Connecticut Gardeners’ 2024 Calendar

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Announcement! The UConn Master Gardeners have assembled a calendar for Connecticut gardeners! There are tips through every month on how to plan and maintain your garden for fresh blooms and abundant vegetables. This year there is additional information on supporting beneficial insects in the landscape, with tips on using integrated pest management, creating habitat for beneficials, and starting native plants by seed in the winter. Photos all submitted by local gardeners and selected by MG Volunteers during a statewide photo contest. 28 pages plus cover. 8.5in x 11in. Folded calendar. 

Purchase it today for pickup or delivery at our marketplace site.

$12 – Local Pickup at County Office

$18 – Delivery

If this piques your interest for more gardening content, visit our articles at:

https://mastergardener.uconn.edu/resources/

Or the Home and Garden Factsheets:

https://homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu/factsheets/

image of the calendar open to the month of january with a photo of a partially frozen lake, text below with description, and calendar months with tips listed.
Sample Page, January

image of calendar front with blue sea holly in background and title "connecticut gardeners' 2024 calendar" Image of calednar back page with 12 months of images and a thank you to our volunteers.

Jardin Para Principiantes

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¿Quieres hacer un jardin pero no sabes cómo empezar?

¡UCONN Master Gardeners pueden ayudarte! Ofrecemos un taller “Jardin para Principiantes” el 14 de marzo del 2023.

La presentación incluye como planificar tu jardin, la siembra, el mantenimiento, y la cosecha de sus vegetales, frutas o flores favoritos. También hablaremos de cómo hacer un jardin en un espacio limitado o en macetas.  ¡No se lo pierdan!

¿Cuándo?:  Martes, el 14 de marzo, 5:30pm-7:30pm

¿Donde?: Willimantic Public Library, 905 Main St, Willimantic

 

Recognizing Diane Gawronski, UConn Master Gardener, for Receiving Haddam Historical Society Award

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We love sharing the accomplishments of Master Gardeners! Diane Gawronski, MG Middlesex Class of 2022, was honored this year with an award by the Haddam Historical Society. See their full post below:
“This year the Haddam Historical Society acknowledged garden volunteer Dr. Diane Gawronski, DMD with the Founders’ Day Award. Diane has been responsible for our spectacular vegetable garden for the past two summers. This year she created an assortment of historic garden trellises including a tomato table and bean teepee. The center teepee not only featured a variety of beans but morning glory and moon flower. Squash and melons grew on a stick trellis and herbs were protected by stick stockades. Diane created an easy- to -read hand-out on “The Historic Art of Garden Trellising” and shared her knowledge with visitors and groups on her creating this delightful space.
Diane came to us as volunteer with the Master Gardener Program and created an artistic masterpiece in our little historic garden. Thank you, Diane.”
Diane Gawronski in front of the Garden Trellis Teepee Historical Article about the art of trellising
A different angle of the trellised beans A different angle of trellised beans

2023 Master Gardener Calendar

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The 2023 UConn Master Gardener Calendar was just published for download or print! While we wont be offering these for purchase this year, the pdf is available for FREE and can easily be printed at home.  This was a culmination of the work of many Master Gardener volunteers working out of the New Haven Office.  We will be sharing the monthly pages as well on all of our social media.  View the calendar here. 

 

New Online Courses: Fundamentals of Home Gardening

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fundamentals of home gardening

Learn the fundamental concepts of horticulture, as taught by UConn Extension  educators and specialists. Based on UConn’s Master Gardener curriculum, this four-part, online series can be taken at your own pace, at times that work for you. Choose just the modules you’re interested in or complete all four sections to earn a certificate of completion in Fundamentals of Home Gardening. 

Classes begin now and run through May 2022. Registration information is posted on https://bit.ly/ExtensionStore. Questions? Email sarah.bailey@uconn.edu.