
by
serving
on
many
committees, and helping
with various MG projects.
Thank you Jim for all
of your outstanding
service to the QAC
MG program. Keep
up the good work!
Coordinator’s Corner
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Rachel Melvin,
Master Gardener
Coordinator
UPDATE YOUR
Many of you may remember in last
month’s issue of the Watering Can, I
mentioned my dismay of no black swallowtail caterpillars despite countless efforts to attract them. Each morning I
would inspect my 4 ft high fennel to no
avail. However, on closer inspection of
the flower I found 3 caterpillars having
their breakfast. My sister in law was
nice enough to loan me her butterfly
house so that I could bring these little
caterpillars to the fair. If this wasn’t a
crowd pleaser I don’t know what was.
We had people of all ages coming up to
see what was in our little butterfly
house.
They even made a special
appearance at the Chestertown Farmers
Market “Ask a Master Gardener” booth.
Sabine mentioned that everyone was
amazed to learn
about the life
cycle of a butterfly. Thankfully, all
three made into the chrysalis state
and I even added to the “stock”
unknowingly when I was picking
more food for them. I had one very
pretty male emerge on Sunday after
the storm. I am still waiting for the
others. I have been told the colder
weather
may
slow
things down
a bit. But it
has been a
very exciting process
to watch!
Submitted by Julie Tompkins,
with additions by Neenah
CONTACT INFO!
Please send any changes
to Rachel Melvin at
rmelvin1@umd.edu,
505 Railroad Ave,
Suite 4,
Centreville, MD 21617
or fax: (410) 758-3687
Linda Doub and Jack Doub for helping set up the booth for
the QAC 4-H Fair. Sue D’Camera, Judy Conley, Linda Doub,
Jack Doub, Carol Romano, Bonnie Conner, Jim Persels,
Naomi Buckalew, Kit Foster, Kate Greer, Betty McAtee, Bonnie Dixon, Carol Jelich, Joe
Jelich, Susan Seth, David Taylor, Gayle Jayne, Denise Miller, Sarah Johnson, Byron
McAllister and Anne Wake for helping with the booth at the QAC 4-H Fair. Jack
Doub for helping take down the booth at the 4-H fair. Jim Persels, Dick Crane,
Susan McRae, Genie Fitzgerald, Janet Christensen-Lewis and Sabine Harvey for
helping with the Plant Clinic Booth at the Chestertown Farmers Market. 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 Rachel know and it shall be acknowledged in the next newsletter.
Thanks To:
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Date
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
* Week early due to Holiday*
Topic
Orchids
Time
9:30am to 11:30 am
Bring One Get One,
Bring Two Get Two
Planning 2012
9:30am to 11:30 am
Holiday Luncheon
11:30 to 2 ish
September 21st Meeting:
Orchidaceae usually refers to the Orchid family, an
extensively diverse and widespread family of monocots.
Orchids occur in almost every habitat excluding glaciers.
Worldwide the greatest occurrence of orchids can be found
in the tropics, mostly Asia, South America and Central America. Throughout North America there are around 20 to 26
genera of orchids.
Our Wednesday, September 21st meeting will be
taught by avid orchid enthusiast Roger Cole who will focus
on the many varieties of orchids that can be grown and how
to care for these orchids. This meeting will be held at Arbec
Orchids Greenhouse in Queen Anne, MD. The tour will start
at 9:30. Car pooling is highly suggested and a car pooling
group will be leaving the extension office promptly at 8:50
am. Please let Rachel know if you are interested/willing to
car pool. Space will be limited to this meeting so please
let Rachel (email: rmelvin1@umd.edu or 410-758-0166)
know by Wednesday, September 14th if you will be attending.
Beep Beep ….
All Aboard
9:30am to 11:30 am
Place
Arbec’s Greenhouse
See Below
Tilghman
Terrace
Tilghman
Terrace
SEE Page 4!!!!
Sign Up Today!
Space is limited,
register by
Wednesday,
September 14th
Directions to Arbec’s
Greenhouse
13945 Cherry Lane
Queen Anne, Md 21657
From the Extension Office: Head
southeast on MD 304 for 7.4 miles.
