Thursday, November 15th is the Matthews School day this month for Master Gardeners. Anyone who wants to help students plant bulbs is welcome to meet me at the Extension office at 9:30am. so that we can arrive at Matthews around 9:45. The young ones do the hard work- we just help them do it properly. If you'd like to help, bring trowels, bulb planters, and gloves (be sure to label your tools with your name). We'll need to help the students by cutting chicken wire to go over the bulbs once they are planted.
This week some 4-Her's and a parent volunteer planted the rain garden and Dallas Ann Dennis made sure the mulch went in in it and in bare spots of the rest of the landscaped area.
Earlier in the week Betty Drafall and Kate Jarrett harvested a load of eggplant and they continue to bear (at least until we see a really cold snap). Kate also came back and cleaned out the corn stalks and the spent beans. There are tomatoes on some of the late planted tomato plants now. Not ripe, but large enough to pick green if needed. The fall garden crops are coming along nicely. And all this in the absence of much water (OK, so we had some much needed rain last week, but that's it).
On Monday the exemptions that were allowed within the outdoor waterban went away, so I've been trying to get that word out to green industry and to help them look for alternatives for their businesses.
More people are picking up copies of the instructions for making rain barrels and evaluating our working model out front.
Next week there's loads of activity too! Check the Paulding County Extension website for news and events:
I hope I'll see you sometime soon!
MC
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