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Master Gardener Program
The WVU Master Gardener Program
is administered by the Extension Services of WVU. The
program provides an opportunity for gardeners to improve their
horticultural skills while developing communication, management and
leadership skills. Information about the program can be
obtained by contacting your local Extension Service
Office or clicking on the link below.
Local Master Gardeners' have
played an integral role in the creation, organization and operation
of the New Martinsville Farmers' Market.
They also run a Master Gardeners'
information booth during regular Market hours providing information
to visitors about the Market, giving gardening advice, answering
gardening questions and just "talking garden".
Master Gardeners Bryan Ensinger and
Bob Lowe talk "garden" with John Yevuta. |  WVU Extension Agent Edgar Hooper
presents MG certificates to Mary Ann Yevuta, Bryan Ensinger and
BobLowe |  MG Bob Lowe answers a gardening
question from local gardener John Pierce at the
Farmers' Market. |
Broccoli
Seedlings | 
Tomato
Seedlings | 
Young
Spinach Plants |
Onion Sets | |  Row Covers to warm the
soil |
Garden Pictures
May
Leaf
Lettuce ready to pick | 
Beets
after thinning | 
Young
Onions |
Tomato
transplants | 
Broccoli
transplants | 
Cold Frame
with flowers, sweet potatoes and peppers awaiting the last
frost |
Garden Pictures
June
June
Strawberries | |  Blackberries are heavy with
fruit |
 Sweet Potatoes |  Broccoli beginning to set
heads | Bell Peppers |
Fantastic Hybrid Tomato setting | Beets
near harvest | 
Zucchini
beginning to blossom |
Carrots | 
Jade bush
beans | 
Garlic
beginning to die down |
Garden Pictures
July
Thronless Blackberries
 | Detroit Beets | Red, White and Yellow Onions
 |
Danvers Carrots | Jade Bush Beans | Costa Rican Red Hybrid
Pepper |
Fantastic Hybrid
Tomato | Georgia Jet Sweet
Potato | Anton Zucchini |
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Garden Pictures
August
Fall Zuchinni plants | |
 Fall Broccoli plants |
Fall Bush Beans | |
 Harvested Onions drying |
|
 Sweet Potato blossom | |
September Garden Pictures
| The
Fall Garden | |
Fall Broccoli beginning to head |  Jade beans near
harvest |  Costa Rican Grilling
Peppers |
 Little Marvel Peas |  Anton Zucchini blossoming |  Zucchini forming |
 Amish Salad tomatoes still
producing |  Sweet Potatoes everywhere |  One of the last hybrid tomatoes
(Fantastic) |
Garden Activities for
October
While
the average Fall frost date has come and gone there is no frost in
the forecast through at least the 24th or 25th of the month.
This has allowed the gardens to continue showing all phases of the
life cycle of plants. Some herbs and flowers are going to
seed, some vegetables have died off, and other plants are almost
ready for harvest. This is also the time of the year to store
winter vegetables.
Specific activities for
October
- Harvest late pumpkins before frost
- Plant lettuce in the cold frame
- Harvest Winter squash
- Plant Spring bulbs
- Seed spinach for overwintering
- Plant or transplant decidious trees and shrubs after leaves
have fallen
- Mow lawns at a low heighth
- Prune roses
- (*Information from the 2010 WVU Garden
Calendar)
October 19th Garden Pictures
Fall Broccoli | Broccoli near
harvest | 
Red Sweet peppers still
producing |
Grilling Peppers | Zucchini Patch |  Black Beauty Zucchini near harvest |
 Pea Patch-Little Marvel |  Pea Pods forming |  Amish Salad Tomatoes |
Sweet Potatoes | Basil going to seed | Dill going to seed |
Tip of the Month
Now is a great time to get your
soil tested and then make needed changes to the soil this fall so
the garden will be ready to go in the spring. Get your test
kit ant the WVU Extension Office..
Quote of the Month
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious
as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all
the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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