Master Gardener Classes - Muskogee County
Master Gardener Certification Classes Cost $100
Start Sept 25 at 1, Muskogee County Extension Office, Muskogee Fairgrounds
Information: Mandy Blocker, Extension Educator ag/4-H, 918-686-7200, mandy.blocker@okstate.edu
Facebook: Muskogee County Master Gardeners
If you lot similar to run alongside garden plants in addition to assist people, becoming a original gardener mightiness hold upwards just
the affair for you. Master gardeners are trained volunteers who assist earth alongside their gardening
questions, run on community gardening projects, assist alongside hosting world classes in addition to volunteer in
the Muskogee County Extension Office.
From the commencement course of instruction inwards September to the final course of instruction inwards December, participants have in-depth training
inwards gardening from Oklahoma State University Extension specialists.
All classes volition regard from 1 to five on Thursdays. The schedule of classes includes
September - 25 Basic Botany taught past times Mandy Blocker
Oct 2 – Woody Ornamentals taught past times doc Mike Schnelle
Oct nine – Plant Diseases taught past times Jen Olson
Oct xvi – Soil Fertility taught past times Regents Professor doc Hailin Zhang
Oct 23 – Pesticide Safety taught past times Charles Luper
Oct thirty – Herbaceous Ornamental Plants taught past times David Hillock
Nov xiii – Vegetable Gardening taught past times Ray Ridlen
Nov twenty – Fruit in addition to Nut Production taught past times Becky Carroll
Dec iv – Entomology (Insects) taught past times doc Eric Rebek
Dec eleven – Turfgrass – lawns, meadows in addition to fields
So far, Mandy Blocker has facilitated 2 original gardener serial inwards Muskogee alongside 19
graduates out of 33 participants. The upcoming serial could add together some other 25 to the collective
wisdom available to serve every bit a resources for beautifying our community in addition to teaching citizens to
grow their ain nutrient patch getting valuable household unit of measurement time.
Participants acquire the basics: Vegetables, fruits, nuts, perennial in addition to annual flowers, trees and
shrubs. In add-on they acquire which are the practiced bugs in addition to which are the bad bugs, how to
command institute diseases alongside minimal chemicals, edifice soil in addition to efficient irrigation methods.
When the preparation classes end, the fun begins for graduates. The volunteer hours you lot position in
afterward course of instruction completion are required to earn the championship of original gardener. The hours tin be
anything from sitting at the original gardener tabular array at the Farmer’s Market, to maintaining beds
at Honor Heights Park, helping at the Extension Office, volunteering at i of the community
gardens, aid continuing teaching classes in addition to helping at workshops.
The commencement twelvemonth required volunteer workload is l hours. In subsequent years, inwards club to keep
the certificate upwards to date, original gardeners position inwards twenty hours of volunteer run in addition to participate
inwards 20-hours of continuing teaching through meetings in addition to conferences.
Mandy Blocker said, “We accept virtually 30-recent in addition to experienced original gardeners in
Muskogee immediately who contribute to a broad diversity of projects closed to town.”
One of the many benefits of becoming a certified original gardener is beingness able to participate
inwards original gardener conferences inwards OK in addition to other states. For example, the TX original gardener
conference requires a re-create of your certificate for registration.
One of the proposed upcoming projects for original gardeners is introducing children to gardening
through extension, school, in addition to Parks Department Programs.
“I am excited for the expansion into our schoolhouse arrangement of a fun, multiple-intelligence (http://hort.li/
1wpC ) activeness that tin hold upwards blended alongside physical exercise, science, math in addition to other topics,” said
Blocker.
Upcoming events for original gardeners include continuing to maintain the bloom beds at Papilion at
Honor Heights Park, community gardens, Muskogee Farmer’s Market, in addition to monthly meetings in addition to seed-
institute swaps alongside other original gardeners.
Next twelvemonth on March 28 during Daffodil Day at the Thomas Foreman Home the original gardeners are
selling the plants they grew over the wintertime inwards club to heighten coin for a autobus tour to a local garden
such every bit the Tulsa Garden Center.
Blocker said that she is laid to verbalise to anyone who thinks they mightiness hold upwards interested inwards taking the classes that laid about inwards Sept. Please telephone telephone Blocker at 918-686-7200 or ship an electronic mail to mandy.blocker@okstate.edu.
