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.
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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.
Payson and Rim Country have abundant examples of badly pruned trees: from mangled maples to pitiful Ponderosa pines. Donât force your beautiful shade trees to suffer from improper pruning. Winter is the optimal season for pruning â trees have dropped their leaves and are dormant during the coldest months of January and February â making them more adaptive to pruning.
Cooperative Extension Agent Chris Jones and Master Gardener Jan Groth team up this week to host an online webinar at 11 a.m., Thursday Jan. 21, taking both camera and pruning shears outside for a live demonstration of proper pruning techniques.
As always, the program is offered free and online by the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Gila County, part of a weekly webinar series exploring a variety of horticultural and natural resource topics applicable to Gila County.