Anne Arundel County Master Gardeners December, 2012 Volume 16, Issue 12 The Coordinator’s Corner Mike Ensor, Anne Arundel County Master Gardener Coordinator As the Holiday Season is among us and our gardens are somewhat at rest, we to need to take time to sit back with family and friends to relax and focus on what the true meaning of what this time of the year is all about. At this time of the year, I give thanks for the many blessings and natural beauties around us. I also want to thank each of our Master Gardeners and truly appreciate your dedica- tion, support, and time for helping to make our Anne Arundel Master Gardener Program a true success that shines across the county, state, and nation. You are all awesome! I hope that everyone will have a great time at the Annual Anne Arundel Master Garden- er Holiday Celebration on December 11. Please watch for newsflashes and see fur- ther information in the newsletter concern- ing the celebration. A special congratulations goes to our new 2012Interns who completed their basic train- ing and a special congratulations to our 2011 class for completing their service hours and becoming official Master Gardeners. I want to thank everyone for getting their “End of the Year Reports” and “Project Pro- posals” in. On behalf of the University of Maryland Co- operative Extension Service, I wish that each of our Master Gardeners and their fam- ilies have a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year. Tuesday, December 11th 7pm to 9pm Harundale Presbyterian Church 1020 Eastway, Glen Burnie, MD 21060 (On Route 2 North, between Fitzallen and Guilford Roads) It’s time for your best holiday dishes!! Appetizers or Salads Last Names’ Initials G through M Main Courses Last Names’ Initials N through Z Desserts Last Names’ Initials A through F Remember to bring serving utensils! Sorry, still no access to electric outlets but feel free to bring Sterno heaters Attendees may bring One Adult Guest Please consider donating a Raf- fle Item!! Fantastic Baskets Wreaths and Decorations Artwork Gardening Goodies RSVP by Wednesday, November 30th Cindy Wells 410.571.1124 [email protected]December Meeting—Annual Holiday Party! Inside this issue: Master Gardener Projects Apprentice Garden B&A Trail Bay-Wise Dairy Farm London Town Plant Propagation MG Mentor Program Woodland Garden 2-6 News from the State MG Office 7-8 AAMG News
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Anne Arundel County Master Gardeners December, 2012
Volume 16, Issue 12
The Coordinator’s Corner Mike Ensor, Anne Arundel County Master Gardener Coordinator
As the Holiday Season is among us and our gardens are somewhat at rest, we to need to take time to sit back with family and friends to relax and focus on what the true meaning of what this time of the year is all about.
At this time of the year, I give thanks for the many blessings and natural beauties around us. I also want to thank each of our Master Gardeners and truly appreciate your dedica-tion, support, and time for helping to make our Anne Arundel Master Gardener Program a true success that shines across the county, state, and nation. You are all awesome!
I hope that everyone will have a great time at the Annual Anne Arundel Master Garden-er Holiday Celebration on December 11.
Please watch for newsflashes and see fur-ther information in the newsletter concern-ing the celebration.
A special congratulations goes to our new 2012Interns who completed their basic train-ing and a special congratulations to our 2011 class for completing their service hours and becoming official Master Gardeners.
I want to thank everyone for getting their “End of the Year Reports” and “Project Pro-posals” in.
On behalf of the University of Maryland Co-operative Extension Service, I wish that each of our Master Gardeners and their fam-ilies have a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year.
Tuesday, December 11th 7pm to 9pm
Harundale Presbyterian Church 1020 Eastway, Glen Burnie, MD
21060 (On Route 2 North,
between Fitzallen and Guilford Roads)
It’s time for your best holiday dishes!!
Appetizers or Salads Last Names’ Initials G through M
Main Courses
Last Names’ Initials N through Z
Desserts Last Names’ Initials A through F
Remember to bring serving utensils!
