Remember that the MG plant exchange is on the morning of October 14th at the fairgrounds. Bring the plants you are dividing, and take home something new to try. This is a great way to get started on new ideas for you garden. This month's website is from Cornell University Extension and the Department of Floriculture and Horticulture. The list goes on and on.
Colorful slides accompany the information.
If you have been a Mentor in the past or would like to be one for 2001 Incoming Class of Master Gardeners, please call Linda at 434-8910 soon. I had a great time dreaming over this and that until I made the final decisions, which made your gift even more of a treat. In return, I wanted to let you know what delights your gift has purchased. First, a brief review of my garden situation - I have a standard city lot here in McMinnville, surrounded on two sides by street, and bounded by a neighbor's fence and an alley. Because of my bad knees the garden was totally ignored last year and had sprouted the usual assortment of giant weeds, nasty burrs, field bindweed and otherwise durable but undesirable plant life.