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        • Heirloom Vegetable Seeds, Cool Season
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        • Vegetable Love, The Edible Landscape in January
        • Peas Edible Landscape
        • How To Dig A Vegetable Garden - Soil Science And Preparation
        • Warm Season Vegetables & Fruits: Edible Landscaping
        • Growing & Feeding Container Vegetables
        • Organic, Heirloom And Regular Seeds-What To Plant And Why
        • Organic Vs. Chemical Gardening Practices
        • The Quest for the Perfect Tomato
        • Cover Crops and Garlic
        • Tomato Primer the basics
        • Fall Greens for the Edible Landscape
        • Grow Lettuce
        • The Tomato Wars heirlooms vs. hybrids
        • Okra is more than a vegetable
        • Hill of Beans
        • Sweet Potatoes & Yams
        • Seasonal Edible Planting Layouts for Raised Bed Gardens
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        • Rosemary Darling Of The Kitchen
      • FOOD Health Organics >
        • Eat Local
        • LOCAL food in Mecklenburg
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        • Grow Healthy Kids with Gardening
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        • Okra Southern Food
        • Sweet Potatoes
        • Let Us Eat Lettuce
        • Green Leafy Friends
        • Canning Basics 101
        • Snappy Green Beans
        • Tasty Peas
        • Gardener Skin Care
        • Summer Heat Safety
        • Produce Your Produce Grow Guide
      • BULBS, Rhizomes >
        • Coo-Coo for Crocus
        • Bulbs for Spring Planting, Summer Bloom
        • Tall Bearded Irises Dig Divide
        • Bulbs For Fall Planting Spring Bloom In Mecklenburg County And Region
        • Cool Crinum Beat the Heat
        • Silly Scilla! in September
        • Daylily 'Genesta' Tall Blond
      • NATIVE Plants >
        • Natives With Winter Interest
        • Native Plants for All Seasons
        • Ameliorating Habitat Loss
        • Native Plants With Spring Interest
        • Tough Plants for Tough Times
      • Invasive Exotics
      • FAVORITE Plants >
        • Japanese Maple Ferns Black Mondo - A Winning Combination
        • Spring Woodland Gift
        • Winning Perennial Plant Combo
        • How to Stop A Car!
      • FRUIT >
        • Easy Fruit Growing
      • PERENNIAL Flowers >
        • Gardening Basics
        • Seeds for Winter Sowing
        • Right Plant Right Place
        • Black Lenten Rose
        • Trillium
        • Amur Adonis
        • Hosta 'Empress Wu'
        • Wa-Hoo For Waipahu!
        • Chrysanthemum
        • Ranunculus
        • Ragged Robin
        • Toadflax Canon J. Went
        • Spurge Euphorbia
      • SHRUBS, pruning >
        • Pruning Boxwoods
        • Paperbush Edgeworthia
        • Camellia Primer
        • Spider Azalea
        • Garden Borders
      • LAWNS Groundcover
      • GARDEN DESIGN >
        • Rain Gardening
        • Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Garden
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        • White Cedar Cypress
        • Growing Conifers in the South
        • Select Pines for Carolinas
        • Eastern Red Cedar
        • Yews and Plum Yews
        • Hemlocks Tsuga
        • Japanese Cedars
        • Spruces Picea
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        • Flowering Apricot
        • Witch Hazel Hybrids
        • Redbud Primer
        • Dogwood Primer
        • Growing Bamboo
        • Crape Myrtle 'Violet Filli'
        • Earth-Friendly Lawn
        • Managing Lawns Environmentally
        • Acer palmatum 'Bihou'
      • SOIL compost >
        • SOIL in the Piedmont
        • SOIL pH guide
        • SOIL Mecklenburg basics
        • Topsoil the dirt about
        • Prep SOIL for transplants
        • Build SOIL fertility
        • Garden Recycling: Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes . . .
        • MICROCLIMATES
        • Heat Wave Garden Tips
        • Why Should We Care about Biodiversity
        • Why Biodiversity Is Slipping Away
        • Plant Hardiness Zones From The USDA (2012 update)
        • Biological Islands for Cleaner Water Purification through Floating Treatment Wetlands
      • BUGS & Insects >
        • YELLOW JACKETS look out!
        • SLUGS a beer fest
        • HORNWORM control
      • WILDLIFE, Varmints >
        • DEER stinky control that works
        • RABBITS defend your garden
        • SQUIRRELS what really works
        • VOLES what will & won't work
        • MOLES what works
        • PESKY 'POSSUMS
        • PESKY RACCOONS
        • SNAKES gracious Alive!
