Salt Lake Master Gardener Blog

Meeting Dates

We hope you will join us at an upcoming meeting! Please bring plants to the plant exchange!

April-

Topic: Annual Plant Exchange

Date: Thursday, April 24^th 2014

(note this is the 4^th Thursday)

6:30 Meeting and plant exchange

Location: Murray Park

Pavilion #5

It's time to swap plants! Do you have some extra starts from all your indoor seed starting experiments? Did you thin some plants in your yard? Bring your extras and take home something new.

May-

Topic: Plant Diagnostics

by JayDee Gunnell, USU Salt Lake County Extension Agent

Date: Thursday, May 15^th, 2014

6:30 Social / 7:00 Meeting

Location: USU Extension Classroom (room S1008)

Salt Lake County Bldg, 2100 S State

** remember to sign in/out with security in north building **

“Master Gardener” carries an expectation that anyone associated with the program is an expert on anything to do with plants, insects, diseases and any other maladies that might be connected with anything that goes wrong in the landscape. However the “art” of diagnosis is not always easy. JayDee will walk us trough the diagnostic process and discuss common and uncommon plant problems.

2013 Awards Banquet

The Salt Lake Master Gardener's annual awards banquet was held Friday, November 22nd, 2013. It was a great evening to celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of our members. We recognized volunteers tor their outstanding commitment to the Master Gardener program and for achieving great things:

Volunteer Hour Recognition

100 Hours: Sandy Silletto, Paula Lediard, Debbie Stevenson, Sara Anderson

250 Hours: Gigi Brandt, Terry Curling, Cheri Schulzke, Diane Curtz, Illene Mirabella, Tony Mirabella, Barbara Andrade, Peggy Watson

500 Hours: Jan Konold

750 Hours: Jerry Milne

1000 Hours: Ron Jones, Sandy Burgess

1250 Hours: Peggy Call

Awards

Silver Trowel Award – Nominated by project leaders and awarded to master gardener's who demonstrate extraordinary enthusiasm in a project by putting in extra hours, either hands-on or in research.

Sandy Silletto for Gilgal Gardens. Sandy has been a terrific asset to the garden. She is enthusiastic, cheerful, and always contributing great ideas. Graduating in 2012, she came almost every week to the garden last year and most days brought along her husband John (a whirling dervish with a shovel!) to help. They are both hard workers and fun to work with. Sandy was a career school teacher but now retired as a Master Gardener she prefers to just get her hands dirty and gain gardening knowledge from those around her.

Amy Hargreaves-Judzis for Garden Patch Newsletter. Amy has been instrumental in getting the Garden Patch Newsletter back on its feet. She took a jumbled mess of information and format and organized it into a readable, mailable form. Her efforts greatly improved the communication of our group!

Outstanding Volunteers Award – A SLMGA Master Gardener who goes above and beyond in volunteering many hours at our projects and demonstrating extra dedication during the year to the Association and community.

Tony and Ilene Mirabella. Tony and Ilene take great care of our organization. They can always be counted on to help with monthly meetings, big events or anywhere that there is a need. Thank you for your hard work!

LeeAnn Ehrhart. LeeAnn demonstrated a great willingness to help this year but heading up the Garden Patch Newsletter and maintaining our blog. Her eagerness to help is greatly appreciated!

Don & Bev Sudbury Award – This award is given periodically to a Master Gardener who exemplifies the spirit of the Sudbury's in his/her dedication demonstrated by long-term service to the Association.

This year, Judi Short exemplified the Sudbury's love of gardening and serving the community by her extraordinary dedication to Gilgal Gardens. She kept the garden running and volunteers coming in, as well as spear headed memorials to our dear friend Bev Sudbury. Thank you for your service Judi!

Master Gardener of the Year Award – This annual award recognizes outstanding dedication and service of a SLMGA Master Gardener. Congratulations to Terry Curling!

Meeting dates, times and locations

Salt Lake Master Gardener Association

Upcoming Meeting Dates

September General Meeting:

Putting Your Garden to Rest

-Ron Jones

Date: Thursday, September 19^th,2013

Time: 6:30 pm Social / 7:00 pm Meeting

Place: USU Extension Classroom (Room S1008)

SL County Building, 2100 S. State

Think your growing season is ending? Maybe it has just begun! Join us for an informative discussion on fall gardening and share your own tips with fellow master gardeners.

October General Meeting:

Greenhouse Gardening

-Schmidt's Farm and Greenhouse

Date: Thursday, October 17^th,2013

Time: 6:30 pm Social / 7:00 pm Meeting

Place: Room N4017 (due to elections, our meeting will be in the North building)

SL County Building, 2100 S. State

Meet one of the few urban farmers in the Salt Lake Valley and find out how Grandpa Schmidt took a backyard hobby to a full time farm and greenhouse. The Schmidt's grow most of their stock from seed... perhaps they will share some of their growing secrets with us!

