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Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter
The Watering Can
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Coordinator’s
Corner
2
Carpool to MG Training Day
2
Garden Affair 3, 4, 5
Demonstration
Garden
6
Native Plant Tour 6
Classes? 7
Impatiens Downy Mildew
7
Advanced Train-ing
8
Volunteer 9
MG Meetings 10
General Info 11
Calendars 12,
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Emmalea Ernest is a Lancas-ter County , PA native, now trans-planted Sussex County, DE. Testing new vegetable varieties to deter-mine their usefulness for commer-cial production on Delmarva is one of her main job responsibilities in her work with the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension Vegetable Research Program. She also leads the UD lima bean breed-
ing program and oversees other re-search related to vegetable and small fruit production.
Wednesday, May 15 9:30 to 11:30 am at
Tilghman Terrace (Directions on page 10)
“Considerations When Choosing Fruit and
Vegetable Varieties” Speaker: Emmalea Ernest, Extension Associate - UDEL
Rain Garden Clean-up, Thursday, May 2, 9am
Garden Affair, Saturday, May 4
Landscape Design for Water Management, Wye Research In-stitute, May 8, 15, 29
MG Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, May 15
Annual MG Training Day, College Park, May 22
Entomology—Ecological IPM, Mike Raupp, Wye, June 6, 13
15th Anniversary Celebration, June 19
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UPDATE YOUR
CONTACT INFO!
Please send any changes
to: Pat Bowell at
505 Railroad Ave,
Suite 4,
Centreville, MD 21617
Fax: (410) 758-3687
Coordinator’s Corner
Debbie Pusey, Linda Doub and Jane Smith for helping Karen Wimsatt at the KI farmers market booth; Linda Doub and Valynda Kingsley for being hostesses at
the meeting; Judy Cahall-Conley, Judy Geggis, Jackie Kelly, Jim Persels, Kathy Persels, Susan Seth and Cathy Tengwall for helping out with the demonstration gardens; Linda Doub, Ellen Filer, Pat Bowell and Joe Jelich for helping with the MG display at the Queen Anne's Heritage Festival;
Stephanie Simpson, Louise Shearer, Kate Greer and Cathy Tengwell, for doing IAL talks at Chesapeake College. As always, thanks is due to all of you, but if we missed a deserved thank you or if you wish to express your appreciation to someone, please let Sabine know and it shall be acknowledged in the next newsletter.
Thanks To:
Master Gardener
Coordinator - who will
wear the hat next?
Presentations by MG Coordinator Candidates Monday, June 17
QAC Commissioners’ Office, 2nd floor
107 North Liberty St. Park behind building or behind Fire House
Carpooling MG Training Day
Name NEED a ride GIVING a ride to Contact Info
Linda and Jack Doub Jim Persels Western Auto Park and Ride,
6:30am, leaving 6:45pm
Connie Metcalf X [email protected]
Sandy Simonson X [email protected]
Judy Geggis X [email protected]
Elizabeth Riffe X [email protected]
Pat Gannon X
Carol Romano X
If you need a ride OR if you can offer a ride to the Annual Training Day, please contact Sabine Harvey, [email protected]
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Garden Affair
What will you be doing on Saturday May 4th? Please look for you What will you be doing on Saturday May 4th? Please look for you What will you be doing on Saturday May 4th? Please look for you name in the list below.name in the list below.name in the list below.
Don’t see you name? Contact Jim Persels or Carol Jelich. There is Don’t see you name? Contact Jim Persels or Carol Jelich. There is Don’t see you name? Contact Jim Persels or Carol Jelich. There is still plenty left to be done!still plenty left to be done!still plenty left to be done!
Project Volunteers Signed up Tables/Tents/Chairs; Notes
Co-Chairs Jim Persels, Carol Jelich Set up and clean up; fill in as needed
Publicity Genie Fitzgerald Done
Set up - Clean up Set Up starts at 8am. Clean up starts at 2pm.
Susan Seth, Carol Jelich, Joe Jelich, Jim Persels, Gayle Jayne, Marty Appel, Fred Kurst, Genie Fitzgerald, Jack Doub, Linda Doub, Ted Filer
Each table host should plan to arrive by 8 am to set up their dis-play, and stay till after 2 to break down their display. Please let Jim or Carol know if other volunteers are needed to help.
