I have sent invites to all of you to become "authors" of the blog. Let me know if you want me to remove your email from the list. I am the only one that can currently "see" the list.
The idea is that with more of us posting we can build the blog into an informative educational tool - and isn't that what MG's are supposed to do?
I hope you all give it a try. Many heads are better than one.

Lawn Class

Who woulda thunk it? Such an enormous amount of info about caring for lawns!
It was a lot to take in in one day, hope I can recall some of it for the final exam.

For me the lawn has been something to try to spread the flower beds into; so I didn't know there could be that much to learn. But many of the pests are present in the flowers beds, too. Especially the ground ivy and now I know that the only things that will kill it are dicamba or MCPP.

In Sunday's Parade there was an ad that listed an offer from Scott for one of the four bags of Turf Builder free after mail-in rebate. http://scotts.com to get the details. The bags must be purchased between 3/1/07 and 3/31/07... For those of you that may need four bags at once.

Look for an invite to team blog, coming soon.

These are some of the websites through our MG program:

in general:
http://trumbull.osu.edu/hort/hort.htm

for the newsletter:
http://trumbull.osu.edu/hort/hortnews.htm

this link is from state coordinator Pam and lists events around the state http://mastergardener.osu.edu/ (Click on calendar on the left side)

I'll be adding more and creating a sidebar to carry them asap.

Hurray, It's Snowing!

Just kidding. It had almost all melted and now it's back again, can't see one green blade, leaf, or leprechaun; it is March, ya know...

My garden chores today consist of dreaming, oops, I mean planning.

• I'm trying to recall all the plants that need divided and decide where to put the divisions.
• What plants were too crowded last year, too close to their neighbors and need relocation? And where?
• The roses outside the fence need transplanted inside the fence so feeding is easier. And where?
• Trees and shrubs need pruned.
• Need to find someone to repair the stone wall.
• Thought I would try to pot up Dahlias to get a jump start on their growth; first find out when.

That's enough dreaming/planning for now. What are the chores you are actually looking forward to? Because it will mean there is no more *#! SNOW.

Assignment

Just wondering if anyone out there know if this week's assignment is plant pathology or physiology?
Some of my bulbs are just beginning to pop through the tundra. Anyone have outdoor flowers yet? Sigh... Soon the snow will be gone. At least I've heard it's so.
Does anyone have any Hellebores? I've never seen the actual plants and was wondering how they perform and how big they grow in our area. Do they take time to become established before blooming?
There is a way to do team postings on Blogger; would any of you be interested? This way you could post your own questions instead of only responding to mine. You would have to join Blogger but it is free. I will check the procedure and let you know. If any of you are experienced with blogging help me out here, okay?

Online classmate

Welcome to Cara, our online classmate!
It would be nice if some of you would introduce yourselves and your interests as we did in class.
I'm Susan and I have garden envy for all of our classmates with - would you believe it -acreage! My lot is 55 x 180 and the garden patch must only be a third of that, what with house, garage, driveway and veggie garden. I suppose that counts as garden but that's the hubbie's not mine; I just pick 'em...
Cara, what is your garden passion or madness, as the case may be?

Gardening with houseplant scale

Here's the info on that:

• plants outside last summer
• sprayed w/Safer soap upon bringing them in
• forgot 'em except watering thru holidays
• Jan. comes and EEK - scales!
• Hudson said at interview to spray again w/Safer
• been spraying weekly since
• leaf-drop stopped after 2nd spraying
• still spraying and hoping
• one 4 ft. Ficus and one 6 ft. Schefflera
• next year I will use Di Syston as recommended by lecturer Jackie
• let you know how they turn out