Garden Tales

Coordinators Comments: By Mona Bawgus Hello Master Gardeners: Congratulations to the 27 new Rutgers Master Gardener interns (see page 6 for individual names and picture). Graduation was celebrated on June 14th at the Atlantic City Aquarium which looked so beautiful. This class has proven already to be a very hard working class and their efforts have been greatly appreciated. Congratulations also to our new Certified Master Gardeners. (See page 4 for individual names). The following day was Master Gardener Day at the Aquarium which was a huge success. Emails have been sent to the press thanking the gentleman that wrote the article letting them know about the event. Approximately 80 people were given tours of the grounds, as well as having their Sandy Storm questions answered. All of our projects have been moving along smoothly and as I look back on the year, we have accomplished a lot. The helpline has been busy and with the current rainy weather it can only get busier. If you would like to be a mentor please contact me and we can try to schedule some time to help the new class. In the meantime Happy Gardening! ~Mona

Important Dates June

21 Helpline Roundtable 10 AM July 12 MGA Meeting 12pm @ Patty Dorr-Lewin’s home

14 Little Gardens Club Garden Tour 19 Woody Plant Conference 25 Margate Farm Market 26 Helpline Roundtable 10 AM

August 1 Margate Farm Market 8-10 Atlantic County 4-H Fair 16 MGA Meeting 12PM @ Mary McDermott’s home 23 Helpline Roundtable 10 AM

Atlantic County Master Gardener Association Newsletter

June 2013Volume 10, Issue 2

Project Updates 2 Plant Sale 3

Helpline 4 Newly Certified MG’s 4 Master Gardener Day at Atlantic City Aquarium 5 Class of 2013 6 Featured Plant 6 Look Where I’ve Been 7 Birthdays 8

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June 2 Garden Tales

Project Updates Demo Garden – Located at Mays Landing Extension Office Ann Cinquina, Chairperson New plantings at the Demo Garden this growing season included lettuce, spinach, kale, collards tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and marigolds. The strawberries and asparagus continue to do well. Ongoing projects at this site include building a new compost bin, finishing the fill-in for concrete block raised beds and completing the wooded areas around the garden. Visitors to this garden can learn what herbs and vegetables are grown during the current season while the perennial gardens offer both shade and sun options with a color theme. Visitors will find containers throughout the garden that provide sun/shade/herb/annual and perennial options for added interest to the garden. Factsheets are currently being worked on to provide more information to the public on the plants in numbered raised beds and shortly this information will be available for the perennial color themed beds as well. County Extension Office Project – Doug Groff, Chairperson Visitors to the office will see that the area left of the walkway has been planted with inkberry, spirea, sedum and blue fescue. Last year’s plantings of daffodils brought a wonderful spring welcome of yellow blooms that brought many compliments. Hydrangeas, blueberries, and ninebarks that were planted at the beginning of this project continue to flourish. We are attempting to get mulch for the area to maintain moisture. The circular area around the front tree will be worked over the summer and fall. Planting will include many native flowers with year round interest. Hope Community Garden – Mona Bawgus, Chairperson The gardeners were supplied with warm season crops which included tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, and basil. The collards and kale that were planted the previous month were doing well. Many have decorated their beds and there was a sense of community between all the gardeners. A banner has been made but because of security issues cannot be kept up all the time. The Master Gardeners, specifically Sue Scarlett and Bill Johnson, will be making periodic visits in the upcoming months. Pleasantville South Main Street School – Mona Bawgus, Chairperson Eight classes came out at 15 minute intervals to plant a warm season plant. They took turns either digging the hole or planting the plant. They also made signs for the particular plant. Tomatoes – cherry and slicing, peppers- sweet and Jalapeno, cucumbers, eggplant, beans, basil, and zucchini. We will return to plant sweet potato slips when they arrive.

Plant Sale

set up on Friday May 17. Many certified sale opened at 10:00 on Saturday. All the

:45. We began the sale with Of those left, 77 were basil. Very roughly, our income was $4,500

t sale committee will meet on Friday, June ails will be available after that date, as will the

end of the meeting, Lynn Kell and Annette 14 sale. Thank you to everyone who

Gail appreciate all your hard work and your support.

June 3 Garden Tales

The annual plant sale was held on Saturday, May 18, withMGs and interns participated in this successful event. The native plants and nearly all the succulents and herbs were gone by 101,071 plants and ended with 129. and expenses $1,700, so we made about $2,800. The plan21 at 12:30 for a post sale meeting. More precise detresults of the inventory data and customer surveys. At the DiPietrae will take the helm and begin planning the 20participated in the sale in any way. Paula and

June 4 Garden Tales

“Green Thumb” Articles Use the following Green Thumb articles as resources for clients while volunteering for the help-line. The articles are located in the “Green Thumbs” binder on the bookshelf in the help-line office:

Rhododendron Midge

Purple Deadnettle Daffodils Failing to Bloom

Lettuce Drop Carpenter Bees

Black Flies Ground Dwelling Bees

Trellising Tomatoes

Helpline Roundtable Meetings

June 21, July 26, August 23

Meetings are held at 10AM here at the office to discuss what is currently going on in the helpline office. This is a great tool for those working the helpline.