Balloons Marty Appel Susan has paid, Marty to pick up
Greeters Kate Greer will arrange; Ellen Fil-er, Carol Romano, Judy Geggis, Marty Appel
2 tables with umbrellas (Pat G bringing), greeters to bring own chairs
Ask a Master Gardener Sabine Harvey, Susan McRae, Jim Persels
1 table (Sabine bringing), 2 chairs, 1 tent Susan M may also do Green E
Bake Sale Sue D'Camera, Joe Jelich, Kit Foster
1 table, 2 chairs
Birds, Butterflies & Benefi-cial Insects
Pat Gannon, Pete Gerdom, Con-nie Metcalf
1 table, 3 chairs, 1 tent – Connie may go to plant sale
Bay-Wise Display Kate Greer , Marty Appel, Cathy Tengwall
1 table (Cathy T bringing), 1 tent, 3 chairs
Children’s Crafts Betty McAttee, chair; Jackie Kelly, Edie Lewis, Valynda Kingsley, Debbie Pusey (passport develop-ment only)
2 large tables, 4 chairs
Composting John Ittu 1 table, tent, John will bring
Container Gardening Lynn Wait, Carol Jelich for breaks 1 table, Lynn will bring, plus 2 chairs and umbrella
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Door Prizes White tickets to be given out by greeters, one per family (approx).
1 table to display. Ellen Filer and Kate Greer will decide where to locate this table, Drawing times to be posted.
Face Painting Genie Fitzgerald ; Jessica Dixon, Hanna Kingsley
2 tables, 3 chairs – use card ta-bles; 1 tent
Green Elephant Sale Karen Wimsatt, Julie Tompkins, Susan McRae, Paula Bounds, Joyce Woodford
2 tables, 4 chairs, 1 tent. Susan M may also do Ask a MG.
Grow It Eat It Jack Doub, Linda Doubm Uma 1 table and 2 chairs 1 tent -- Doubs will bring plus 1 card table for Uma
Herb Display Gayle Jayne, Vida Morley 1 table, 2 chairs, 1 tent
Native Plants Cass Smith, Nick Stoer 1 table, 2 chairs, 1 tent
Photography Jessica Carrick, Valynda’s neigh-bor
All can take. Photo release forms should be completed for photos of children.
Plant Sale Jane Smith, Sandy Simonson, Carole Colavito, Jane Chambers
4 tables, 4 chairs, 3 tents (2 from Ext), maybe Connie Metcalf
Raffle Pat Gannon and Connie Metcalf to monitor from their table
1 table to display prizes
Rain Garden Display Debbie Pusey, Margaret Gardner, Nick
1 table, 2 chairs, 1 tent (Jelich)
Rain Barrel Display John Ittu 1 table, 1chair (John will bringing)
Exhibitor Contact
Adkins Arboretum Ginna Tiernan/Alice MacNow 1 table, 1 chair
Chesapeake Bay EC Courtney Leigh 1 table, 1 chair
Chester River Association Heather Forsyth 1 table, 1 chair
Corsica River Association Debbie Pusey 1 table, 1 chair
Eastern Shore Land Cons Carin Starr 1 table, 1 chair
QAC Health Dept Karey Minor McCauley 1 table, 1 chair
QAC Public Library Storyteller no table needed
4H Food Service Sheila Shorter 3 tables, 3 chairs
Garden Affair
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WANTED…Items for the Green Elephant table at the Garden
Affair in May… gently used garden tools, decora-
tive pots, vases, gadgets, gloves, books, magazines,
etc. Please price your items. Thanks, Karen
Plant Sale Information
Please consider contributing to the plant sale!! Here are some tips: Please bring only healthy plants Plants can be divided or grown from seed Please avoid plants on the invasive plant list Label plant with Latin AND common name Do not put prices on your plants. We will price the plant items. Bring excess pots and trays to the April MG Meeting
Tips for labeling plants: Cut labels out of milk cartons or clear soft drink bottles Use popsicle sticks or tongue depressors Use a permanent marker or Sharpie Include additional info (on label or masking tape) such as color, bloom time, growing conditions, size, sun/shade requirements, etc. This is helpful for both the MG volun-teer as well as the person who is buying the plant.