Sorry, still no access to electric outlets but feel free to bring
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ANNE ARUNDEL MASTER GARDENER PROJECT REPORTS
Apprentice Gardens
Anne Nourse, MG, Project Chair
The Apprentice Garden is now resting for the winter. Weeds have been pulled, plants trimmed, areas mulched, garden plots covered with gardening fabric and carpeting placed down on the walking areas. I would like to thank all the MGs and Interns who made this project successful this year through their commitment, ener-gy, enthusiasm, knowledge and good spirits. These include Co-leader Trish Lilek, Joyce Miller, Claudia MacLaughlin, Susan Smouse, Deb Stevens, Barb Tibbs, Barbara Zellin, Diane Geslois, Linda Tyson, Nancy Zuenges, Mary Bean, Melissa Sim-mons, Ginny Klocko, Rosie Tucker, Kim Halsey, Sally Sherrill, Kim Briggs, Maida Bilson, Anne Biddle, Jean Beshensossel, Mary Yee, Ed Payne, Cindy Wells, Joyce Diehl, Mary Sue Bur-gess, Maida Bilson, Tony Smouse, Suzy Urich, Becky Sunday and Becky Peterson. Following are highlights of the 2012 Apprentice Garden Grow-ing Season:
Initial meeting with families
Preparing for planting with MG Joyce Miller
MGs Anne Nourse, Trish Lilek & Joyce Miller with graduating Apprentice Gardeners & some of the 37 AA Co Fair ribbons
awarded
Secret Garden & MGs Trish Lilek & Claudia
MacLaughlin
Planting in containers
Planting beans by the tunnel
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Bay-Wise Jim MacNicholl, MG, Project Chair
The Bay-Wise committee closed out this year’s season with Sharon Schroer’s presentation on Bay-Wise practices to the Annapolis Garden Club.
For the season, the Bay-Wise Committee certified 33 yards out of 45 visits. Public spaces accounted for three of our total cer-tifications. Master Gardeners accounted for seven of the total certifications. We estimate total contacts at 300 for the sea-son.
To date Anne Arundel County Bay-Wise Master Gardeners have certified 295 client landscapes and 16 non-residential sites. In addition, 100 Master Gardeners had their landscapes certified since Anne Arundel Master Gardeners began the com-mittee in 2001.
Listed below are non-residential public spaces certified as practicing Bay friendly gardening techniques, many of which are Master Gardener sponsored or supported projects.
St Mary's Church Monastery Garden, Annapolis (MG pro-ject)
Native Plants gardens at Quiet Waters Park (MG pro-ject)
Polly Katauskas, MG, and Mary Ellen Keck, MG, Project Co-Chairs
It was a lovely autumn morning when the B&A Trail Gardens were put to bed on 10 November. Sandy Patterson, Ginny Klocko, Mary Ellen Keck, Noreen Krispin, Carole Fullagar, Polly Katauskas, and Interns Becky Sunday and David Gillum weed-ed, raked, trimmed, and removed litter from the beds.
Plants with seed heads were left to provide food for wildlife and winter interest for humans. Luckily, the proposed upheav-al of our beds by Comcast did not occur.
Our four plots are located in Glen Burnie in the 600 block of Greenway Avenue between Aquahart Road and 5th Avenue.
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Dairy Farm
Elizabeth Matarese, MG, Project Co-Chair
Things have quieted down at the DF…The last workday, No-vember 29th closed things down at the Holly Glen. Tom Dorr helped get all the chips spread out, and a contingent of diehard workers finished the job. Here’s the Holly Glen, ready
for win-ter…the way we want to r e m e m -ber it! T a m i n g the front gardens of the f u t u r e E x t e n -
sion Office Building has produced a splendid new look, as shown below, before (below) and after (bottom left and right). The before and after photos speak volumes about the amount of effort that went into this transformation. Come spring, this will be a very welcoming sight for everyone transferring from the Glen Burnie Office to the Dairy Farm! The Village Garden remains our principle effort now. Carole Fullager, Rosemary Council, Maida Bilson, Bonnie Pavlak, Mal-
colm Doying, Tony Smouse, Susan Smouse, and Sue Ow-ens have spent time selecting and buying native plants, clearing out the front gardens of the new extension of-fice, and preparing for the eventual start of the Tony’s garden design, which will lie between the extension office and the old discovery barn. Tony’s plan, pictured below, captures many of the characteristics of the DF that histori-cally and organically that make this place unique. The VG committee has met frequently to align what will be plant-ed there with all the significant features of the plan.
MG Mentor Program Scott Doran, MG, Project Chair
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Londontown Plant Propagation
Barbara MacNemar, MG, Project Chair
After over 10 years of service to the gardens at Londontown, 2012 will be the plant propagation group’s last season.
The entire group (13 Master Gardeners this year) has enjoyed learning from and assisting three different on-site horticultur-alists over the years. In addition, we provided invaluable knowledge and advice to hundreds of customers at the twice- yearly plant sales.
It is possible a propagation project will be needed in the future and if so they (LT) will approach the MG EAB.
I know the group will miss our Fridays in the potting shed, but this will give us all an opportunity to contribute to new (to us) projects throughout the county.
