Seed Starting -Tips for Success
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MGs Jennifer and Lisa draw from their experience seeding and growing on starts for the BCMGA plant sale. They will share strategies for starting veggies, annuals and perennials. PowerPoint presentation, demonstrations, and open Q/A. We’d love to hear from the audience: What is your favorite/most challenging plant you’ve started from seed? Be ready to answer in chat! Looking forward to growing season!
Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash
- Shoutouts
- LOTS of new volunteer opportunities, see below!
- Continuing ed: Fruit Tree Pruning workshop
- Saturday, February 26, 1:30-3:00 pm
- The Giving Garden at Shepherd of the Valley
- 2659 NW Highland Drive, Corvallis
- Learn pruning basics on 10-year old apple, plum and pear trees trained in open vase shape on semi-dwarf root stock. We will have some hand tools available. Optional: Bring gloves, hand clippers. Wear weather appropriate clothing (rainwear, boots – long grass in orchard). Please be ready to wear a mask if social distancing is difficult during demonstrations.
- Led by Meleah Ashford and Jennifer Klammer
- Containers needed: BCMGA is putting together a display garden at the fairgrounds to show various types of edible vegetables, flowers and herbs that can be grown in containers. We are looking for large (18” or larger) decorative pots for the garden, preferably ceramic or terra cotta. If you have any extra pots that you can donate, please send a photo of the pots and an indication of size to Denise Saunders at vdenisesaunders@comcast.net
- Volunteers needed
- Call For Applications: Cohort II of the Master Gardener JEDI Task Force
- JEDI stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity. Sometimes, we call ourselves the DEI Task Force.
- Sometimes, we call ourselves the JEDI Task Force, because frankly, the word ‘JEDI’ is both more representative
- of what we are trying to do, and is also more fun to say.
- Applications for the second cohort of Master Gardener JEDI Task Force Members are now being accepted.
- Click here to learn more and apply. Applications will be accepted through February 28, 2022.
- BCMG Greenhouse Help: It’s time to begin growing veggies in the greenhouse at Philomath High School for the annual plant sale on May 7. Enroll HERE.
- Presentation: Corvallis CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) in Corvallis, Oregon is seeking a presentation for a group of volunteers that are interested in learning more about gardening, non-invasive species, native plants and more, as part of emergency response! If interested, please contact Elizabeth Records.
- Office Plant Clinic sign ups open: The office is open to the public as of January 2022, and volunteers can sign up for plant clinic shifts as desired, to answer client questions or practice skills. Desk is open for solo volunteers, or grab our ipad and mini microscopes and work in the conference room with a friend. Sign up HERE.
- Find ongoing and anytime opportunities on the Benton Volunteer Opportunities Page.
- Call For Applications: Cohort II of the Master Gardener JEDI Task Force
- Continuing education opportunities:
- BEEvent – save the date: Sat. March 5, 2022. Learn more & sign up February 2022 at linnmastergardeners.com
- Consider This, Oregon Humanities: Join us on March 10, 2022 for an online conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. This program will be streamed live at 5:00 p.m. Pacific on YouTube. RSVP for this free program.
- New! OSU Extension Master Gardeners announce 2022 Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up Series schedule It’s a new year and a new slate of free online learning webinars with Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up Series. Whether you want to learn how to finally be better with your irrigation, understand if cleaning up leaves in the fall is really good or not so good for the insects in the garden, or get excited for all things roses, there’s a class for you. March 8: Local Beauties: Native Plants for Ecologically Enhanced Gardens and Landscapes with Nikkie West, Kathryn Prive and Rick Martinson
- Community news (Please note that anything in this section is not eligible for MGV volunteer service nor endorsed by Extension, but is mentioned as a courtesy to our community.)
- Do you have an edible garden? Consider being a host on the Edible Garden Tour. Please respond to this survey if interested: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7FTPKW9
