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Plants Exhibited by Youth

Thanks for the work with the youth at the livestock show.

15 youth exhibited plants at the Cherokee County Jr. Livestock Show. 5 Master Gardener volunteers aided.

8 Rows Ready at H.O.P.E. Garden

There are now 8 rows at the H.O.P.E. garden ready to plant.
The tops of the rows just need to be knocked down until there is a planting bed about 6 to 8 inches high and transplants or seed put in place. Keep in mind recommended spacing when planting. Placing plants to close will reduce yields and make management more difficult. Maybe before long the H.O.P.E. garden will look as good as the project in the photo. It is a garden Vida worked with a few years back. I think it would benefit HOPE to have a record of the hour of volunteer time put in on the garden. Could we note them on this blog? I have put in 6. My guess is that Keith has about that. There are nice beds but no plants yet. The average last frost in the area form 1900 to 1950 was March 25 and from 50 to 2000 it was March 15. Planting time is at hand.
Joe

Day Lily ???? Do not know the name, Ray and I bought the bulbs

at Burnet, Texas, Burnet Master Gardeners plant Sale.

If anyone can identify the name please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2nd year to produce bulbs, maybe he will have extras this year.

Ray and Roxie

Easter Morning 2007

Good Friday 2007

SFA - Horticulture Lecture Tonight

The SFA Arboretum Les Reeves Lecture Series is normally held the third Thursday of each month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in room 110 of the Stephen F. Austin University Agriculture Building on Wilson drive (between the Art building and the intramural fields. It is FREE and open to everyone! Refreshments are served before the talk and a rare plants raffle is held afterwards.

Mar 20 David Knauft, University of Georgia - “Breeding plants for the 21^st century -

Joe Daniel

# 3 Approved Volunteer Project

Soil preparation volunteers are needed this week at the H.O.P.E. garden site. The site needs to be tilled and ridge and furrow rows established. When finished they should look much like the sketch to the left. I would like the center of the ridges to be 56 inches apart. Do not knock the crown off the ridge at this time. That should be done at planting. Not having a soil test - we guess. Place about a pint of a 16-6-12 fertilizer under ever 20 feet of row. The fertilizer should be scattered in about a 6 to 12 inch band 4 to 6 inches below the area where seed will be placed. There should be a 8 to 12 inches difference in height from the bottom of the furrow to the top of the ridge. Please leave space for the on going class to make about 2 short rows. This volunteer service will feel like work. It will be more enjoyable if several(at least 4) work together. I am told the garden is highly valued by the H.O.P.E. staff. It is also a good teaching tool for the on-going class.

Joe Daniel
CEA-Horticulture

#2 Approved Volunteer Opportunity

About 4 volunteers are needed on Monday April 14 from 8:45 to 9:45am in the basement level of the courthouse in Rusk. The Cherokee County AgriLIFE Extension advisory board is sponsoring a informal reception for county commissioners and dept. leaders. Volunteers are needed to eat cookies and Bluebell Texas 4-H Centennial flavor ice cream, drink coffee, shake hands and say " We appreciate your support of the AgriLIFE Extension Program in Cherokee County. I take part in the master gardener program."

Joe Daniel
CEA-Horticulture
Cherokee County
Texas AgriLIFE Extension

New Approved Volunteer Hour Projects

The planning and making of a design sketch for a butterfly garden at the Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jacksonville is an approved volunteer project. Project leaders are :

Linda Taylor (903) 586- 5285
and
Helen Keller helkel47@quick.com

Joe Daniel
CEA-Horticulture
Cherokee County
Texas AgriLIFE Extension
j-daniel@tamu.edu

Color in a Cherokee Master Gardener's Garden

This is the work of an 2006/2007 class member.

This weed seemed to control my phone yesterday.

Do any of you Cherokee Master Gardeners know the common name of this winter annual? It is Lamium amplexicaule but what is the common name?

Color, Form,Texture

This photo was from a Smith county Master Gardener's garden. The color form and texture captured my eye.

Plant Forms

Working in New Summerfield I get excited about color but the simplicity of form is just as nice.
Joe

I really think this blog can be a good tool. I'm going to try to add somethng new often. Won't you?

I admire the way many of you master gardeners handle problems.
It is now years later and I still am amazed at the way Wayne Davis handled two trees having the tops blown out in their yard(garden).
Joe

Orchids

Here are a couple of pictures taken at our March meeting. The Central East Texas Orchid Society presented Growing tips for orchids and brought many orchid plants for demonstration.

Daylily Question

Have any of you Cherokee Master Gardeners seen a daylily like this growing in East Texas? If so, where?

East Texas Spring