For more information contact: Jane Smith, [email protected]
Bake Sale Information
Health Department Rules regarding bake sales: No products with cream or custard All products need to be individually wrapped and labeled All ingredients need to be listed to avoid allergic reactions
Guidelines for packaging baked goods: 3 large cookies or 4 small cookies per “bag” Brownies: 3 large or 4 small bars per “bag” Please wrap entire loaf cake or bread
Any baked goods are welcome!! Thank you so much for your help. If you have any other questions, please contact Sue D’Camera, [email protected]
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Rain Garden Clean-up Submitted by Debbie Pusey
Thank you to Judy Cahall-Conley, Judy Geggis, Jackie Kelly, Jim Persels, Kathy Persels, Susan Seth and Cathy Tengwall for help-
ing out with both the Library Rain Garden and the 4-H Park garden. Kathy and Jim Persels took care of the 4-H Park garden, weeding, pruning and cutting back the two big butterfly bushes in the fenced in area by our raised bed. The pile of cuttings from the two bushes was almost as high as the fence! We’ll have to prune them again before the fair so people can see our booth. This garden really looks good. Everything has come back and looks healthy. It just needs some mulch to help prevent more weeds before it fills in.
The rest of us worked at the library rain garden. Thank goodness the County had a work day there two weeks ago. They weeded, mulched and cleaned out the dry river bed and outfall pipe area. In spite of all the work they did, we still had a lot of pruning to do and weeds were coming back again.
We will have another work day there on Thursday, May 2 starting at 9:00am to make sure the garden is in tip-
top shape for our Garden Affair. Our next regularly scheduled work day will be Thursday, May 16th at 9:00am at the Centreville Library Rain Garden.
Adkins Native Plant Garden Tour
Mary Jo Kubeluis is seeking four more volunteers to act as docents at native plant gardens in Caroline County on May 11 from 10 to 1 or 1 to 4. Docents get free admission to the other gardens on the tour. There will be pre-tour visits to gardens and written notes on the high-lights provided. If you can help, please contact Mary Jo at [email protected]
SAD NEWS Barbara Vaughan
On April 29, Barbara Vaughan, our friend and Master Gardener since 2001 quietly passed away . She would have been 88 on Wednesday, May1. Barbara was alert, making plans and keeping everyone on their toes right up until Sunday. She was a smart and elegant lady who will be missed.
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Would you like to attend this class on the Eastern
Shore? Intensive Techniques and Small Space Vegetable Gardening Get more out of your vegetable gardens with less work and expense. Find out how to increase production per square foot us-ing sustainable and cost-effective practic-es.
We’ll share, discuss and evaluate specific approaches, such as biointensive (John Jeavons) and square foot (Mel Bartholo-mew), and specific practices, such as inter-planting, succession planting, vertical gar-dening, drip irrigation, and season exten-sion. . If this sound interesting to you, please let Karen Wimsatt and Robin Hessey know.
Impatiens Downy Mildew
An important new disease on impatiens, both in home landscapes and commercial plantings, has arrived in Maryland this summer. To prevent further problems this coming season it will be very important to follow the right management steps this fall. The disease is caused by the fungus-like microorganism, Plasmopara obducens, and is favored by cool, moist conditions. However, we have continued to see symp-toms even in hot weather. The disease af-fects both seed and cutting propagated Im-patiens walleriana. It appears that New Guinea impatiens plants are resistant or tolerant.
Symptoms can be very subtle, starting as a slight light green mottling or stippling on one or a few leaves. Infected leaves may curl downward. If you look at the un-dersides of these leaves, the white fuzzy growth of the pathogen is visible. As the disease progresses, infected plants will be stunted, and leaves and flowers will fall off leaving bare, leafless green stems. The leafless stems will eventually turn brown and become soft.
The survival of the disease depends on thick-walled structures called oospores that are formed in the diseased leaves and stems. These oospores can then overwin-ter in the soil and become a source of the disease next year.
Unfortunately, fungicides do not cure infected plants, so all symptomatic plant material should be bagged and discarded. Don’t compost them in your yard or at your site. We understand that this pathogen has overwintered on infect-ed plants both in Europe and on Long Is-land, NY. Therefore we are recommend-ing that you should not plant Impatiens next year if you had infected plants this year.