Turn right onto Mason Branch road,
continue on Mason Branch Rd for 1.6
miles. Turn right onto Cherry Lane go
1.1 miles. Arbec Greenhouse driveway
will be on the left between two rows of
trees. Proceed up the driveway and
the greenhouse will be located with
the house on the right.
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At Molly’s Inn in Galena, MD
$ 22 per person
(includes tax & gratuity)
Cash Bar
Save the Date:
Wednesday, December 14th
At 11:30 a.m.
Choice of Entrées:
Broiled Crab Cake with Wild Rice and Pecans
or
Grilled Vegetable Ravioli in Garlic Oil with Roasted
Red Peppers & Medley of Seasonal Vegetables
Salad:
Wild Orchard Salad: Sliced Apples, Blackberries,
Strawberries, Dried Cranberries, Candied Chestnuts, Crumbled Farmer's Cheese, Mixed Greens,
Wild Berry-Honey Vinaigrette
Dessert:
Brownie Sundae served with coffee & tea
RSVP due by Thursday, November 23rd
What’s All the Stink About?
Don’t forget about Stink Bug
classes being held on:
Monday, September 12th from
6 to 7:30pm at the Free Library in Stevensville
And
Wednesday, September 21st
from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Free
Library in Centreville
All classes are free and open to the
public
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Team strikes AGAIN!!!
The Queen Anne’s County Master
Gardner Bay-Wise Team certified
one more Queen Anne’s county property as being Bay-Wise on Wednesday,
August 24th. The team was lead by
Bay-Wise Master Gardener Jane
Chambers and was accompanied by BayWise Master Gardeners Vida Morley,
Kate Greer, Annie Ittu and Carol Romano.
Master Gardeners stood proudly with homeowner Lillian Taillon
and her Bay-Wise sign. Pictured Left to Right MG Vida Morley,
Lillian Taillon (homeowner), MG Jane Chambers, MG Annie Ittu,
MG Carol Romano, MG Kate Greer (not pictured)
Our next Bay-Wise meeting
will be on
Wednesday, October 19th at
12pm at the Extension Office
A healthy watershed starts with healthy soil
FREE SOIL TESTING for residents of
the Corsica River Watershed
September 12th to September 26th
The Corsica River Conservancy (CRC) and the University of Maryland Extension-Queen Anne’s County are offering free soil tests to the first 50 Corsica
River Watershed residents. To pick up your free soil test kit contact Rachel Melvin, Horticulture
Educator at (410)758-0166
How to take a soil sample:
Sample many areas of your yard
3” deep for Turf
Mix together in a clean bucket
Remove all rocks, debris & plant material
Air dry Sample
1 to 2 cups of soil
Bring Sample into UME Office by September
26th
Any additional sample will cost $13
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Educational Opportunities
MNPS Annual Fall Conference
2011: Saturday and Sunday,
September 24th & 25th at the College
of Southern Maryland. Cost: $55
member, $65 non member. For
more information http://
www.mdflora.org/ or contact
Maryland Native Plant Society
P.O. Box 4877 Silver Spring, MD
20914
Akins Arboretum:
September 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011- Nature as Muse from 10:00 am - 12:00
pm Cost: Free with admission
Saturday, September 10, 2011 Migration Bird Walk from 7:30 am - 9:00
am Cost: Free with admission. Admission ($5 adults, $3 students ages 618) may be paid the day of the program. Admission is always free for
members.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Eating Seasonally from 1:00 pm - 2:30
pm Fee: $15 members, $20 general
public
Chanticleer Garden Bus Trip Thursday, September 22, 2011 from 8:00
am - 5:30 pm Fee: $95 members,
$120 general public
Monday, September 26, 2011 Exploring Nature and Five Movements of
Life through Writing, Reflection, and
Community from 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Fee: $25 members, $30 general public
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Forest
Ecology for Gardeners from 1:00 pm 3:00 pm Fee: $15 members, $20 general public per program; $35 members, $45 general public for all three
programs in the series
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Adventures in Plant Propagation from 10:00
am - 12:00 pm $15 members, $20
general public
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 describe
Your Forest from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Fee: $15 members, $20 general public
per program; $35 members, $45 general public for all three programs in the
series
Thursday, October 13, 2011 Woodland
Native Plants from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Fee: $15 members, $20 general public
per program; $35 members, $45 general public for all three programs in the
series
Friday, October 21, 2011 Mammals of
the Arboretum Walk from 10:00 am 11:30 pm Free with admission. Admission ($5 adults, $3 students ages 6-18,
free for members) may be paid the day
of the program.
