Gardening Programs This Month
Warren County, Mississippi 
Extension Service Office

Vicksburg Farmer's Market
Saturday Mornings
8 AM to 12 Noon  

 

Mississippi Master Gardeners 

State Conference

"A Gardener's Paradise"

May 14 - May 16

Brookhaven, MS

Register at: 

http://msmastergardener.org/

 

 

 

 Master Gardener Monthly Meeting
"Compost" by Linda Baudo
(Field trip to Linda's home)
May 21, 2013
Noon

 

 Master Gardeners are volunteer educators who have been trained by Land Grant Agriculture Universities to assist in providing information about home gardening. Mississippi State University Extension Service is the branch of M.S.U. that offers the Master Gardener program in the state and is responsible for training and coordinating Master Gardeners. Master Gardeners receive 40 hours of instruction in the basics of home gardening. Topics of study include soil, botany, entomology, plant pathology, pest control and plant propagation. Specific gardening “crops” studied are turf grass, fruits, vegetables and ornamentals such as flowers, shrubs and ground cover plants. 

  New Master Gardeners agree to provide a minimum of 40 hours of volunteer educational efforts within the first year after training. After that, Master Gardeners work a minimum of 20 hours annually to maintain their status as a Master Gardener. The average tenure of a Master Gardener volunteer in Mississippi is four years.  Currently there are 56 Master Gardeners in Warren County. 

May
Warren County, MS
Weather Statistics
Average
High temperature    83.5
Low temperature     61.0
Precipitation (in)      5.1

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Louisiana and Bearded Irises 
Anita Schilling, MG

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