Good substitutes would include cultivars of wax, winged and tuberous begonias, vinca, New Guinea impatiens, coleus, plec-tranthus, hypoestes, iresine, torenia, lobe-lia, and nicotiana. You could even try some grass-like alternatives such as culti-vars of isolepis (optic grass) which is a sedge, and juncus and luzula which are rushes, and stipa which is a feather grass.
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Educational Opportunities
Annual MG
Training Day Wednesday, May 22, 2013,
College Park Keynote speaker: Rick Darke “Design Ethics for the Nature of Today’s Gardens.” Rick will also be doing a break-out session on “The New Wild Garden: Dynamic, Livable, Ecological”. For a complete list of all the 35 speakers, the schedule and the registration form, please got to http://extension.umd.edu/mg/annual-training-day Deadlines: 4/26/13 for MG Identity Items. 4/30/13 for Registration at the $69 rate. Fee after April 30: Are you interested in CARPOOLING? Please let Sabine know, [email protected]
Advanced MG Trainings
on the Eastern Shore! Wye Research Center in Queenstown
Landscape Design for Water Management Wed. 5/8, 5/15, 5/29 9:30-3:30 plus optional field trips and exercises
In this course, you 'll gain some very specific skills:
Specific information about plants used for conservation landscaping so that you can advise clients on plant selection and placement.
How to install rain barrels How to assess a site
You'll also learn to design techniques that help manage water in the best possible way.
Learn how to make good design decisions including resource protections, microclimates, amount and type of hardscapes, material selections, maintenance requirements and best management practices (best design principles) for water management. Learn in-depth about and take field trips to both rain-gardens and riparian buffers. Understand the scale of the problem and the role of the Master Gardener in the solutions.
Entomology-Ecological IPM with Mike Raupp
Thursdays, June 6 and June 13; 9:30am-3:30pm
In addition to some fascinating insect CSI, this year's expanded 2-day course will include the fundamental concepts of population biology, community ecology, ecosystem functions and services as they relate to urban ecosystems and IPM. Some topics to be highlighted:
Role of of native plants.
Planting to conserve diversity and attract pollinators and other beneficial insects.
Managing water and soil resources for maximum benefit of insect populations and ecosystem function.
Changing public perception of what constitutes a healthy attractive landscape.
This class will satisfy the Entomology requirement for all of you going for your Plant Diagnostics certificate and will be of great help to those of you working at Ask a MG events.
Registration Fee: $49 Registration Deadline: May 30, 2013
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Bay-Wise Help with certifications and publicity. Contact Jane Chambers, [email protected] , Kate Greer, [email protected] or Vida Morley, [email protected]
Demonstration Gardens Help maintain some beautiful gardens in Centreville. Contact Debby Pusey, [email protected]
Grow It Eat It So many opportunities! Give talks, go to schools, make presentations at plant clinics etc. Contact Linda & Jack Doub [email protected] or [email protected] or Sabine Harvey [email protected]
Volunteer Opportunities Plant Clinics Chestertown: Contact Sabine Harvey, [email protected] Kent Island Farmers Market: Karen Wimsatt, jimandkaren.wimsatt@ gmail.com
School Gardens Help maintain the gardens or work with students. Contact Sabine Harvey, [email protected]
Reminder: Hours volunteered at Ad-kins Arboretum do count towards Mas-ter Gardener program hours.
Kent Island Federation of Arts Garden Tour June 8 and 9, 2013
10am—4 pm Looking for docents to fulfill TWO hour shifts, either day. This is a great opportunity to answer questions and promote our programs. Not to mention, it's pleasant work. Sit in the shade by the water and talk to interesting people. Can't ask for better. You will receive a free ticket for both days and an invitation to the Thank You Party. On Friday, June 14. Please contact Karen Wimsatt if you are able to volunteer for an hour or two, [email protected]
Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge—Butterfly Garden Alice Macnow is looking for volunteers to help cleanup at the Butterfly Garden at East-
ern Neck Wildlife Refuge, south of Rock Hall, The group of volunteers meets on Thurs-
day mornings. Call (410) 639-7056 for information.