Friday, October 21, 2011 Mushrooms
and More from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
$125 members, $155 general public
Sunday, October 23, 2011 Foraging
from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm pm Fee: $15
members, $20 general public
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Clyburn
Arboretum and Howard Peters
Rawlings Conservatory Bus Trip from
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Fee: $85 members,
$105 general public
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Macro and
Close-up Photography from 8:00 am 12:00 pm Note: Bring ALL photo equipment, including a digital memory card,
extra batteries, and camera manual. A
tripod is optional but is highly recommended. While point-and-shoot cameras are welcome, please be reminded
that these cameras have limited options
but can work quite well for close-ups.
$35 members, $45 general public
To register for classes
www.adkinsarboretum.org or call
410.634.2847, ext. 0
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Now open to the Queen Anne;’s County
Master Gardeners (and the public) !!!
Register today by phone, mail, or online!
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October
Grow It Eat It
Continue to dig potatoes and to harvest
pumpkins and winter squashes
September
Plant cover crops of oats, winter rye
and crimson clover through the middle
of October, in any empty beds, to
improve soil.
Take a soil test, if you did not earlier in
the year.
Plant garlic from Sept. 15 through
November 1.
If winter squashes and pumpkins are
full-sized and the rinds are hardened,
cut them from the vine and store in a
cool location (e.g. basement or porch).
Rub rind thoroughly with a weak,
bleach solution- 10%. This will help
prevent fruit rots.
Dig potatoes after foliage dies back. Let
them lie on the ground a few hours,
then store, unwashed, in a cool (35 to
40º F.), dark location.
Harvest green tomatoes, and put in a
paper bag with an apple or banana, to
encourage ripening. Or hang the plant
upside down, in a cool, dry room, out
of the sun, and fruits will ripen.
Carrots, turnips and parsnips may be
over-wintered by covering the bed
with a deep straw or leaf mulch. Harvest, as needed.
Plant lettuce, spinach, radishes and
corn salad through the middle of the
month. Protect with row covers or a
cold frame.
Dig up small herb plants, pot them in
soil-less mix and bring them indoors
for winter use. A sunny window, or
cool, white fluorescent lights will help
keep them productive. Keep them
away from excessive heat or drafts,
and turn down the thermostat at night.
Build new garden beds by sheet mulching: cut grass low, cover with sections
of newspaper, then with layers of organic matter, such as compost, leaves,
garden clippings, kitchen scraps; top
with a thick layer of straw or other
mulch.
Start collecting newspaper, and paper
bags for sheet mulching in the spring.
Butternut Squash Bake
Submitted by MG Linda Doub
1/3 c. butter
3/4 c. sugar
2 eggs
2/3 c. evaporated milk or cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
3 c. mashed butternut squash
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. chopped pecans
1/4 c. flour
3 T. melted butter
Cream butter & sugar. Beat in eggs, milk, vanilla & spice. Stir in squash.
