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Service and training hours have been updated and listed in this Roto-Teller
issue. Click on the Service Hours link above. Please check your
listing and keep your records updated at the extension office.
According to the Texas Master Gardener Association, volunteer hours are now
valued at $ 17.55 per hour!
Trinity Turf, a wholesale/retail sod grower, will be the general meeting
site on Wednesday, June 8, at 10:00 AM. Owner Doug O'Connor will show us his
facility and discuss the various grasses grown there.
Trinity Turf is located in Pilot Point. From the extension office, take Loop
288 to Highway 380 east and exit to Highway 377 north. Drive through
Krugerville and Aubrey. After the Ford dealership in Pilot Point, turn right
on Fouts Road; go one mile to the turf farm.
The July General Meeting will
be an evening meeting, 7:00 PM, at the extension office. Nancy
Collins and Owen Yost, Denton Record-Chronicle columnists and design
partners, will speak on building "Backyard Habitats."
The DCMGA Scholarship Committee will meet on Friday, June 10, 9:30 AM at
the extension office. Anyone interested in joining of the committee may
attend. The current committee chairman, Mary Ellen Richards, will be
vacating that position and a new chairman will be selected.
This committee is responsible for promoting the Tom Harpool Horticulture
Scholarship Award, as well as selecting the recipient.
Thanks to the following Speakers Bureau members and Master Gardeners for
their recent contributions:
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Maurine LeBeau, April 6, Denton County Senior Citizen
Center
Diane Wetherbee, April 13, Lewisville Independent School District, General
Council Meeting
Janet Gershenfeld and Joan Stanley, May 9, McAuliffe Elementary School,
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So far this year, our presentations have reached 313 people throughout
Denton County! I wish to thank all of our members and congratulate them on a
job well done! We still have more time to reach even more people before the
year is through.
We are always looking for new members, so if you have an interest, please
contact me.
Annell Burns, Speakers Bureau Project Manager
There will be a gardening day at Bayless-Selby House on Wednesday, June 15,
at 8:30 AM. The gardens need to look their best for all the visitors to the
Denton County Fruit, Vegetable, Herb, and Flower Show to be held the
following Saturday.
 DCMGA, along with the city of Denton, is sponsoring the third annual Fruit,
Vegetable, Herb, and Flower Show on Saturday, June 18, from 8:30 AM to 1:00
PM, at Fireman's Memorial Park, in front of Bayless-Selby House.
Volunteers are still needed to make this show another success. Anyone
volunteering is still eligible to place entries in the show. Volunteers
should be at the park by 8:00 AM; registration will be held from 8:30 to
9:00 AM, with judging to follow. Water will be provided. Bring a folding
chair if you need to sit down. To volunteer, contact Maurine LeBeau, project
manager.
There will be ribbons awarded in three categories; children, youth, and
adult. Cash prizes, provided by North Star Bank, will go to Grand Champion,
Reserve Champion, and Best in Show.
We are harvesting romaine, spinach, radishes, onions, Swiss chard and a few
beets. We are watching the tomatoes develop and are waiting for them to turn
red. We are getting a few strawberries and eagerly watching the new blooms
appear where strawberries will grow. We are now planting black-eyed peas,
lima beans, radishes, cucumber, bush beans, and okra where some of the
cooler weather crops will end. We are discussing continuing to meet on
Thursday evenings after mid-June if it isn't unbearably hot and if we can
get participants. We want to see some of the warm weather crops mature and
we like to meet! We're getting attached to the kids and they to us. We are
having 6 visitors from an environmental class at Northlakes join us next
Thursday. One of our neighboring gardeners is going to let us dig a few of
his potatoes and another one will let us pick an ear of corn when they
mature. The two resident bunnies have had three babies and one likes to hide
under our nasturtiums. We've encountered cucumber beetles and stink bugs,
but they seem to be under control. The morning glories, peas, beans,
cucumber and sunflowers are growing up around our trellis tunnel and we look
forward to having it become an enclosed tunnel. Hope you are having as much
fun with your projects as we are with ours!
Marie Harris, Project Manager
The DCMGA Plant Sale date has been set for Saturday, September 24, from 9:00
AM-2:00 PM at LISDOLA, the site of one of DCMGA's largest, ongoing projects.
According to Karen Archambault, DCMGA chairman for ways and means, many
volunteers will needed to make this event a success. Volunteers have already
been assigned duties of watering the plants that have already arrived at two
locations for summer "baby-sitting." To find out more about volunteer
opportunities, contact Karen.
Another way to help with the fall fundraiser (and thin out your flower
beds!) is to host a "Potting Party." Parties have already been held by Mary
Morrow and Myrna Engle. Any potting soil required will be furnished by
DCMGA.
The annual fall roundup for trainee class members will be Wednesday, October
19, 10:00 AM-Noon, at the extension office. This is our chance to meet with
fellow gardeners and discuss DCMGA programs and projects. Fliers regarding
the roundup and class dates can be obtained at the extension office; be sure
to pick up some for those friends and neighbors who have expressed an
interest in become a Master Gardener.
Brazos County Master Gardeners, along with Dr. Doug Welsh and Charla
Anthony, will host the 2006 State Conference May 4-6 in Reed Arena at Texas
A &M University. More information regarding transportation and
accommodations will be provided later.
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