Page 11 - Master Gardener Program News Today

Submitted by the League of Women Voters Observer Corps.

Berkeley Co. Extension Office closed July 4MARTINSBURG — The WVU Berkeley County Extension Office will be closed on Tuesday, July 4 and will reopen 8 a.m. on Wednesday, July 5.

Cornell Cooperative Extension in Cattaraugus County’s Master Gardener Program received rare nine-spotted ladybugs, larvae and eggs as part of Cornell’s “Lost Ladybug” project to help re-establish local native populations across

Attend a workshop on starting a cottage food business

Dorothy Hoffman, left, and Anne Steurer, both of Port Townsend, examine a water feature in the backyard garden of Niki Kobes and Tom Riette in Carlsborg, one of five featured gardens during Saturday’s 28th annual Petals & Pathways home garden tour.

Lawns are often cut too short. For fescue lawns we can set the mower to 3 inches and leave it there all season.

What is the summer solstice?

Visit local farm marketsMARTINSBURG — As spring turns into summer, locally grown produce is becoming more and more available. Nothing tastes better than fresh picked strawberries, cherries and blueberries, etc.

KINGSTON — What might be the best summer road trip in Rhode Island takes place this weekend when 18 private and public gardens, tended by University of Rhode Island Master

The Lackawanna Historical Society’s classic home and garden tour explores beyond where it’s gone before.