2022 Garden Tour Just Around the Corner, July 9
*** Online tickets will not be sold after 7/6 to allow us to prepare for the Garden Tour, BUT you may still purchase additional tickets…
BCGA Spring Plant Sale Set for May, 6-7
Spring waits for no one! The annual BCGA Spring plant sale is on for Friday and Saturday May 6th and 7th – Mother’s Day weekend.…
2022 BCGA Membership Class starts Jan. 27
BCGA’s 2022 Membership Class will begin on Thursday, January 27th, and ZOOM ATTENDANCE is still open for enrollment. The cost for the class series will…
Introducing the 2021 Garden Tour Lineup
We’re getting excited about our upcoming 2021 Garden Tour, just around the corner on July 3rd (10 am – 4 pm)! Each garden featured is…
Fall Chores
by Valle Novak With the rains of fall beginning and the true cold of oncoming winter a given, it’s time to complete your fall chores…
Bats
by Valle Novak My bed is situated so that I can lie and see what’s going on outside the window: The wind in the trees,…
Yellow Jackets – Vespula spp.
by Marcie Crockett Yellow jackets are social insects that live in colonies containing thousands of individuals. These wasps will attack aggressively when their nest is…
Spider Mites
by Marcie Crockett Spider mites are a major pest on a wide variety of garden and landscape plants. They are minute arthropods whose feeding can…
Aphids
by Marcie Crockett Aphids are soft-bodied insects that use their piercing sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap. They usually occur in colonies on the undersides…
Compost
by Bob Wilson * The benefits, for both the individual and the community, of composting common organic waste materials are manyfold. Most people produce quantities…
Soil Amendments
by Bob Wilson * Recently, it has been brought to my attention that some people have had problems using log-yard wastes as soil amendment. I also talked…
Hillside Planting
by Valle Novak A few months ago, a friend new to the ranks of Master Gardeners, mentioned that her property lay on a partial hillside and that…