Hidalgo County Master Gardener Association

Our Fall container vegetable garden workshop was a great success yesterday! Thank you to our Master Gardeners Letty and Margo for providing valuable educational information to our community. And thank you to those who attended, we look forward to hearing about the success of your gardens.

👏 We would love to give a shout out to our fellow Master Gardeners Jeannie, Sarah, Sylvia, Rick, Amelia, Janet and Andrea who were all up bright and early at the garden tackling those pesky weeds. Look at how they deweeded the path! 🎉👏 Our Garden is incomplete without the heart and soul of our members. Thank you for volunteering your time.

Join us in September for more learning!!! Hidalgo County Master Gardeners and Tree Specialists, Amanda Humphreys and Ruben Salas will share their tree knowledge on Wednesday, September 21, at 6 PM. Come to the Extension Office or view the presentation during Facebook Live!!!

Thank you to Dorothy Earley for joining us and sharing her presentation on Herb Garden Design for the RGV. 🎉 We appreciate the knowledge you shared and for those that missed it, the presentation was recorded thru Facebook live and available to be rewatched.

Come learn with us during our Continuing Education Series!

Dorothy Earley, Herb Specialist, Gardener, and commercial hay grower, will present Herb Garden Design for the RGV along with growing challenging herbs in the RGV!!!

Join in person or via Facebook Live!!! We hope to see you!!! Click the link below for handouts for the presentation:

https://tinyurl.com/4xfsbbur

Our Desert Rose Grafting class was a success! Each participant went home with their own desert rose. Thank you to Master Gardener Ruben Salas and our interns for teaching today's workshop.

Special thanks to Barbara Storz for joining us at our June Master Gardener general meeting. Her presentation on Flowers for a Summer Cutting Garden in South Texas was truly a delight. 👏

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Come learn with us!!!

Farmers Market at Firemen's Park Extension Agent Emeritus, Barbara A. Storz, will share with us to how cut flowers that will survive our summers, bring joy, and bring pollinators!

We look forward to seeing YOU!!!

May is Mental Health Awareness month. As Master Gardeners, we are well aware of the health benefits of gardening, but did you know that is backed by science?

Research from Texas A&M AgriLife expert Dr. Charles Hall shows that gardening:

🌿Reduces anxiety and stress
🌿Helps with attention deficit recovery
🌿Helps decrease depression
🌿Leads to enhanced memory retention
🌿Improves happiness and life satisfaction
🌿Mitigates symptoms of PTSD
🌿Increases creativity, productivity and attention
🌿Reduces effects of dementia
🌿Enhances self-esteem
🌿Increases feelings of vitality and energy

Learn more about the physical and mental health benefits of gardening at: https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2022/04/25/the-positive-effects-of-gardening-on-mental-health/

Join Master Gardeners in celebrating Mental Health Month! We will explore increasing well-being through accessible gardening via our Continuing Education Series! The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Register at: TINYURL.COM/Y54X3NZE

You CAN grow asparagus in the RGV!!!! Thank you to Cruz Salinas from the Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Advancement (SARA) at UTRGV - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Salinas Family Farm for sharing with Master Gardeners!!! Click the following link for Cruz's video and grow that asparagus!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_APgEzimJrk

Hidalgo County Master Gardener Association updated their info in the about section.

Hidalgo County Master Gardener Association updated their info in the about section.

Want more Asparagus growing info??? Check out last month's Continuing Education speaker, Cruz Salinas' video on YouTube!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_APgEzimJrk

Join Master Gardeners in celebrating Mental Health Month! We will explore increasing well-being through accessible gardening via our Continuing Education Series! The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Register at: TINYURL.COM/Y54X3NZE

Thank you to Chuck Malloy from the Palm Society of South Texas for the educational presentation on the different varieties of palm trees. We also had a lovely time touring the zoo with our neighbors the Cameron County Master Gardeners and learned about the different species of palms trees inside the zoo. 🌴

We will be having our raffle this afternoon! Good luck! 🍀 Te deseo mucha suerte 🍀

TODAY is the big day!! 🌵🌿 Come and join us! We will be here till noon.

