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10-Minute University™: Let’s Grow Together !
Every Wednesday and some Thursdays, January 10 – June 12
Free with pre-registration.
*Master Gardener Volunteers: All the upcoming and past 10-Minute University “Let’s Grow Together” webinars are approved for one hour continuing education credit.
April 24, Noon – 1 PM: Ten Proven Ideas for a Bird-Friendly Garden*
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pnhRlW_rRaeMW0_lRZ2lkg
You can create bird habitat anywhere, from a small deck to a large lot. Learn proven ideas for turning your garden into a haven for birds.
We will cover these aspects:
- Specifics about bird feeders and bird food from nature
- Requirements for good nesting boxes and how to place them
- Plants and landscape layers that are optimal for bird habitat
Our speaker, Leah Puhlman, is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener who teaches for the award-winning 10-Minute University™ Program. Leah has transformed her barren and blackberry-infested yard into a garden that is a Certified Backyard Habitat, National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Garden and is on the Homegrown National Park map.
May 1, Noon – 1 PM: Native Plants & Pollinators – What Does the Latest Science Reveal? *
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wVkPMyUKTOaJQHgTRzN7TQ
This class will explore the relationship between native plants & native cultivars with bees, drawing from new and ongoing research in Oregon and elsewhere. We will also share how specialist bees use plants and highlight the lesser-known resources provided by garden plants.
Among the questions we will address are:
- How important are native bees as compared to non-native honeybees?
- Do native bees NEED native plants to survive? Or can they use appropriate non natives?
- Is the basic native plant always more beneficial to native bees than the more
- showy cultivars of that same plant that are sold in the nursery?
- Why DO different bees use different plants?
- Plants don’t bloom all year. What will my native bees eat when my native plant
- stops blooming?
- If I plant things that bring in lots of honeybees, will they also go to my native plants and crowd out the native bees there?
- Which garden plants are best for attracting native bees?
Jen Hayes is a PhD candidate in Oregon State University’s Horticulture Department. She fell in love with native bees as an undergraduate at the University of Vermont. She has studied pollinators in Vermont, Ecuador, North Dakota and Oregon. She is interested in how human-developed landscapes, such as farms and gardens, can achieve dual goals of pollinator conservation and plant productivity.
May 8, Noon – 1 PM: Ground Covers of Every Size for Non-irrigated Landscapes*
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
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Meet an unusual array of (mostly) evergreen groundcovers for use in non-irrigated situations. Each plant meets the criteria of year-round ornamental interest and weed control when planted in a sunny area without summer irrigation.
If this sounds too good to be true, join us and find out from the OSU expert who led a series of plant trials in the past decades. Each trial evaluated plants grown in the field and rigorously assessed for attributes that are important to gardeners.
Our speaker, Neil Bell, is a semi-retired OSU Community Horticulturist, who is working on an OSU project to evaluate 118 olive cultivars at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, Oregon. Before that, he ran trials of manzanitas, grevilleas and other drought-resistant ground covers, many of which have been introduced into the horticultural trade and become staples for home gardeners. Neil collects and cares for a variety of ornamental and edible plants on 5 acres.
May 15, Noon-1 PM: Tomatoes III: Planting & Cultural Best Practices*
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
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This class is the final installment of a series on tomatoes. Each is perfectly timed for what you need to know at that point of the season. In this session, we will pick up at planting out tomatoes into the garden and share best practices in fertilizing, watering, pruning, disease management and storage.
Questions that will be addressed:
- When is the right time to transplant my potted start out into the garden?
- What are the best ways to support my tomato plant?
- How do I grow a tomato plant for better plant health and best tomato flavor?
- How and when do I prune, water and fertilize tomatoes?
- What are the common tomato diseases and disorders? How do I manage them?
- How to best meet weather challenges, environmental problems, and insect pests?
- What will help me get an early harvest?
- How do I maximize the harvest?
- Can tomatoes be stored well? What is the best way to store tomatoes?
Our speaker, Amelia Wilbur, is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener, who teaches for the award-winning 10-Minute University™ Program. She and her husband once co-owned a tomato grafting business. They grow a wide variety of vegetables and fruiting plants on their 3.5-acre home garden and annually harvest more than 500 pounds of tomatoes.
May 22, Noon-1 PM: Growing Root Crops*
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
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Dig deep beneath the surface to better understand root crops. Technically they are not all roots growing at the base of a plant. Discover the various crops that include bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tap roots, tuberous roots and tubers. Investigate the unique cultural foods, gardening practices and growing seasons the varieties encompass.
Learn about root crops to select those that would thrive in your garden and meet your taste and dietary needs. This webinar will begin with an overview of the various types of crops, including staples like potatoes, carrots and onions, then expand to other options like yam, beets, parsnips, daikon radish, rutabagas, jicama, kohlrabi, horseradish, ginger, garlic and more. Next we will address growing conditions, cultural needs and the interconnection of crops, culture and diet.
Our speaker, Priscilla Robinson, is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener, who teaches for the award-winning 10-Minute University™ Program. She gained extensive experience with gardening in raised beds when she downsized to a townhouse. Priscilla gardens in a community garden plot and actively participates in “Grow an Extra Row”, a program of the Clackamas County Master Gardener Association. Team members annually grow and donate several thousand pounds of fresh produce to food banks.
May 29, Noon-1 PM: Superpower for Your Vegetable Garden: Growing Cover Crops*
This online seminar is free with advanced registration. Even if you cannot attend live, register anyway. A recording link will be sent two days after the class.
Register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yF_RAJLAQpKbz426QOOLYQ
Cover crops should be part of every vegetable garden. They are what you should be
growing when you are not actively growing a crop. In general, they produce biomass
during a time when the garden is fallow. This biomass is either cut and used as a
mulch or worked directly into the soil. In either case, it becomes a source of organic
matter that improves the water and nutrient-holding capacity of the soil.
Cover crops are quick, easy, cheap and a critical part of maintaining the health and vitality of vegetable garden soil. This session will introduce you to many candidates for cover crops, reviewing the merits and drawbacks of each. We will cover legumes, grasses and other plants as well as provide step-by-step instructions on timing, sowing, growing and incorporating them into the soil.
Our speaker, Sherry Sheng, is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener, who leads and teaches for the award-winning 10-Minute University™ Program. She began teaching gardening classes in 2006 and has many instructional videos to her credit. Sherry gardens at home and at a community garden.
10-Minute University™ is the trademark of short classes on essential gardening information. All presentations are free and each is accompanied by a handout. Oregon State University owns the trademark and Clackamas County Master Gardener™ volunteers develop and manage the program.
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