  • Donations/Honorariums
  • HOME
    • About Master Gardener Volunteers
    • Become A Master Gardener Volunteer
    • Demonstration GARDENS
    • 2018 Master Gardener training
    • Publications
  • EVENTS
  • Contact/Requests
    • Speaker Request
    • Garden HELP Desk
    • School/Community Garden Consultation
  • Educational Materials
    • GARDEN CALENDAR >
      • January winter
      • February to do list
      • March timely tips
      • April 15th last frost
      • May spring frenzy
      • June garden tasks
      • July summer tasks
      • August hot summer
      • September gardens
      • October fall begins
      • November planting
      • December gardens
      • Garden TOPIC search
    • Gardening Articles >
      • VEGETABLES >
        • Heirloom Vegetable Seeds, Cool Season
        • Heirloom Vegetable Seeds for Summer Crops
        • Vegetable Love, The Edible Landscape in January
        • Peas Edible Landscape
        • How To Dig A Vegetable Garden - Soil Science And Preparation
        • Warm Season Vegetables & Fruits: Edible Landscaping
        • Growing & Feeding Container Vegetables
        • Organic, Heirloom And Regular Seeds-What To Plant And Why
        • Organic Vs. Chemical Gardening Practices
        • The Quest for the Perfect Tomato
        • Cover Crops and Garlic
        • Tomato Primer the basics
        • Fall Greens for the Edible Landscape
        • Grow Lettuce
        • The Tomato Wars heirlooms vs. hybrids
        • Okra is more than a vegetable
        • Hill of Beans
        • Sweet Potatoes & Yams
        • Seasonal Edible Planting Layouts for Raised Bed Gardens
      • HERBS >
        • Rosemary Darling Of The Kitchen
      • FOOD Health Organics >
        • Eat Local
        • LOCAL food in Mecklenburg
        • Carolina Produce
        • Grow Healthy Kids with Gardening
        • Grow Top 6 Veggies
        • Okra Southern Food
        • Sweet Potatoes
        • Let Us Eat Lettuce
        • Green Leafy Friends
        • Canning Basics 101
        • Snappy Green Beans
        • Tasty Peas
        • Gardener Skin Care
        • Summer Heat Safety
        • Produce Your Produce Grow Guide
      • BULBS, Rhizomes >
        • Coo-Coo for Crocus
        • Bulbs for Spring Planting, Summer Bloom
        • Tall Bearded Irises Dig Divide
        • Bulbs For Fall Planting Spring Bloom In Mecklenburg County And Region
        • Cool Crinum Beat the Heat
        • Silly Scilla! in September
        • Daylily 'Genesta' Tall Blond
      • NATIVE Plants >
        • Natives With Winter Interest
        • Native Plants for All Seasons
        • Ameliorating Habitat Loss
        • Native Plants With Spring Interest
        • Tough Plants for Tough Times
      • Invasive Exotics
      • FAVORITE Plants >
        • Japanese Maple Ferns Black Mondo - A Winning Combination
        • Spring Woodland Gift
        • Winning Perennial Plant Combo
        • How to Stop A Car!
      • FRUIT >
        • Easy Fruit Growing
      • PERENNIAL Flowers >
        • Gardening Basics
        • Seeds for Winter Sowing
        • Right Plant Right Place
        • Black Lenten Rose
        • Trillium
        • Amur Adonis
        • Hosta 'Empress Wu'
        • Wa-Hoo For Waipahu!
        • Chrysanthemum
        • Ranunculus
        • Ragged Robin
        • Toadflax Canon J. Went
        • Spurge Euphorbia
      • SHRUBS, pruning >
        • Pruning Boxwoods
        • Paperbush Edgeworthia
        • Camellia Primer
        • Spider Azalea
        • Garden Borders
      • LAWNS Groundcover
      • GARDEN DESIGN >
        • Rain Gardening
        • Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Garden
      • CONIFERS >
        • White Cedar Cypress
        • Growing Conifers in the South
        • Select Pines for Carolinas
        • Eastern Red Cedar
        • Yews and Plum Yews
        • Hemlocks Tsuga
        • Japanese Cedars
        • Spruces Picea
      • TREES, care, resources >
        • Flowering Apricot
        • Witch Hazel Hybrids
        • Redbud Primer
        • Dogwood Primer
        • Growing Bamboo
        • Crape Myrtle 'Violet Filli'
        • Earth-Friendly Lawn
        • Managing Lawns Environmentally
        • Acer palmatum 'Bihou'
      • SOIL compost >
        • SOIL in the Piedmont
        • SOIL pH guide
        • SOIL Mecklenburg basics
        • Topsoil the dirt about
        • Prep SOIL for transplants
        • Build SOIL fertility
        • Garden Recycling: Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes . . .
        • MICROCLIMATES
        • Heat Wave Garden Tips
        • Why Should We Care about Biodiversity
        • Why Biodiversity Is Slipping Away
        • Plant Hardiness Zones From The USDA (2012 update)
        • Biological Islands for Cleaner Water Purification through Floating Treatment Wetlands
      • BUGS & Insects >
        • YELLOW JACKETS look out!
        • SLUGS a beer fest
        • HORNWORM control
      • WILDLIFE, Varmints >
        • DEER stinky control that works
        • RABBITS defend your garden
        • SQUIRRELS what really works
        • VOLES what will & won't work
        • MOLES what works
        • PESKY 'POSSUMS
        • PESKY RACCOONS
        • SNAKES gracious Alive!
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