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Offline longwinters

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Any "Master Gardeners"?
« on: June 29, 2013, 03:50:17 PM »
I've been wondering about taking a Master Gardener course.  Since there are none in my area I was thinking about trying to find one on line.  Any ideas?


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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 05:42:55 PM »
i've not heard of such a thing, but
then again i'm at the not-quite-geezer stage.


what is it they could teach that you don't
already know or couldn't figure on your own?
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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 05:55:10 PM »
My wife is a Master Gardener. She went through a year long course at the local Botanical Gardens.
I don't know much about it, other than she does a lot of continuing education and is called on to volunteer for various things (which she enjoys).


Here is their website; it won't do much for you, except maybe give you a hint of where to look in your area.
http://www.jeffcomg.org/

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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 05:58:05 PM »
so that's like a vocational landscape
gardening type course i would guess?
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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 06:05:12 PM »
so that's like a vocational landscape
gardening type course i would guess?


More avocational than vocational.
I think the idea is they train some folks in the community to be master gardeners, word gets around that you are a master gardener, and friends come to you for advice.
The difference between people who do stuff and people who don't do stuff is that the people who do stuff do stuff.

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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 07:06:52 PM »
ok - gotcha  ;)
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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2013, 01:18:17 AM »
Never knew there was such a thing. ???   I always considered my FIL a master gardener and he only had a 6th grade education, but he could raise the finest vegetables on the poorest, rockiest ground.  He would do things like taste the dirt and decide what to add to it from that.  Never used store bought chemicals.  He only used local sources of natural enrichment, but would vary from one time to the next which source to use.  Not sure such things can be taught, only learned. ;)

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Re: Any "Master Gardeners"?
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2022, 07:53:16 AM »
What happened to Longwinters, I thought he was over at the other GB also.