Pour into a butter casserole. Combine remaining ingredients and sprinkle over casserole. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
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Tomato Patch: Ginny’s Thick & Quick Tomato Sauce
Taken from the Grow It Eat It Blog http://groweat.blogspot.com/
Written by: Bob Nixon
My tomato sauces for years were, well, unremarkable. To be honest, sometimes I thought they were more like tomato
juice than sauce. I read magazine and newspaper articles and answers to Frequently Asked Questions in my quest for
recipes and how-to-do-it tips that would give me a reasonable amount of thick sauce in a reasonable amount of time. I
blanched and peeled and cooked. I put raw tomatoes in the blender and then tried to separate thick from thin. I cooked
tomatoes and put them through our food mill and then cooked them some more. The result usually was a sauce so thin
that it barely stained the pasta through which it ran to the plate. Saucy friends winked and told us how to resolve this
dilemma: add a can of store-bought tomato paste to thicken the thin when we used it. This year, I vowed to ―get it
right.‖ I cooked, milled, cooked, and simmered two batches for more than three hours last month. One batch yielded
three cups and the other four of thin sauce. I shook my head and said to myself, ―They’re still too juicy. I should have
simmered them another hour or two.‖
Enough of this culinary futility, I thought. Five hours of work that yields four cups of thin sauce isn’t reasonable. The
greater bargains in time, effort, and thickness seemed to sit in bottles on shelves of the pasta aisle of our local Giant Food
store. So I surrendered, and when friends visited last weekend, I gave a whole bucket plus a plastic grocery-store bag of
paste tomatoes to Ginny B., who said she wanted to make sauce. A day or so later she called to thank me for the tomatoes. ―How many cups did you get?‖ I asked, thinking she might have gotten ten or
twelve.―Twenty-nine,‖ she replied, ―and they’re all in the freezer.‖ ―Twenty-nine?‖ I couldn’t believe it. ―Were they juicy like the sauce I make?‖ ―No, it was thick.‖ ―What’s your secret?‖
Ginny told me how she makes her thick and quick tomato sauce, and I’ve now made three
batches. I have to admit that I’m back in the tomato sauce business again. I worked on the third
batch on Labor Day morning. Here’s how I did it: I started with about a half bucket of large paste
tomatoes—Big Mamas and Super Marzanos—and a quarter colander of Juliets, a small paste- or
Roma-type tomato usually used for snacking. I washed them, cored them, gouged out the gel and
seeds with my thumb, cut off any damaged or otherwise objectionable parts, cut the good stuff into
chunks, and filled a six-quart pan nearly to the top. I brought the tomatoes to slow boil and then
simmered them for about 50 minutes. Then I used a measuring cup to put two-cup batches into our
blender and pressed ―blend‖ to break down all the remaining tomato parts. The measuring cup
helped keep things fairly neat and gave me an idea of how much sauce I’d made. While I was
blending the tomatoes, I sautéed an onion and four or five garlic cloves in olive oil in another large
pan. As I finished blending each small batch of tomatoes, I added them to the simmering onion-garlic mix. When I had
all the tomatoes in the second pot, I added some salt and simmered the sauce for another 20 minutes. Just three or four
minutes from the end of the cooking time, I added a handful of thinly sliced basil from our garden. The sauce was beautiful, thick, and delicious. It filled three three-cup freezer containers. I spent about an hour preparing the tomatoes and
another hour for the cooking. Bottom line: I had doubled the amount of thick sauce in less than half the time. All things
considered, I think I’ll call this sauce recipe ―Ginny’s Thick & Quick Tomato Sauce.‖ Thank
you, Ginny. I’ve adapted the procedure from Ginny’s explanation, and if you try to make
sauce this way, adapt my outline to your taste and the way you think you want your sauce to
taste. Ginny, for example, doesn’t remove all the seeds from the tomatoes. She sautés onion
and garlic at the beginning and then adds the fresh tomatoes for cooking. She adds leaves
from a couple of sprigs of thyme for additional herbal kick. She adds fresh basil at the very
end, just as she removes turns off the heat. What tips do you suggest to make this thick-andquick tomato sauce even better ?
