Quick! The rain and
snow have stopped or slowed at best, so let's get started!
As gardeners, we all have started our path with the
interest, desire, and eventual love of the craft. Perhaps your interest started early, inspired
by a loved one or neighbor, or a through a dream of having flower boxes outside
your windows, which is where I began as a child. And with all our trials and errors, we look
to others to help explain our successes and failures.
In my quest for information, I have quizzed long time Routt
County gardening friends, my 94 year old grandmother Wanda, tried every "old wives tale", pored
over old and new gardening books, and have used the " new-fangled"
internet, as my grandmother refers to it. I have completed the CSU Master
Gardener Program twice in my quest for answers, in 2005 and again in 2015. You don’t have to do all of that, however; if you
are looking for gardening advice, information, or just camaraderie, look no
further.
CSU Master Gardener volunteers will be available every
Thursday beginning May 19 through late August, from 9am to 1pm, to answer your
gardening questions. We are located in
the Routt County CSU Extension office, located on 136 6th street in the Routt
County Courthouse Annex.
Master Gardeners welcome inquiries of every kind, from flora
to fauna, pests and plant maladies, and any other questions that you may have. The Extension office is chock full of soil
sample kits, books, pamphlets, access to garden site information on the web,
plus the volunteers and their combined knowledge, all available for your use.
Having manned the post myself, we welcome all inquiries and
try to find solutions to your questions.
Often times, a site visit by Master Gardeners may be scheduled with clients
to better understand the issues at the exact site in question. Last year, we
covered many topics and saw a lot of landscaping issues, such as:
·
Tree planting problems, (too deep, not removing
the root wrap, not enough water, too much water);
·
Aspen tree sicknesses (poor things are living to
die!);
·
The dreaded vole(castor oil, bubble gum,
pinwheels stuck in ground, crown royal bulbs that smell like skunk to deter);
·
What moose browse ( almost everything!); and
·
Seedling and weed identification, (view plant on
site for easier and better ID).
Scheduling a site visit helps define and pinpoint your
concerns, more so than a phone call or an email to the office.
This has been a rather wet spring, slowing progress, so what
better tool to you as a gardener than to have our CSU Master Gardeners on your
side, with information and advice to help simplify parts of your gardening
world and to let you progress to the parts of gardening you love… like weeding!
Contact the CSU Extension Office on Thursdays. We all look
forward to helping you achieve your dream and would love to provide a little
help.
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