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Date Topic, Speaker Time Place
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Considerations When Choosing Fruit and Vegetable Varieties
Emmalea Ernest
9:30 to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Picnic and 15th Anniversary Celebration
3—6 pm Jack and Linda Doub
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Lincoln Smith 9:30 to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace
Thursday , September 19, 2013
State-wide Grow It Eat It and Harvest Pot Luck
Wye Re-search
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 ? 9:30 to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Annual Planning Meet-ing
9:30 to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Holiday Luncheon ? ?
Tilghman Terrace 104 Tilghman Ave
Centreville, Md. 21617
From South of Centreville Follow 213 N. into town. Turn right at first light onto Water street and * * pass the PNC bank on your right. Tilghman Ave will be the next street on your right. Turn right onto Tilghman Ave. ** From North of Centreville Follow 213 S. into town. Turn Left on E. Water St. Follow ** directions above. Parking on street and in the rear of building.
Directions to the
monthly meeting!
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The following Master Gardeners have accepted responsibilities to keep the program going until a new coordina-
tor is hired. Please contact them if you have questions/info about these areas and keep dialog flowing! MG Meetings: Monthly meetings will continue to be in Centreville at Tilghman Terrace in 2013. Publicity: Each committee’s chair(s) will be responsible for their own publicity.
Bay-Wise: Kate Greer, Jane Chambers, and Vida Morley Grow It Eat It: Linda Doub MG Interns: Karen Wimsatt and Linda Doub A Garden Affair: Carol Jelich and Jim Persels
Volunteer Hours Entry: Pat Bowell. Volunteer hour forms can be sent to the Extension Office or directly to Pat at [email protected] Directory Changes: Please send any updates to Sabine Harvey, [email protected] Extension Advisory Council (lets Extension office know what MG program needs are): Linda & Jack Doub, Jim Persels, and Sue D’Camera 3rd Thursday Centreville Demonstration Garden Cleanups have started! Contact Debbie Pusey for more information, [email protected] 410 758-8623 Plant Clinics Alternate Saturdays at Chestertown Farmers Market: Sabine Harvey [email protected], 410- 810-3890 Kent Island Farmers Market, 2nd Thursday of each month, 3—6:30 pm. Karen Wimsatt, [email protected] Newsletters: Please send anything you would like to see in the newsletter to Sabine Harvey, [email protected] 2013 Training Coordination: will be at WREC on Thursdays from September 12th-November 7nd from 9-3. Linda Doub is the contact: [email protected], 410 827-8613 ANYONE MAY SEND MESSAGES TO THE WHOLE GROUP BY SENDING TO [email protected] . Please direct questions or email address changes to Marty Appel, list serve manager. [email protected], 410-643-4351
QAC MG News:
Steering Committee Members:
Linda & Jack Doub
[email protected] or [email protected]
Sabine Harvey [email protected]
Carol Jelich [email protected]
Debbie Pusey [email protected]
Jane Chambers [email protected]
Kate Greer [email protected]
Vida Morley [email protected]
Jim Persels [email protected]
Karen Wimsatt Jimandkaren.wimsatt @gmail.com
Pat Bowell [email protected]
Susan Seth [email protected]
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May 2013
Check out the new websites!!! extension.umd.edu
On April 2, all of the Extension Offices and Programs switched over to a new “content management
system.” That means that ALL OUR WEBSITES and ALL THE WEBSITE ADDRESSES have CHANGED.
Here are some of the new addresses: Queen Anne’s County Master Gardeners: http://extension.umd.edu/queen-annes-county/home-gardening Maryland Master Gardeners: http://extension.umd.edu/mg Home and Garden Information Center: http://extension.umd.edu/hgic Grow It Eat It: http://extension.umd.edu/growit
Please make sure to change web-addresses in publications, flyers, brochures, press releases etc.
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University of Maryland Extension
Queen Anne’s County
505 Railroad Ave.
Suite 4
Centreville, MD 21617
Vision Statement: A healthier world through environmental stewardship
QACMG Website:
http://extension.umd.edu/queen-annes-
county/home-gardening
University of Maryland Extension
505 Railroad Avenue, Suite 4
Centreville MD, 21617
Phone: (410) 758-0166
Fax: (410) 758-3687
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county/about
May Newsletter Deadline:
May 20 2013
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