Payson Community Gardenâs Bill Pitterle explains water scheduling and optimizing water-saving techniques essential to conserve our limited resource â while still producing a bumper crop of vegetables, green and fruits. This free online water webinar is at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 8.
The program is a collaboration with University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Gila County, the Zoom link for the presentation is arizona.zoom.us/j/86171898681 and you’re welcome to login up to 10 minutes prior to the start time. An easy, convenient way to connect is via “click here” direct hotlinks at extension.arizona.edu/gila. At this site you can also view dozens of prior Thursday webinar topics ranging from soil preparation to winter gardening, container gardening and more.
Using covers for your garden can extend growing seasons â and thwart ravenous rodents, hungry birds and munching insects.
On Thursday, March 11, the team of green-thumbed volunteers with Payson Community Garden discusses how and when to use garden covers during the 11 a.m. free online gardening webinar hosted by the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Gila County.
Topics during the one-hour presentation include the right timing to cover your crops, which materials have been most effective at the community garden, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Payson Community Garden volunteers have learned so much over the years and share their experience and knowledge each Thursday during these ongoing â and popular â webinars.
Glen McCombs, owner of Plant Fair Nursery in Star Valley, has more than a green thumb â he may very well have gardening genes.
âIâm a fourth-generation nurseryman,â he says, âMy great grandfather, Jeremiah McCombs, started a nursery in Ontario, Canada in 1890.â
Glen has worked in the nursery business all his life, except for four years in the armed services. Thanks to years of experience at Tip Top Nursery in Phoenix and people he came to know in the industry, Glen says he was able to increase significantly the plant palate offered in Payson when he opened his store in 1983.