H E A R T O F M I S S O U R I M A S T E R G A R D E N E R N E W S L E T T E R The Heart of Missouri Master Gardeners is a fun, vibrant group that brings together gardeners of all levels by providing engaging educational opportunities and meaningful volunteer projects that enhance and sustain our communities. June, 20 15 University of Missouri Extension Boone County, 1012 North Hwy UU, Columbia, MO 65203 extension.missouri.edu/boone/mg.html At May 19 Meeting Pete Millier, shared new ways to enjoy Mizzou Botanical Garden that is our MU Campus. Photo by Norma Mountjoy Columbia s Hidden Treasure Garden Tour on Wednesday, July 8th 1:30 to 4 p.m. $30 per person Join local expert, Mary Kroening, for a tour of Columbia s gardens by foot and trolley! The tour begins at Shelter Gardens. Tiger Trolley will travel to Mizzou for a tour of Mizzou Botanic Gardens and then on to Giving Gardens where you will have an opportunity to purchase plants. Participants will return via trolley to Shelter Gardens by 4 p.m. Reserve your space by July 3 rd! Limited Space Available. RAIN DATE is July 9 th Contact Tiger Trolley Tours at 573-443-7868 or tigertrolleytours@gmail.com for more information and to reserve your space today TRIPLE B TOUR - TUESDAY, JUNE 30 - Carpooling from Cosmo Park @10 am to McConnell s Plantland, to enjoy our last chance to see and purchase her beautiful hostas and lilies, as this will be Sue McConnell s last year. Bring sack lunch, drink, chairs. We ll drive back to Center for Urban Agriculture. Questions: call or text Carolyn Adams @219-2700 June 20 day trip to St. Charles MG Demonstration Garden serves as June HMMG meeting 8:00 A.M. SATURDAY, June 20, we will leave Home Depot parking lot, in southeast corner near the recycling bins [closest to Taco Bell]. Arrive at St. Charles MG Demo Garden at 9:30. Box lunch brought in [$10 plus tip]. Depart for home 2:30-3:00 p.m. Attending: Gates, Havard, Rothenberger, Paxton, Pasley, Condron, Deegan, Dierker, Ferguson, Smith, Riddles, and Deering. Each attendee needs to bring some gas money to help fill the tank for the driver. Hope we have great weather!it is not too late to join us. Call text, or email Mary Ann Gates by Sunday, June 14 th at 8 pm. 573-999-3457; mgates@socket.net Submitted by Mary Ann Gates, Vice President UM Extension BOONSLICK MASTER GARDENERS Garden Walking Tour Sunday, June 14, 2015 INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for Adults and $4 for Students and can be purchased at the Jail Beginning at 1:00 p.m. the day of the tour. Ticket includes Seven Gardens in the City including The Calaboose Gardens Located at the Historic Jail at 614 E. Morgan Street Featuring Roy Stevens & the Easy Tunes Music Cookies and Lemonade at the Calaboose Gardens Upcoming Events 2 Committee Updates 3 Conference Updates 3 Meet the Masters/Meet the Graduates 4 Officer Contact Information 5
Page 2 Upcoming Events Date Event Info June 14 June 18 June 20 June 23 - Aug 1 June 27-28 Thru August June 30 July1,8,15 July 8 July 16 July 21 Aug 18 Sept. 11-13 Garden Walking Tour The Learning Garden- Third Thursday HMMG - St. Charles Demo Garden (replaces June Meeting) Food Pantry Seed Distribution 2015 St. Louis Water Gardening Society Pond Tour Cole County MG Hotline open Triple B Tour Preserving the Harvest Hidden Treasure Garden Tour The Learning Garden- Third Thursday HMMG Meeting HMMG Meeting State MG Conference Sunday, June 14-1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for Adults and $4 for Students and can be purchased at the Jail 614 E. Morgan beginning at 1:00 p.m. the day of the Tour. Includes 7 gardens in Boonville.. The HMMG Master Gardeners will present Proper Watering, Weeding and Mulching at 6:30 P.M. in the Learning Garden located behind Broadway Christian Church at 2601 W. Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203 HMMG is planning a day trip to St. Charles Demo Garden on June 20. This will serve as our June meeting. The St. Charles Master Gardeners are excited to host our group. TUESDAY June 23 Seed Packing Party. 1-3 p.m. Email Bill McKelvey at McKelveyWA@missouri.edu, to volunteer. AND, Saturdays July 18, 25 and August 1, from 10 a.m-2p.m. HMMG will help with Grow Well Missouri hand out seeds for fall gardening. Call Evette @ 573-864-9232. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. each day. 15 th Annual Pond-O-Rama featuring 45 beautiful water features, from lovely tranquil settings to large magnificent waterfalls are located in both Missouri and Illinois. The SLWGS website is www.slwgs.org. MG s will answer home horticulture questions at the Cole County Extension Center from adjoining and nearby counties on Tuesday and Fridays from 12:30-4:30 pm. Call 573-634-2824 x303 [voice mail will record phone messages] or email muextcolemastergard@missouri.edu Carpooling from Cosmo Park @10 a.m.to McConnell s Plantland, to enjoy our last chance to see Sue McConnell s beautiful lilies and hosta, with an opportunity to purchase before Sue closes the business. Bring sack lunch, drink and chairs. We ll drive back to Center for Urban Agriculture at 1206 Smith St. Questions, call or text Carolyn Adams at 219-2700. 6:00-8:30 p.m. Sign up for one, two or three sessions @$15/session. Registration Deadline is 1 week before the class, @ MU Extension Center. Session 1) Freezing and Drying,2) Water Bath Canning, 3)Pressure Canning. Registration form online at Extension website. For more info, contact instructor Vera Massey 573-9792 or masseyv@missouri.edu. 1:30 4:00 p.m. $30 per person. Join Mary Kroening for tour of Columbia s gardens by foot and trolley! Beginning at Shelter Gardens, Tiger Trolley will travel to Mizzou Botanic Garden, then to Giving Gardens. Trolley will return to Shelter Gardens by 4:00 pm. Reservation at tigertrolleytours@gmail.com The HMMG Master Gardeners will present Insect Control in the Garden and Planting a Fall Garden at 6:30 P.M. in the Learning Garden located behind Broadway Christian Church at 2601 W. Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203 6:00 PM Boone County Extension. Program: Growing and Cooking with Herbs, presented by Carolyn Oates. We will have handout with recipes and tips. Business Meeting will be devoted to all committees meeting, getting all details for conference completed and report back to group what is being done at the end of this meeting. 6:00 PM Boone County Extension. Executing last-minute duties for State MG Conference. We will have an assembly line to fill the 200 welcome bags to be handed out by the Registration Committee at the conference. All hands on deck for Harvest in the Heartland co-hosted by us. Contact Marie Pasley to help, smpasley@aol.com
Page 3 Committee Updates The Learning Garden The plan is for June 1 to kick off with mulch delivery! Our two main paths are to be mulched as well as our perennial plants and small paths. Now that our garden is up and growing, I know that we are all anxious to harvest some crops. Just as in years past, we plan to take our produce to The Food Bank s Central Pantry on Big Bear Blvd. If you are interested in additional information about this community service, here is the link to the pantry: http://sharefoodbringhope.org/central-pantry/ We held our Third Thursday on May 21 st with 12 attendees. Alex Riddles and Ellen Condron presented on Intensive and Successive Planting. You might have seen that Julie Deering placed information about the sessions in The Columbia Tribune. Our next Third Thursday will be held on June 18 at 6:30 pm. Don Day has agreed to provide information on Proper Watering, Weeding and Mulching. We are happy to have NEW and old Master Gardeners come to help us on any work day you have time. We work Mondays at 9:00 am and Thursdays at 5:15 pm. As the summer continues to become hot and dry out a bit, these two work days should provide twice weekly deep watering and harvesting. Questions, or to volunteer, email ellencondron2@gmail.com Submitted by Ellen Condron Future Third Thursday Training in the Garden July 16 Insect control in the garden and Planting a fall garden The Learning Garden and Community Garden is located Behind Broadway Christian Church at 2601 W. Broadway, Columbia, MO Harvest in the Heartland 2015 MG State Conference UPDATE Conference information and registration is on line at www.momga.org. 2015 Harvest in the Heartland will have full committee meeting at the July and August meeting. The July meeting will be devoted to all committees meeting, getting all details for the conference completed and report back to the entire group what is being done at the end of this meeting. The August Meeting will be final minute details and stuffing the Welcome Bags. If you know of any company that might donate an item for each of the 200 welcome bags, please contact Donna Puleo, Registration Committee Chair. You may contact Donna by email at puleod@missouri.edu, or phone 573-882-2077. Submitted