Grow It Eat It Planning meeting for 2012 set for
Monday, November 14th at 9:30 am at the Extension Office
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Volunteer Opportunities
Butterfly Garden at Eastern Neck Wildlife
Refuge:
Until further notice, the Butterfly
Garden, Bayview Butterfly Trail, and Bunkhouse access are CLOSED due to Wind Turbine
Damage. The Wind Turbine (aka: 'Windmill')
dropped a part into the Bunkhouse lawn today
and presents a falling debris hazzard until it can
be fixed. As a result, the entire area mentioned
above is closed. You will see the closure notice on
the Bayview Road. I know that many of you have
plans to work in the garden on Thursday and refuge staff is working hard to have this fixed by
then. To see if the windmill has been fixed and
the closed area opened, please contact Cindy
on Wednesday between 7:30am and 4:00 pm
at her refuge cell phone number, 410-4300396, or at the refuge officenumber, (410)
639-7056.
Victory Garden hits 500 lbs!!
Demo Gardens in Centreville:
September 15–Library Rain Garden
at 9:00
October 20 – Millstream at 9:30
November 17 –Library Rain Garden
at 9:30
The locations may change if we feel one
garden or the other needs more or less
attention.
St. Martins Garden : The Garden at St.
Martin’s is in it’s final sessions. If you
would to help put the garden to bed
on Saturday, October 22nd at 10:30 am
please let Bonnie Conner know Bonjoe3@yahoo.com
Despite the very challenging
weather, the Victory Garden at
Kent County Middle School has been producing veggies quite well. In fact, this week
we harvested enough to push us over 500 lbs. One of the highlights was digging up our potatoes.
Would you believe that 5 lbs of seed potatoes magically turned into 132 lbs of food? Even the adults
were in aw. Of course, there have been challenges and failures. For some bizarre reason two entire
beds of beans never germinated, the cucumbers are not doing great (yet in my own garden I have
the best harvest I have ever had) and the squirrels are rather destructive. They seem to have a preference for two of our beautiful heirloom tomatoes (Black Krim and Mr. Stripey). In fact, between the
weather and the wildlife, the yield of these heirlooms has been pitiful. In comparison, Celebrity Hybrid, Early Pick and Better Boy have once again proven to be reliable tomatoes. On August 11, we
had a lovely potluck at the garden. Garden volunteers, community members, people from Washington College and a group from Denton came to see the garden and share some great food. It was a
beautiful evening, low humidity and no rain. We are working on getting our fall crops planted; it is a
little challenging since the sweet potatoes and the watermelons are trying to take over the garden. In fact, it is a little scary how fast those vines are growing at the moment. We do need to
get some good crops growing because the garden will be providing produce for “Farm-Dinnerson-the-Shore”. Two amazing women organize these dinners that take place on farms in Kent and
QA’s County. The Victory Garden will be part of the events that are taking place at Lockbriar
Farms on October 21 and 22. The last 3 out of our 4 Monday evening maintenance events have
been rained out. For next year, I think I will add a maintenance time in the morning as well. The
growing season still has a few months to go; if you are looking for volunteer
hours and would like to help in the garden, please let me know. So if you happen
to be in the vicinity of the middle school in Chestertown consider paying a little
visit to the garden.
Submitted by MG Sabine Harvey
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The schedule is set, the speakers and hostesses are
confirmed and the interns are ready for the start of
Master Gardner Intern Training. Our training program will begin on Friday, September 9th, 2011 at
Chesapeake College in Wye Mills. The course is to
run 9 weeks, ending on Friday, November
4th. Classes will generally be held from 9 a.m. – 3
p.m. All classes will be held in the Todd Performing
Arts Center Building 11, room number 01. We have
also scheduled a few field trips for the interns.
