Upcoming Events

Join the Master Gardeners in this three-part series all about roses.

A season long, highly rated, weekly vegetable garden growing experience. Master Gardeners of Franklin County, led by Darl Hospelhorn and Linda Horst, will teach everything you need to know to grow great vegetables, beginning with spring garden preparation, and ending with the final fall harvest.

Penn State Extension is offering its interactive, informative, and low-cost series of classes on diabetes, beginning in late April.

Do you have questions about your garden or landscape? Are you trying to select the right plant for the right place or get rid of those weeds growing in the wrong place? Do you have a mystery plant you can’t identify? The Penn State Master Gardeners in Cumberland County can help you find answers to your home gardening questions at four Plant Clinic locations during the 2013 growing season.

Class Date: May 22, 2013; Exam: May 29, 2013 at 8:00 AM; Registration Deadline: May 15, 2013

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Penn State Master Gardeners are offering a Summer Garden Camp for youth ages 7 to 12 or in grades 3 to 6 at the Penn State Extension office on Allen Road in Carlisle. There will be five sessions of growing, learning, hands-on fun on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on the following dates: June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, and August 6, 2013.

Penn State Extension has nine spring twilight meetings planned for tree fruit growers throughout Pennsylvania. The meetings are held in local orchards. Extension fruit specialists will be on hand to address the pest management and horticultural challenges of the 2013 growing season. Participants also benefit from seeing “how it’s done” at another local orchard in their area. There is no better learning opportunity than to be in the orchard early in the season with Extension specialists and seasoned growers who have committed their careers to studying and growing tree fruit.

1. Review Past Program Activities 2. Review Finances Report & Previous Meeting Minutes 3. Discuss Upcoming Programs & New Business

Class Date: June 5, 2013; Exam: June 12, 2013, 8:00-10:00 AM; Registration Deadline: May 29, 2013

Information Session June 3, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. with classes beginning the week of June 10, 2013, Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. for a six week session. You can increase your strength, improve your bone density, improve your balance, and energy, and you will look and feel better!

Beginning the week of June 10, 2013, Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. for six weeks. You can increase your strength, improve your bone density, improve your balance, and energy, and you will look and feel better!

This hands-on program covers identification of ornamental insects and diseases, plant symptoms, chemical and non-chemical management options.

National Pollinator Week is June 17 to 23, 2013. To mark the occasion, join Penn State Master Gardeners in Cumberland County for a Butterfly Container Workshop on Saturday, June 15, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Cumberland County Extension office, 310 Allen Road, Carlisle.

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Home Gardening Series. Beginners and advanced gardeners alike will learn some new techniques at the series of classes offered this year by the York County Master Gardeners.

At this workshop, you will learn more about planning and strategies to help mitigate EAB-related risks.

Not just another garden tour, the Gardening with Native Plants – The Tour is a great opportunity to learn how to make your yard more environmentally friendly. Sponsored by Penn State Extension and Mid-Atlantic Ecological Landscapes (MAEscapes) five homeowners in York County will open their properties on Saturday, June 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and show you how they are using native plants to conserve water, reduce pesticide and fertilizer use and create habitat for wildlife.

Mark your calendars now for the 2013 International Fruit Tree Association Study Tour July 16-17, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The theme of the tour is Heritage and Innovation. Plan on a barbecue at the Round Barn Orchard on the first night of the tour. The Young Grower Alliance (YGA) led the planning for the tour, which will include optional opportunities to visit orchards on the 15th in Bedford County and the 18th in Thurmont, Maryland. The Historic Gettysburg Hotel will be the tour Headquarters.

Opportunities for growers and industry personnel to learn about the latest Penn State research, to tour facilities and research field plots, and engage in Q & A with research and Extension faculty.

1. Review Past Program Activities 2. Review Finances Report & Previous Meeting Minutes 3. Discuss Upcoming Programs & New Business

Home Gardening Series. Beginners and advanced gardeners alike will learn some new techniques at the series of classes offered this year by the York County Master Gardeners.

This hands-on program covers identification of ornamental insects and diseases, plant symptoms, chemical and non- chemical management options.