Start Sept 25 at 1, Muskogee County Extension Office, Muskogee Fairgrounds
Information: Mandy Blocker, Extension Educator ag/4-H, 918-686-7200, mandy.blocker@okstate.edu
Facebook: Muskogee County Master Gardeners
If you lot similar to run alongside garden plants in addition to assist people, becoming a original gardener mightiness hold upwards just
the affair for you. Master gardeners are trained volunteers who assist earth alongside their gardening
questions, run on community gardening projects, assist alongside hosting world classes in addition to volunteer in
the Muskogee County Extension Office.
From the commencement course of instruction inwards September to the final course of instruction inwards December, participants have in-depth training
inwards gardening from Oklahoma State University Extension specialists.
All classes volition regard from 1 to five on Thursdays. The schedule of classes includes
September - 25 Basic Botany taught past times Mandy Blocker
Oct 2 – Woody Ornamentals taught past times doc Mike Schnelle
Oct nine – Plant Diseases taught past times Jen Olson
Oct xvi – Soil Fertility taught past times Regents Professor doc Hailin Zhang
Oct 23 – Pesticide Safety taught past times Charles Luper
Oct thirty – Herbaceous Ornamental Plants taught past times David Hillock
Nov xiii – Vegetable Gardening taught past times Ray Ridlen
Nov twenty – Fruit in addition to Nut Production taught past times Becky Carroll
Dec iv – Entomology (Insects) taught past times doc Eric Rebek
Dec eleven – Turfgrass – lawns, meadows in addition to fields
So far, Mandy Blocker has facilitated 2 original gardener serial inwards Muskogee alongside 19
graduates out of 33 participants. The upcoming serial could add together some other 25 to the collective
wisdom available to serve every bit a resources for beautifying our community in addition to teaching citizens to
grow their ain nutrient patch getting valuable household unit of measurement time.
Participants acquire the basics: Vegetables, fruits, nuts, perennial in addition to annual flowers, trees and
shrubs. In add-on they acquire which are the practiced bugs in addition to which are the bad bugs, how to
command institute diseases alongside minimal chemicals, edifice soil in addition to efficient irrigation methods.
When the preparation classes end, the fun begins for graduates. The volunteer hours you lot position in
afterward course of instruction completion are required to earn the championship of original gardener. The hours tin be
anything from sitting at the original gardener tabular array at the Farmer’s Market, to maintaining beds
at Honor Heights Park, helping at the Extension Office, volunteering at i of the community
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The commencement twelvemonth required volunteer workload is l hours. In subsequent years, inwards club to keep
the certificate upwards to date, original gardeners position inwards twenty hours of volunteer run in addition to participate
inwards 20-hours of continuing teaching through meetings in addition to conferences.
Mandy Blocker said, “We accept virtually 30-recent in addition to experienced original gardeners in
Muskogee immediately who contribute to a broad diversity of projects closed to town.”
One of the many benefits of becoming a certified original gardener is beingness able to participate
inwards original gardener conferences inwards OK in addition to other states. For example, the TX original gardener
conference requires a re-create of your certificate for registration.
One of the proposed upcoming projects for original gardeners is introducing children to gardening
through extension, school, in addition to Parks Department Programs.
“I am excited for the expansion into our schoolhouse arrangement of a fun, multiple-intelligence (http://hort.li/
1wpC ) activeness that tin hold upwards blended alongside physical exercise, science, math in addition to other topics,” said
Blocker.
Upcoming events for original gardeners include continuing to maintain the bloom beds at Papilion at
Honor Heights Park, community gardens, Muskogee Farmer’s Market, in addition to monthly meetings in addition to seed-
institute swaps alongside other original gardeners.
Next twelvemonth on March 28 during Daffodil Day at the Thomas Foreman Home the original gardeners are
selling the plants they grew over the wintertime inwards club to heighten coin for a autobus tour to a local garden
such every bit the Tulsa Garden Center.
Blocker said that she is laid to verbalise to anyone who thinks they mightiness hold upwards interested inwards taking the classes that laid about inwards Sept. Please telephone telephone Blocker at 918-686-7200 or ship an electronic mail to mandy.blocker@okstate.edu.