November General Meeting:

Holiday Celebration

- All Master Gardener's

Date: Friday, November 22^nd,2013

Time: 6:30 pm

Place: Stake Center

9000 South 2901 West

It's time to celebrate another season of gardening. Come reflect on the year and share your gardening stories with other Master Gardeners. Main course, drinks and surprises provided by SLMGA.

December General Meeting:

No meeting or activities scheduled this month. We look forward to seeing you in the new year! Meetings will resume the third Thursday of the month in January.

We hope to see you at an upcoming event!

SLMGA Board

In Loving Memory Bev Sudbury

It is with sad hearts we bid farewell to Beverly Sudbury. Her easy smile, her warm embrace and her love of gardening.

Bev passed away Friday, May 31st, 2013.

Services will be held Thursday June 6, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Larkin
sunset Gardens, 1950 East, 10600 South, Sandy, Utah.

A viewing will be Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 at Larkin
Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah and one
hour prior to services at Larkin Sunset Gardens.

Gilgal Gardens won't be the same without her.

Neither will the Master Gardener parties.

She touched all our lives and will be greatly missed.
- Salt Lake Master Gardeners

May & June SLMGA Meeting Dates

General Meeting Thursday May 16^th2013 at 7:00 pm

A Tour of the Roof Garden on the LDS Conference Center.

Location: 60 West North Temple, Salt Lake City.
** We will meet at the LDS Conference Center door #15 which faces North Temple Street**

Master Gardener Christena Gates will give us a guided tour of this unique three acre rooftop garden which incorporates waterfalls, native flowers and grasses. She wrote the script for the public tours given there and has some interesting stories to tell about the history of the garden.

Christena was a previous Director of garden tours at Temple Square and was involved in some of the garden bed designs. She has also given lectures on and is quite knowledgeable about Shade Ornamentals.

Come join us on this spring evening for an enjoyable and informative outdoor event.

General Meeting Thursday June 20th, 2013 (6:30 social time, 7:00 meeting)

A Night of Orchids

Location: USU Ext Classroom (2100 S State, Rm S1008)

Clinton Lewis, owner of Orchid Dynasty, will share his passion for orchids. Join us to find the orchid for you!

Annual Plant Exchange, Thursday April 25th

We spent a lovely evening at Murray Park for our annual plant exchange. It was fun to see what's growing in everyone's garden. Thanks for the tomatoes, grasses, daffodils, geraniums and more! For those of you who missed it, here are the items we discussed during our meeting.

Judi Short gave an update on the Gilgal Garden Sale. Over $300 was raised that will go to maintain the garden. Thanks to everyone that donated plants or time!
Terry Curling asked for volunteers to help at Murray Park. In exchange for the use of their pavilion for our Summer Party, Master Gardeners will be doing a cleanup project at the Murray City Park. This will take place on Monday May 6th beginning at 9:00 am.We will meet with Becky Hansen at the parks office which is just to the south of the pavilion and work until around noon. Please bring your own tools… shovels, loppers, rakes etc. If you can’t volunteer for the whole time just stay as long as you can. Hope to see you there. No need to RSVP but direct questions to Terry Curling (terryc@digis.net)
The Utah County Hidden Gardens Tour is coming north to Sandy/Draper.

Utah County Master Gardener's invite you to join us in discovering some of Utah's most beautiful private gardens. This year's tour will include 12 “hidden” gardens from Sandy to Draper, gardening workshops and a mystery plant contest with special prize drawings!

17^th Annual Hidden Garden Tour

June 7-8^th, 2013

Tickets $13 (advance), $16 (at garden)

All proceeds support the Larry Sagers Endowment Fund

For more information, call (801) 851-8460 or hiddengarden.org

April and May SLMGA Meeting Dates

Don't miss our upcoming SLMGA Meetings, they should be fun!

General Meeting Thursday April 25^th 2013 at 6:30 pm (Note this is the 4^th Thursday)

Annual Master Gardener Plant Exchange

Location: Murray Park Pavilion # 5 /5200 So. State

Please plan to bring your extra plants and starts to exchange with fellow Master Gardeners. Come and share your vegetables, flowers, bulbs, day lilies or anything else you would like to trade or donate. Please make sure the plants are labeled and include any special care or planting instructions, also remember to bring something to transport your plants in such as boxes or tray.

This is always a fun event to find out what everyone in growing in their gardens and maybe take home some interesting new plants. We will start the exchange promptly at 6:30 so please don’t be late!