MG Mentor MG Intern
Polly Katauskas Teresa Caplan
Sandy Patterson Susan Graves
Cindy Wells Cherie Loustaunau
Mary Sue Burgess Jean Elden
Linda Droneburg Samantha Stallybrass
Kay Stringfellow Virgil Davis
Mary Yee Teresa Rosello
Barbara MacNemar Ivia Crowley
Robin Noonan Norman Rogers
Bridgette Presti Jessica Zinder
Bob Bates David Alfera
Mary Beam Carolyn Keenan
MG Mentor MG Intern
Nancy Allred Donna Hoffman
Diane Keener Pamela Renollet
Becky Peterson Karen Strange
Lisa Winters Linda Russell
Debbie Werre Kathryn Warren
Elizabeth Matarese Drew Kinohi
Pat Shema Chris Marchiori
Suzy Urick Erika Nortemann
Rosemary Council Violette Cousineau
Robin Gill JoAnn Cesari
Marietta Schreiber Sheila DeLaquil
The list of 2012 MG Interns and their Mentors are as follows:
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Bonnie Pavlak is holding Japanese planting knife used to
plant bulbs.
Sue Mayer put
wood chips on
the path.
Winterberry holly is in its fall color.
Woodland Garden
Bonnie Pavlak, MG, Project Chair
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News from the State MG Office:
New MG Advanced Training Certificate in Vegetable Gardening Now Being Offered
Many MGs have mastered the basics of vegetable gardening and are ready to study some of the more important components in greater depth. In response to this need, the state MG Advanced Training program is creating new Level 2 courses and is of-fering an Advanced Vegetable Gardening Certificate to any MG completing 5 days of training organized by the state office.
New Classes:
Better Yields through Better Soils (counts for 1 day)
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013; 9:00am-4:00pm
Snow date: Sat. Feb 23, 2013
Cylburn Arboretum, Baltimore City.
Fee: $30 plus optional lunch
Registration Deadline: Jan. 25, 2013
One great intensive day with seven great presenters and– all focused on soils. Better Yields in our vegetable gardens – isn’t that what we all want? Bigger! Tastier! More Abundant! Improving your soil is one of the surest paths to better yields. Join us for this one-day intensive training on how to improve your soils focusing on urban, highly managed systems. You’ll learn about
Soil properties and tests
Soil problems and what to do about them
Soil microorganisms, what they do and how to encourage them
Safety issues
Soil fertility and amendments
Local history of land use and how it affects current soil conditions
Cover crops
How to make high quality compost
**Plus check out soilless growing during an optional tour of the Center for Livable Future’s new aquaponics facility at Cylburn from 4-5 pm!
This class is brought to you by the Baltimore Urban Agriculture program, the state Master Gardener Program, and our part-ners: Baltimore City Recreation and Parks, Chesapeake Compost Works, and the Center For a Livable Future.
See the next page for more class offerings:
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New MG Advanced Training Certificate
in Vegetable Gardening
New Classes!
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Organic Vegetable Gardening (counts for 1 day)
Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:00-3:30pm
UME, Cockeysville, Baltimore County
Fee: $35
Registration deadline: Feb. 22, 2013
Yes, you too can have a successful organic vegetable garden! In this program we will define the terms “organic” and “sustainable” and teach you about the products and techniques that will help you succeed. We’ll also discuss contaminants, safety, climate change, reading labels, soils and fertilizers. Get this important overview and the specific information you’ll need both for own garden and to teach to others.
Intensive Techniques and Small Space Gardening (counts for 2 days)
Dates: June 18 and June 25, Frederick County
Details to be announced soon
Vegetable Plant and Pest Diagnosis (This one-day class will be repeated in 2 locations.)
Howard Co. Conservancy – Tuesday July 16.
Charles Co. locations: Thursday, July 18.
Details to be announced soon. (counts for 1 day)
Other classes planned for the future:
Specialty Vegetables
High tunnels
And more!
For full details of classes (and breakout sessions) currently open for registration see MG Advanced Training website .
Registration information is on state MG website too.
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The University of Maryland Extension (UME) conducts the Maryland Master Gardener Program.
The Master Gardener Program’s mission is to educate Maryland residents about safe, effective, and sustaina-ble horticultural practices that build healthy gardens,
landscapes, and communities.
We’re on the web! Visit us at
www.annearundel.umd.edu/MasterGardeners
It is the policy of the University of Maryland, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and University of Maryland
Extension that all persons have equal opportunity and access to programs and facilities without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, age, marital or parental status, or disability.
Anne Arundel County
Master Gardener Program
Anne Arundel County Extension (410) 222-6757 FAX (410) 222-6747 Anne Arundel County Government Office Building 7320 Ritchie Highway, Suite 210 Glen Burnie, MD 21061
