Serving Gardeners in Western
Massachusetts
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What is the Master Gardener Association? The Western
Massachusetts Master Gardener Association provides volunteer services to the
general public, including an e-mail hotline to answer your gardening
questions; soil testing, and presentations to civic and gardening groups. Gardening
Topic for January –How To Read a Seed
Catalog It's January
and the seed catalogs are piling up faster than the snow drifts.... More |
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News
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January -.
January is the month to start
ordering seeds so that you can begin starting them inside in March. Check out the new varieties, but don’t forget
what worked well last summer. Find and
clean your seed starting trays and gro-lights. After heavy snows, check your shrubs and
brush off the snow before it does any damage.
2012
Spring Symposia
March 17,
2012 – Frontier Regional High School, South Deerfield, MA click here for a brochure
March 24,
2012 – St. Mary’s School, Lee MA click here for a brochure
March 31,
2012 – Dean Technical High School, Holyoke, MA click here for a brochure
Boxwood
Blight Alert
Boxwood blight is a disease that
has recently been identified in Connecticut.
This is the first reported occurrence of the disease in the U.S. The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural
Resources is now conducting a nursery survey to determine if it has entered
Massachusetts. The disease is
characterized by leaf spots, rapid leaf loss, distinctive black cankers on the
stem and severe dieback. If you observe
boxwood (Buxus sp.) with these symptoms in your
landscape or in a nursery, contact the Connecticut Experiment Station’s Plant
Disease Information Office at 203-974-8601.
For more information, go to http://extension.umass.edu/landscape/sites/landscape/files/fact-sheets/pdf/boxwood_blight_CAES.pdf
Soil Test Clinics –
Check back in the
Spring for 2012 dates and locations.
Demonstration
Classes in Pittsfield
All classes are free (donations to offset print cost are
appreciated). Classes are rain or shine- no reschedules. Please check back in
the spring for the new schedule.
Get Help from
our Hotlines by phone or by e-mail -
The telephone
hotline is open. Leave a question and phone number on the answering machine and
we will call you back. 413-298-5355.
EMAIL YOUR
QUESTIONS E-mail us year round with
your gardening questions and a Master Gardener will research it and get back to
you with an answer within 48 hours. For more information, see our Events page.
Check out the new
UDSA hardiness zone map:
http://www.ahs.org/publications/usda_hardiness_zone_map.htm
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