Training Schedule:
September 9
9-11:30:
11:30-12:
12-2:
2-3:
September 16
9-11:30:
11:30-12:
12-3:
Orientation and UME Policy
Training – Rachel Melvin and
Heather Buritsch
Lunch
Basic Botany – Ginny Rosenkrantz
Grow It Eat It – Rachel Melvin
Entomology – Mike Raupp
Lunch
IPM/Beneficial Insect –
Paula Shrewsbury
**Field Trip on Monday, September 19th to
Environmental Concern, St. Michaels 9am to 12
September 23
9-11:30:
Weeds – Heather and Rachel
11:30-12:
Lunch
12-1:30:
Invasive Plants - Mark Scallion
1:30-3
Native Plants – Leslie Hunter-Cario
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September 30
9-11:30:
Plant Pathology –
Dave Clement
11:30-12:
Lunch
12-2:
Soils – Stu Schwartz
2-3:
Composting –John Ittu
**Field Trip on Monday, October 3rd to
Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely 10am to 12
October 7
9-11: Nevin Dawson—Trees
10:30-11:30: Plant Clinics – Sabine
Harvey
11:30-12:
Lunch
12:30: -3:30- Abiotics – Bob Stewart
October 14
9-11:30:
Ecology –
Sylvan Kaufman
11:30-12:
Lunch
12-1:30:
Bay-Friendly Turf –
Heather Buritsch
1:30-3:
Pruning –
Andrew Ristvey
October 21
9-11:30:
Intro to Bay-Wise
11:30-12:
Lunch
12-3:
Presentations
October 28
9-11:30:
Presentations
11:30-12:
Lunch
12-3:
Review
November 4 – Ag Center
9-12:
Final Exam
(Open Book & Notes)
12-2:
Luncheon
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September 2011
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
5 Extension Office
Closed
6
7 St. Martins Gar- 8
den 6pm
Fri
Sat
9 MG Intern
Class see page 7
10
Environmental Concern Plant Sale
12 Stink Bug Class 13
-Stevensville
Library 6 pm see
page 12
14
15 Demogarden16 MG Intern
Library Rain Garden Class see page 7
9am see page 13
17 Chestertown
Farmers Mkt
Booth 8am12pm; Corsica
River Awareness
Day 12 to 4pm;
Adkins Booth
10am to 12pm
Adkins Arboretum Plant Sale
19
20
21 MG Monthly
Meeting see page
5; Stink Bug
Class-Centreville
Library 6pm ; St.
Martins Garden
22
23 MG Intern
Class see page 7
26
27
28
29
30 MG Intern
Class see page 7
24
Upcoming Meetings and Trips
Friday, Sept 9th: MG Intern Class see page 7
Monday, Sept 12th: Stink Bug Class-Stevensville
Library 6 pm see page 12
Thursday, Sept 15th: Demogarden-Library Rain
Garden 9am see page 13
Friday, Sept 16th: MG Intern Class see page 7
Saturday, Sept 17th:
Chestertown Farmers Mkt Booth 8am-12pm
Corsica River Awareness Day 12 to 4pm
Adkins Arboretum Booth 10am to 12pm
Wednesday, Sept 21st:
MG Monthly Mtg see page 5
Stink Bug Class-Centreville Library 6pm
St. Martins Garden 6pm
Friday, Sept 23rd: MG Intern Class see page 7
Friday, Sept 31st: MG Intern Class see page 7
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Before you know it December will be
here, so get a head start and send in
those volunteer hours. Volunteer
hours can be handed in at monthly
meetings, mailed through snail mail
or sent via email to
rmelvin1@umd.edu. Volunteer log
forms can be found at
http://queenannes.umd.edu/QACMG/
MGResources.cfm
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Thu
Fri
Sat
7 MG Intern Class
see page 7
Wed
6
Tue
5
13
Mon
4
12
Sun
3
11
14 MG Intern Class 15
see page 7
1
2
10 Extension Office
Closed
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26
19 MG Meeting
Bay-Wise Meeting
27
20 Demogarden21 MG Intern Class 22 St. Martins
Millstream 9:30 am see page 7
Garden 10:30
see page 13
am
28 MG Intern Class 29
see page 7
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October Newsletter Deadline:
Monday, September 19th
Send submissions to Rachel:
rmelvin1@umd.edu
University of Maryland Extension
Joke of the Month…..
Q: Why did the tomato turn red?
A: Because he saw the
salad dressing
505 Railroad Avenue, Suite 4
Centreville MD, 21617
Phone: (410) 758-0166
Fax: (410) 758-3687
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QACMG Website:
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index.cfm
Master Gardener Coordinator,
Queen Anne’s County
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