Topic:Selecting and Growing Garlic for the Home Gardener Featured Speaker/s:Shawn Warren Shawn Warren will present a program on selecting and growing garlic for the home garden here in North East Texas. They are currently growing around 80 different varieties of garlic near Paris Texas. Depending on your soil type there are soft neck types, hard... Read More →
Topic:Herbs and edible herbs that thrive in Northeast Texas Featured Speaker/s:Jolene Turner Wilson Jolene Turner Wilson will present the 3 hour program on Herbs, Edible herbs, heirloom and “Pass along” plants that thrive in Northeast Texas soils and weather. Jolene went through the CBMG training in 1999 when she and her family lived in Camp... Read More →
Topic:Vegetable Gardening Featured Speaker/s:Dr. Joseph Masabni Dr. Masabni’s area of expertise is vegetable production for small-acreage producers. Research interest is to develop production systems for high tunnel vegetables, aquaponics production, and pesticide and variety trials. Extension activities include developing online and printed materials for vegetable organic and conventional producers and homeowners, host workshops and conferences,... Read More →
CBMGA Regular Monthly Meeting Topic: Going Batty Speaker/s:Lisa Egner will be presenting "Going Batty" and how it is good for you and your pets and the why and how it requires special housing....to go batty ;-) Lisa will be presenting, “Batty About Bats”. Lisa is a graduate from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She... Read More →
Cypress Basin Master Gardeners Association will be hosting a Propagation Workshop on Saturday, Mar. 11th, from 9-11 AM. Cost is $5 per person, light refreshments will be served. Erna Hess will be speaking and demonstrating how to propagate plants and how to go from seed to garden. Come learn how to grow your own from... Read More →
Tarrant County Master Gardener Association Propagation Specialist Class March 24-25 Sheraton Hotel Arlington Two full days of hands-on learning from propagation experts and specialists. You will come home with propagation equipment, propagation book, resource materials and many, many starter plants. Learn these propagation techniques Seeds Air layering Stem cutting Soft &... Read More →
Area home school students will be touring the Master Gardens. The tour will consist of visiting each of the bed areas with information about each bed from the Bed Heads. Information that will be shared will consist of the types of plants in each bed, what plants are in each of the beds, the focus... Read More →
