Volunteer Training Presentations

2020 Training:

Week 1: Gardener’s Botany

Quiz- Chapter 1- Botany Basics

Botany Presentation by Chip Bubl 

 

Week 2: Pesticide Safety, Soils & Fertilizers; Insects in Your Garden

Quiz- Chapter 19 – Understanding Pesticides

Quiz – Chapter 2+5 – Soils, Fertilizers, Composting

Quiz – Chapter 14 – Basic Entomology

Soil & Fertilizer Resources by Claudia Groth

Entomology Presentation by Jean Natter

 

Week 3: Resource Fair / Composting

Volunteer Payback Options 2020

Composting 101

 

Week 4: Vertebrate Pests, Fruit Trees and Hands on Pruning

Quiz – Chapter 18 – Vertebrate Pest Management

Quiz – Chapter 10 – Home Orchards

Quiz – Chapter 4 – Pruning


 

Week 5: Landscape Care & Pruning

Quiz – Chapter 12 – Lawns

Quiz – Chapter 21 – Sustainable Landscape Design

Woody Plants & Pruning Presentation by Weston Miller


 

Week 6: Vegetables & Plant Propagation

Quiz – Chapter 7 – Vegetable Gardening

Vegetable Presentation by Chip Bubl

Quiz – Chapter 3 – Plant Propagation

 

Week 7: Plant ID

Quiz- Chapter 22 – Plant Identification

 

Week 8: Weeds, IPM and Berries

Weeds with Chip Bubl 6/15/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_lvfpq8y8Links to an external site.

Link to Weeds slideshow presentation: https://oregonstate.box.com/s/vdvj3de5xzneradb2onqqnzwb2a08yon (Links to an external site.)

Quiz – Chapter 17 – Weed Management

Quiz- Chapter 20 – Integrated Pest Management

Quiz – Chapter 11 – Berry Crops

Q&A Integrated Pest Management 4/29/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_d934w4mzLinks to an external site.

 

 

Week 9: Diagnostics Practice

Q&A Diagnosing Plant Problems 4/1/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_9l1sbdf7Links to an external site.

Q&A Plant Pathology 4/15/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_ftudhtdiLinks to an external site.

 

Week 10: Honey Bees & Pollinators, Plant Problem Diagnosis, Household Insects

Native Bees with Deb Brimacombe 5/20/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_pxfgurk4Links to an external site.

Link to folder with additional Native Bee Resources: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvDl0B5NXEV5gaEHtmee3RdNixqVgQ?e=h2Up8S (Links to an external site.)

Backyard Honeybee Keeping with Linda Zahl 5/27/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_bd5nzklqLinks to an external site.

Quiz – Chapter 15 – Plant Disease

Quiz – Chapter 16 – Diagnosing Plant Problems

Household Pests with Chip Bubl 6/8/2020:

https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_ae9g3lf3Links to an external site.

Cool 3-min. video about mosquitoes:

How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood | Deep Look (Links to an external site.)

 

2020 MG Training – OPEN BOOK REVIEW

Test review – Trainees may see the live recording of the test review Q&A in their Canvas account or email Sonia.Reagan@oregonstate.edu for an answer key.

 

BONUS: Home Food Preservation with Jenny Rudolph 6/10/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_rxo9u6hhLinks to an external site.

 



2019 Training:

Week 1: Gardener’s Botany

Quiz- Chapter 1- Botany Basics

Botany Slideshow by Chip Bubl

 

Week 2: Fruit Trees

Quiz – Chapter 4 – Pruning

Quiz – Chapter 10 – Home Orchards

Training & Pruning Your Home Orchard PNW400

 

Week 2: Insects in Your Garden

Entomology Handout by Jean Natter

Entomology Slideshow by Jean Natter

Quiz – Chapter 14 – Basic Entomology

 

Week 3: Resource Fair/Composting

Payback Options 2019

Composting 101

 

Week 3: Plant Problem Diagnosis

Deciphering Key MG Resources by Jean Natter

Quiz – Chapter 15 – Plant Disease

Quiz – Chapter 16 – Diagnosing Plant Problems

 

Week 4: Vertebrate Pests

Quiz – Chapter 18 – Vertebrate Pest Management

Vertebrate Pests Slideshow by Chip Bubl

 

Week 4: Pesticide Safety

Quiz- Chapter 19 – Understanding Pesticides

Pesticide Safety Presentation 2019 by Chip Bubl

 

Week 4: Soils & Fertilizers

Soil and Fertilizer Practice Sheet by Claudia Groth

Soils Handout by Claudia Groth

Soil Texture and 100 sqft Estimates

Texture by Feel Procedure

When to Fertilize Guidelines

More Resources

Quiz – Chapter 2+5 – Soils, Fertilizers, Composting

 

Week 5: Diagnostics Practice

Responding to Clientele about Marijuana Questions

Diagnostics Practice Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe

 

Week 6: Vegetables

Soil Temps for Seeds

Planting & Harvest Calendar

Fall & Winter Vegetable Gardening in the PNW (PNW548)

Fertilizing Your Garden (EC1503)

Vegetable Presentation by Chip Bubl 2019

Quiz – Chapter 7 – Vegetable Gardening

 

Week 6: Intro to Propagation

Propagation Handout by Elizabeth Howley

Cutting ‘Tips’ by Elizabeth Howley

OSU Publication: How to Build Your Own Raised-Bed Cloche

 

Week 7: Weeds

Weeds Presentation 2019 by Chip Bubl

Quiz – Chapter 17 – Weed Management

 

Week 7: Hands-on Propagation

Cutting Propagation Workshop for MG 2019

 

Week 8: Berries

Quiz – Chapter 11 – Berry Crops

Berries Presentation by Jane Collier

 

Week 8: Integrated Pest Management

Quiz- Chapter 20 – Integrated Pest Management

IPM Handout 2019 by Claudia Groth

IPM Presentation 2019 by Claudia Groth

 

Week 9: Landscape Care & Pruning

Landscape Care & Pruning Presentation 2019 by Weston Miller

Quiz – Chapter 12 – Lawns

Quiz- Chapter 21 – Sustainable Landscape Design

 

Week 9: Plant ID

Plant ID Presentation 2019 by Sonia Reagan

Quiz- Chapter 22 – Plant Identification

 

Week 10: Honeybees & Pollinators

Habit for Bees Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe

Native Bees Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe

Honeybee & Pollinator Presentation 2019 by Linda Zahl

 

Final Review – Due 4/13/19

2019 St. Helens Master Gardener Open Book Review

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