by Marie Pasley HMMG Chapter POLO Shirts HMMG Chapter Polo shirts have been ordered by Sandy Perley, and should be available by July Meeting. ****************************************************************** Vendors for the Conference include: Helmi s, Vintage Hill, Strawberry Hill, Piotters, Missouri Wildflower, Callaway Fields, MOMGA, Dept. of Conservation, Native Plant Society, Mary Kroening Tours, Mizzou Botanic Garden, John Pasley, Bluestem, Longfellows, Superior, Giving Gardens, Lakewood Lawn and Garden, Kent s, Songbird Station, Poppy s, Busch s, Frameworks, and A Honey Vendor Heart of Missouri Master Gardeners 2015 Officers President: Evette Nissen 474-3055 enissen57@gmail.com Vice-President: Mary Ann Gates 999-3457 mgates@socket.net Secretary: Tamara Green GreenTa@missouri.edu Treasurer: Sandy Perley perleys@missouri.edu Newsletter: Norma Lea Mountjoy 808-2691 nlmountjoy@yahoo.com
Page 4 Getting to know our Masters..Charles Paxton I am a Master Gardener Intern and just completed the introductory courses last winter. I have been studying or working in horticulture for about 40 years. My experience has taught me that there is a lot to learn and I really like being in a position to learn. I am very proud of my intern status; I intend to always be an intern. I grew up on a cattle/sheep ranch in the mountains of Colorado. Beautiful landscapes are the norm on the ranch and it does not take much input from an individual. Being interested in plant material is also a normal part of life on the ranch. Vegetable gardening, fruit orchards and harvesting from nature were all just part of how life was at the time. I earned a B.S. in Horticulture with emphasis in Nursery and Landscape Management from Colorado State University. After college I worked for the Denver Botanic Gardens for about five years as the Superintendent of Chatfield Arboretum. The Arboretum was a new site without many established trees. When an opportunity to work at the University of Missouri came up I was intensely interested. The fact that there where large trees and an established landscape to work with fascinated me. I have worked on the campus now for 28 years. I have been blessed with a great opportunity at MU. I have worked with an encouraging administration and a great group of groundskeepers and gardeners. We have transformed the campus grounds into a garden during this time. I will be retiring from MU soon. I will miss the social and professional contact that my job provided. My goal is to stay active during retirement. I would like to continue to be involved in horticulture and be in a position that I can learn from others. I also believe that I need to give as much back to the community as I can. I have had an opportunity to meet many of the Master Gardeners over the past few years. I would like to get to know all local Master Gardeners better and look forward to working with them on future projects. Figure 1 HMMG May, 2015 CORE CLASS Graduating Interns In Alphabetical Order: John Ausburn, Amy Dove, Karsten Ewald, Linda Hayes, Don Ladd, Boden Lyon, Sandy McHugh, Linda Rexroad, and Susan Stoltz
The is published monthly for the Master Gardeners in Central Missouri. For more information, contact: Kent Shannon Natural Resources Engineer University of Missouri Extension Boone County 1012 N. Highway UU, Columbia, MO 65203 (573) 445-9792 ext. 310; shannond@missouri.edu June 20 Day Trip to St. Charles MG Demonstration Garden Serves as June HMMG Meeting Leave Home Depot Parking Lot at 8:00 am [southeast corner near recycling bins closest to Taco Bell] Todd Lorenz Regional Horticultural/Agronomy Specialist University of Missouri Extension 510 Jackson Rd. Suite A, Boonville, MO 65233 Cooper County Program Director, 660-882-5661 University of Missouri, Lincoln University, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Local University Extension Councils Cooperating University of Missouri Extension does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability or status as a Vietnam-era veteran in employment or programs. Boone County Extension Center Office Hours are: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. Noon and 12:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Report your Master Gardener hours ONLINE! http://report.missourimastergardener.com/ Heart of Missouri Master Gardeners Helping Others Learn to Grow University of Missouri Extension Boone County 1012 North Highway UU Columbia, MO 65203