Newsletter Archive

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January 31, 2012 Our Valentine Shopping Party has great perks, Seed Starting Strategy

January 17, 2012 Newsletter Take a Winter Pick-me-Up Class

December 14, 2011 Gardening Newsletter Welcome Rain

Nov. 30, 2011 Natives and Tropicals Mingle

Nov. 10, 2011 Greenery Galore

Oct. 25, 2011, Get Fall Chores Done

Sept. 29, 2011, Fall Colors (& More) Have Arrived

Sept. 12, 2011, Classes & Contests

August 26, 2011, Colorful Ideas for Sun & Shade

August 2, 2011, Colors of Summer

July 15, 2011 Handling the heat

July 5, 2011 Tackling Tough Lawn Weeds

June 21, 2011 Prune evergreens now, end the rhubarb harvest, improving bloom in aster & chrysanthemum

June 7, 2011 Defeating slugs, earwigs & Colorado Potato Beetles

5-27-11 Spade tree choices, Growing great tomatoes, Intersectional Peonies

5-13-11 Stopping Blossom End Rot on Tomato & Pepper

9-3-10    Flower & Vegetable Gardeners Alike Win

8-25-10   Enter Vegetable Growing Contest, Fall Flowers

8-13-10    Seed Grass, Seed Vegetables & Stop Seeds

8-5-10    Tackling Fescue in the Lawn

7-22-10   Contest Information & reminders, Garden Party Invitation

7-15-10    My Potatoes have Tomatoes?!

7-8-10      Plants look beautiful in the landscape, Evaluate before you spray, What is that plant?

7-1-10      Get Early Crops Ready to Harvest, Plan for Replanting

6-24-10    This summer’s surprise hungry insect: Earwigs; Memorial Tree gift,,, Perfect for now & later

6-16-10    Remember to fertilize annuals, perennials & shrubs; Recycle pots at Drummers

6-11-10    Scout for foliage diseases like black spot & powdery mildew; Remember to acidify soil for sensitive plants

6-2-10      Perennial Plant Association’s 2010 Perennial of the Year, Baptisia australis

5-7-10      Frost Warning

4-16-10    Spring “to-do list”

5-16-09    EAB Discovery in Minnesota, Sweet Potato Growing Preparation

3-26-09    Spring Raking, Sterilizing Pots, Repairing Dog Spots in Lawn

3-19-09    Prune & Dormant Spray Fruit Trees

3-12-09    Edible Gardening Payback

2-26-09    Make & Take 2009

2-18-09    Dormant Pruning Techniques for Woody Plants

2-10-09    Valentine Flowers

11-26-08  Christmas Trees

11-18-08  Caring Rose Week Benefits Food Shelf

10-23-08  Dig Tender Bulbs, Provide Water, Tend Fallen Leaves

10-8-08    Protect Trees & Shrubs from Animal Browsing, Using Wilt-Stop

9-11-08    Fall Seminars, Salsa Contest

7-31-08    Try Fall Vegetable Crops, Landscape Design Service

6-26-08    Squash Vine Borer & Apple Maggot Controls

4-8-08      Early Garden Crops to Plant

3-25-08    Grass Seeding

3-21-08    Control Creeping Charlie, Apply Animal Repellents

2-27-08    Easter Flowers