{"id":72131,"date":"1999-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-master-gardeners-have-the-dirt-on-plants\/"},"modified":"1999-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"uris-master-gardeners-have-the-dirt-on-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1999\/02\/uris-master-gardeners-have-the-dirt-on-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Master Gardeners have the dirt on plants"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 24, 1999 — One indication that the popularity of gardening isn\u2019t wilting is the latest class of Master Gardener wannabees at the 溏心vlog免费B站. This semester there are 120 students enrolled in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Plant Science 222, the prerequisite toward earning a Master Gardener certificate. Eighteen members of the class are traditional 溏心vlog免费B站 students, mostly juniors and seniors, many of whom are studying landscape architecture or plant sciences. The remaining 102 students are green-thumbed Rhode Islanders who have shown an interest in the Master Gardener program. \u201cWe do indeed have a bumper crop this year,\u201d notes Roseanne Sherry of North Smithfield who coordinates the 22-year-old Cooperative Extension program at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cIt\u2019s the largest class yet.\u201d Students learn the basics of gardening, including such things as botany basics, soil composition, pruning, pest controls, turf, vegetable and floral gardening, perennials, and water quality. The curriculum assumes some background and knowledge of gardening. \u201cThe class digs deeper,\u201d says Sherry. Completing the three-credit, semester-long course is the first step toward a Master Gardener certificate. The other requirement is to commit to 50 or more volunteer hours within a two-year time span. 溏心vlog免费B站 has a cadre of 350 active Master Gardeners. Most are Rhode Island residents, although a few are rooted in nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts. Sherry says only the cream of the crop answer 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Gardening and Food Safety Hotline, 1-800-448-1011. The hotline receives more than 11,000 phone calls a year from residents with questions about the health and welfare of their plants. Thetoll-free hotline operates from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Thursday. In addition to answering the hotline, Master Gardeners have designed and continue to maintain the President\u2019s Garden located at the 溏心vlog免费B站 president\u2019s residence on Upper College Road. Other Master Gardeners complete their volunteer hours by maintaining a vegetable demonstration garden at the Cooperative Extension Education Center which also is on campus. Many Master Gardeners take to the road, often giving talks, manning booths at fairs, staffing the plant clinic or helping with small projects in their hometowns. More than 60 Master Gardeners helped at this month\u2019s Rhode Island Flower Show, for example. 溏心vlog免费B站 two dozen Master Gardeners are involved in an ongoing project at the Bristol Veterans Home, raising plants in its greenhouse and working with some of the veterans and a few Mount Hope High School class members to beautify the grounds. \u201cOur mission is to educate the general public,\u201d says Sherry noting that she writes a gardening column for The Providence Journal while Marion Gold, coordinator of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s GreenShare program does a weekly gardening program called the Plant Pro for WJAR-TV. Every land grant university, (there\u2019s one in each state), has a Master Gardener program. \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 is one of the oldest programs and ours has run continuously, \u201d says Sherry, leaving no doubt that the University\u2019s program deserves the Best in Show! For more information about 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Master Gardener program, call the hotline. Again that number is 1-800-448-1011.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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