Topic/s: Plant Growth and Development To gain a working knowledge of horticulture, you need to understand the structure, function, and processes of plants as well as the factors that can affect plant growth. The first step is to learn how plants are categorized. Light fare food will be served for the interns from 5:30 to... Read More →
Topic/s: Plant Growth and Development Speaker: Dr. Dave Creech of Stephen F. Austin University Dr. Creech is going do a program on growing “World Fruits/lesser known food sources” then he will also split the program and cover some of the more valuable (to wildlife/home landscape/earth friendly) native plants that are mostly over looked and or... Read More →
Class 1 - Introduction
Class 3 Propagation night. Interns will be doing hands on propagation
Class 4 Landscape Design for Northeast Texas
Class 5 Integrated Pest Management and Earthkind® Grape Trials in CBMGA Tuesday Jan. 22 we will have a TAMU Extension agent Ms. Hurley who Specializes and teaches Continuing Education Units for Pesticides, Herbicides and fungicides for the State of Texas. She will be available from 5:30 till 7:30 PM. Remember that TAMU Extension Specialists have... Read More →
Class 6 Fruit, nut trees and all types of berry bushes. Eric Lum, retired Extension Agent from Bowie county will present three hours of programs over fruit, nut trees and all types of berry bushes. He has a commercial orchard near New Boston Texas where he sells peaches, blackberries, blueberries. Again Eric Lum has about... Read More →
Class 7 -Greenhouse management and Plant Propagation Noelle, Kay, Sharon, Mary and several other CBMG will present various programs on Greenhouses and hoop houses and growing plants in greenhouses/hoop houses. Thursday more CBMG will need to be available as there will be various types of plant propagation and or transplanting of seedlings/cuttings during this last... Read More →
Class 8 - Greenhouse management and Plant Propagation Noelle, Kay, Sharon, Mary and several other CBMG will present various programs on Greenhouses and hoop houses and growing plants in greenhouses/hoop houses. Thursday more CBMG will need to be available as there will be various types of plant propagation and or transplanting of seedlings/cuttings during this... Read More →
Class 009 Tommy and Rosemary Morgeson will be our instructors for this program: Tommy, Rosemary and Keith will talk about: Introduction to the EarthKind gardening methods and soil prep. History and some examples of EarthKind plantings EarthKind Trials by CBMG, past and present Composting, how, why, and as an element in the EarthKind soil process... Read More →
Class 10 Necessity of pollination of flowers along with windblown pollen such as pecans, grasses, fungi and plants that produce no flowers. Main training will concentrate on the importance of Honey Bees, wasps, beetles, moths and butterflies and or the insects and other creatures that carry and distribute pollen from the flower Anther to the... Read More →
Class 11