Helpful hints for the helpline Work with a partner – While one person is

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client. No calls for the day? – Read!! Look back at the previous calls to keep yourself in the loop about recent inquiries so you might have the answer for the next client. Sending fact sheets? - Please look in the file drawer before printing. Chances are you will find 2 sided copies of what you are researching and will not need to print. Have a walk-in? – Please fill out the Home/Farm/Field/Office visit form located by the phone on the helpline desk and turn it in to Anita. Make sure you ask where the client has heard about our helpline and fill out the pink box on the Problem/Inquiry sheet.

on the phone the other can listen and puinformation pertaining to the call. No personal advice – No matter what you might do in your garden we must only give scientifically researched information to the

Helpline

Topics to look forward to when working the Help-Line:

• Lawns o Red thread o Anthracnose o Dollar Spot o Fairy Ring

• Vegetables o Downy Mildew o Colorado Potato Beetle o Cabbage Looper

• Landscape plants o Scale o 4-lined Plant Bug

• Ticks and Their Control/ID • Poison Ivy and It’s Control • Soil Tests

o Kits $20 o pH only - $2 - done here at

office. Customer must bring at least a cup of soil to complete test.

Newly Certified Master Gardeners

George Bassett, Annette DiPietrae

Patty Dorr-Lewin, Anthony Giacoppo Mary-Lou Monihan, Myra Reese

Elsa Sanchez, Laurie Stoner Laura Widell

Master Gardener Day at Atlantic City Aquarium

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June 5 Garden Tales

Rutgers Atlantic County Master Gardeners hosted over 80 visitors for tours of the Atlantic City Aquarium gardens. Visitors were treated to tours by knowledgeable

Master Gardeners who work on this project weekly planting and caring for salt tolerant and native plants to southern New Jersey.

Class of 2013 Graduates!!

Featured Plant

Phlox divaricata ‘Blue Moon’ (Woodland phlox, Wild sweet William)

Height : 12-18” Spacing: 12-15”

Zones: 4-8

Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade

Bloom time: Spring

Ann Cinquina [05] made another one of her beautiful cakes for our graduating class. This graduation/June meeting was organized by Bessie McGowan [08] and her hospitality committee members. The following is a list of the 2013 graduates in alphabetical order: Winston Ancheta, Jeanette Campbell, Monica Corpus, Kathy Crane, Richard Goldberg, Miriam Hall, Jeanne Holbrook, Marian Jordan, Melinda Kaplan, Daniel Loen, Linda Mantello, Don McBride, Kathy McCormick, Charlotte McDowell, Johanne Milnes, Kathleen Nickolich, Sheree Pace, Helene Pfaff, Dudley Prince, Ashraf Rateb, Charmaine Roman, Bob Sergeant, Leonard Walk, Juanita Willis, Tonya Wright, Doerthe Zaniewski, and Robert Zaniewski. Congratulations to all!!!

This perennial can be found in our demo garden here at the Mays Landing office in the garden area with the red twig dogwood. Its beautiful color and wonderful fragrance makes it stand out in the garden during early spring. This is a native, carefree groundcover that also attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.

June 6 Garden Tales

June 7 Garden Tales

Who: Doug Groff – Class of 2011 ands and Belgium Where: Netherl

My wife and I just recently returned from a trip to Netherlands and Belgium. The cruise was called Tulips and Windmills. We saw many windmills, but due to the coldest weather the Netherlands had seen in 116 years there were no tulips blooming in the fields. Overall the trip was fantastic and we did eventually see thousands of tulips growing at Keukenhof Gardens ‘ indoor pavilions. Attached are several photos of the beautiful tulips we saw during our visit to the pavilions. Enjoy!

Tulipa ‘Canasta’

Tulipa ‘Yellow Sun’

Have you traveled and taken pictures of anything related to agriculture? Feel free to send in pictures with an explanation. My idea is to have you take a picture with a previous issue of Garden Tales in hand!!! Thanks ~ Anita

June 8 Garden Tales

Rutgers Atlantic County Master Gardener Newsletter

Published by:

Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County

6260 Old Harding Highway Mays Landing, NJ 08330 (609) 625-0056 ext. 6123

Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Edited by:

Mona Bawgus Program Associate - Agriculture

Cooperative Extension Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 88 Lipman Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525 Official Mail

Atlantic County Master Gardener Program Newsletter

UHappy Birthday Master Gardeners!!

Extended MG Helpline Hours

UJuly - September U9 am – 3 pm

UJune 2 Roz Herlands* 11 Sandra Templeton* 13 Robin Lara*

UJuly 17 Annette DiPietrae 29 Johanne Milnes 31 Camille Griffin

* Happy Belated

UAugust 1 Dudley Prince 13 Glenn Pavlis 19 Myra Reese 19 Barb D’Augustine