Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Vegetable Gardens
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works In The Garden
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Nematodes
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Cooperative Extension with Jamon Glover: Parent Trap, Pt. 1
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Home And Garden Show 03-09-22
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Repot houseplants, dust them with soft moist cloth
- When growing seeds indoors check the media before watering. If the media has moisture check the next day before watering.
- Finish up your pruning chores, fruit trees, grape vines, broadleaf evergreens.
- Bring indoors any plants that you placed outdoors ex houseplants Saturday projected low 21F
- Write out a monthly plan in your garden notebook and keep your journal up to date
- We have excellent gardening publications at Cooperative Extension
- Get your lawn care equipment ready now.
- Always check moisture level of garden soil before tilling that soil
- Plant berries, or maybe next year.
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Cooperative Extension with Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Wildlife Habitat
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Clean and till up vegetable beds and add compost to the beds to increase organic matter.
- Plant cool season crops.
- When growing seeds indoors check the media before watering. If the media has moisture check the next day before watering.
- Get ready to start seed for many warm season crops. I suggest sowing indoors about 4 to 6 weeks before you plan to plant outdoors.
- On warm days 70F or warmer provide ventilation in greenhouses and cold frames if growing plants in them.
- Add dill and fennel to your garden to support swallowtail butterflies.
- We have excellent gardening publications at Cooperative Extension
- Don’t spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a garden or landscape project without first spending $4 for a soil analysis.
- Always check moisture level of garden soil before tilling that soil
Meeting Set For Mar. 8 To Plan For Annual 4-H Poultry Sale
Parents of children between the ages of 5 and 18 with an interest in raising and showing poultry should attend a virtual meeting next week to learn about plans for the 2022 Four County 4-H Poultry Show and Sale.
The meeting will be held via Zoom beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 8. The link is
https://go.ncsu.edu/4countypoultry.
The program provides 10 birds to each youth participant to raise, show and then sell. Each participant must show and sell three of the 10 birds they raise.
The birds will be auctioned at the sale, with proceeds going to the participant and to to the Four County 4-H group. Trophies also will be awarded.
Direct questions to your county’s 4-H agent.
- In Vance County, contact Wykia Macon at 252.438.8188
- In Granville County, contact Lina Howe or Kim Woods at 919.603.1350
- In Warren County, contact Stephen Misenheimer or Matthew Place at 252.257.3640
- In Franklin County, contact Meg Wyatt or Martha Mobley at 919.496.3344