Weeding to be done

Note from Steve:

(One of our volunteers) has the east sector done, however the west sector of the
annual and perennial demo needs some work. With many of you needing
hours, I would suggest some time working from the rose planting back
to the sign ( working west).

Master Gardeners only

There will be a meeting of the Crawford County Master Gardeners on Thursday, Aug 28 at the courthouse at 7:00. The purpose of the meeting is to demonstrate how to sign up for and post a blog entry.

Local Event August 14

The Crawford County Master Gardeners will be hosting a Horticultural Twilight Tour at Unger Farm on August 14 at 7:00 p.m. The farm has demonstration plantings of disease resistant fruit trees, a vegetable garden, and many annuals and perennials in bloom. Master Gardeners and Ohio State University Extension personnel will be on hand to present topics of interest to local gardeners and to answer questions. Some of the topics covered will be Japanese beetle control, troubleshooting apple and peach production, raspberries and blackberries, composting, herb garden, annual and perennial flowers, and the potential community garden being planned for next year. The program is free and open to the public. Contact the Extension office at 419-562-8731 for more information.

Piketon

PIKETON, Ohio ­ Discover the latest research on fruits, vegetables, flowers and more at the Horticulture Field Day at the Ohio State University South Centers at Piketon, 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 14.

Specialists from the Centers will share their latest horticultural research results, including on wine grapes, blueberry pruning, trickle irrigation, edible landscape gardens and strawberry plug plant propagation.

Speaking will be Brad Bergefurd, horticulture specialist; Maurus Brown, small fruits specialist; and Shawn Wright, horticulture specialist. Admission costs $5, with pre-registration encouraged by Tuesday, Aug. 12.

Dinner is included. RSVP to Julie Strawser, (740) 289-2071 or (800) 297-2072, ext. 223, or strawser.35@osu.edu.

The Centers are at 1864 Shyville Road (State Route 93). Take State Route 32 to State Route 93 south about three miles, and find the main office on the left.Ohio State University Extension and Ohio State’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) are the event’s sponsors.

The program begins with wagon tours of the research plots followed by dinner and classroom-style research presentations.

OARDC and OSU Extension are the research and outreach arms, respectively, of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

New features

I added a link to the Scaffolds Fruit Journal published by Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station to the "Recommended links" box below. The article in the July 7 issue on beneficial insects is especially good.

There's another new link in that box to the Buckeye Yard and Gardening line.

I've also added a link at the top of the page for an RSS feed if your browser or other software supports it - you can get notification of new posts.

If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll also see that our blog now accepts an RSS feed from Ohio Master Gardeners - so we can get news articles published through OSU Master Gardener program right here.

Chadwick Arboretum Event

Area residents are invited to stop and smell the roses -- and everything else at The Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens Open House, on Sunday, July 20, from 2-5 p.m.

The open house is free to families, homeowners or anyone interested in getting an up-close look at the colorful perennial gardens and extensive annual trials in the gardens. The gardens are located in front of Howlett Hall, 2001 Fyffe Court, just east of Rt. 315, at Fyffe Court and Woody Hayes Drive. Parking in adjacent lots is free.

Highlights of the open house include:

Guided tours of the gardens and the nearby Ornamental Plant Germplasm
Center.

Central Ohio Hosta Society plant auction.

Franklin County Master Gardeners diagnostic table.

Music and children's activities.

Idnat, a 10th century storyteller and herbalist.

Artists from the Worthington Area Art League.

Gretchen's Garden Store.

Free root beer floats.

In addition, garden tools will be sharpened and cleaned for nominal fee by Sharpening on Site

For more information or directions, see the Chadwick Arboretum Web site at
<http://www.chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/>http://www.chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/.
The Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens are part of Ohio State's
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

What's blooming at Unger Farm

My husband and I stopped by Unger Farm on our way through Bucyrus on Wednesday, so I could show him the volunteer work the Master Gardeners have been doing on the demonstration plots there.

We were very careful to follow Steve's warning to "stay out of the garden when it's wet" by sticking to grassy or mulched areas.

Mid-summer blooming flowers such as this echinacea are glorious now. Many of the plants at the farm are labeled as to variety. There is also a kiosk with flyers displaying the named varieties of the perennial plants at the farm.



Can you name the plants in the photos below?
Feel free to leave comments on the blog.































Here is our demonstration vegetable garden. There are several tomato varieties, and cole crops such as cabbage, broccoli, and swiss chard.




The orchard has several varieties of disease resistant apples. Two that are especially recommended are Redfree and Gold Rush.


















There are several varieties of annual flowers near the road.












There are also many perennial flowers.

There is a culinary herb garden with several out-of-the ordinary herbs.

Meeting Wednesday

6:00 pm at the Farm

to clean annual and perennial plantings, discuss service assignments/hours, (training requirements for those not complete), the community garden and our county fair effort as well as Horticulture at Unger program in August.

I won't be able to be there- someone please email me with updates!

OSU to Host Master Gardener Field Day July 20

Featuring talks, tours and demonstrations on growing backyard vegetables and more, the program takes place at the Franklin County Master Gardener Vegetable Varieties Trial Garden, part of Ohio State’s Waterman Agriculture and Natural Resources Lab, 2490 Carmack Road.

For more information see the OSU web site at http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/story.php?id=4713