Hello everyone! Reminder that we will be having our Spring plant sale this Saturday! So make sure to mark your calendars! Also we will be raffling this beautiful garden wagon filled with items you'll need to start up your summer garden. Tickets are $1.00 each!!!
If interested you'll be able to purchase tickets onsite during our plant sale this Saturday, April 23 starting at 9am. The sale will be held at our South Texas Master Gardener Educational Garden located in North San Juan park, 509 E. Earling Road in San Juan. The raffle will be held at noon on the same day following the Big Spring Plant Sale. Good luck to all whom have entered so far! 🍀

It's our last day here at the McAllen Convention Center! We will be here till 5pm 🪴

Come and join us at the Home & Garden Show! Starts today at 2pm till 6pm! We will also be here Saturday & Sunday starting at 9am. We have a variety of beautiful plants including succulents. We look forward in seeing y'all here ❤️ Free admission!

Getting ready for the Home and Garden Show this weekend at the McAllen Convention Center. Free entry all weekend - hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars! April 23rd is our plant sale, we apologize for the confusion but it will no longer be on April the 2nd. Hope to see y'all here on April 23rd. Have a great weekend!

Take a look at this gorgeous addition to our garden pavilion! Special thanks to our Master Gardener Sylvia for acquiring this beautiful Calla Lily stain glass. Also many thanks to Rick and John for the amazing insulation.
Don't forget to join us on April 23rd for our Spring plant sale! Come and see this beautiful stain glass masterpiece in-person because photos truly don't do it justice. Hope to see y'all there! 🪴

Join us Saturday, April 2nd from 9 to 11 am for a propagation workshop on Air Layering. Call the Hidalgo County Extension Office to sign up: (956) 383-1026 Register here: https://hidalgo.agrilife.org/horticulture/upcoming-horticulture-events/airprop/

We are excited to invite the public to join us for the continuing education portion of our monthly Association Meeting. On Wednesday, March 16th at 6:00 pm Master Gardener, Linda Calderon will be presenting via Zoom on "Art in the Garden". If you are interesting in joining this online presentation call the Extension office at (956) 383-1026 and leave your email.

FREE EVENT

Register: https://cameron.agrilife.org/upcoming-events/

March 10th
8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Business Planning
Agribusiness Marketing
Farm Food Safety
FSA Farm Loan Resources

Weslaco Agrilife District Center
2401 E. Bus Highway 83
(Corner of Bus. 83 & FM 1015)

Save the Date! Lots of great workshops heading your way!
Registration details coming soon. Register for workshops here: https://hidalgo.agrilife.org/horticulture/upcoming-horticulture-events/

In honor of National Heart Health Month & Read Aloud Week, Dr. Ida read her book, ‘The Cat Who Ate Spinach.’ It is based on a true story of a tabby cat who loves spinach.
After her book reading, there were spinach chocolate chip cookies available to try and they were a big hit with the kids. They even came back for seconds!

We would like to give a warm welcome to 2022 Texas Master Gardener interns David Stohl, Ricardo Cantu, Hilda Cantu and Rocky Guzman. With the help of our resident cat Gigi, they toured the educational garden and learned about the variety of plants that we have here.

We are expecting some cold weather the next couple of days, make sure to protect your plants.

There is still time to sign up for our Gardening 101 classes, but don't wait...seating is limited. Register online: https://bit.ly/3GpXR9w

Tree Care Training Course
January 25-28, 2022

This course is open to the general public and to professional arborists. All aspects of tree care are presented as well as covering the entirety of the of International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Arborist Study Guide book. The course is presented by a team of ISA Certified Arborists from the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio. This course prepares arborists for the ISA Certified Arborist examination.

Register: https://hidalgo.agrilife.org/arboristtraining/
Location: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service office, 410 N. 13th Avenue in Edinburg, Texas.

It's a beautiful day and our Master Garderners are in full swing ready for the plant sale!🌵Come join us! We have rain barrels and a wide variety of plants for sale.

Come join us for the Fall Plant Sale 🪴! We will be here today from 9am to 12pm at 509 E. Earling Road, San Juan.

🍂Today was a busy and productive day as we are preparing for our fall plant sale. We hope you will join us on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 9am to 12pm!🍂

September 11, 2021 - Workshop on Propagating Succulents. Stay tuned!

Hidalgo County Master Gardener Workshop

Upcoming workshop on Rainwater Harvesting. Class is filling up - LIMITED SEATS! We have extra barrels, so even if the class is full you can still purchase a barrel. Call the Hidalgo County Extension office for more information: (956) 383-1026

Hidalgo County Master Gardener Workshop Rainwater Harvesting-Saturday, August 21, 2021