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June 18, 2009

Weekend gardening events

Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Valley View Farms, Whimsical Summer Container Gardens: Whether you’re a parent, grandparent or just a child at heart, everyone can have a little whimsy in their gardens. Out container expert, Nancy Sostrin will talk about adding little touches of the unexpected and fun to our gardens by cleverly using and sighting objects such as garden sculptures, gazing globes, and even magical gnomes in the yard.

Saturday, 11 a.m. Valley View Farms, Bugs, Slugs and Other Garden Thugs: We’re willing to share, but not with these creatures. Find out who the good bugs and who the bad bugs are in the garden and how to encourage the former and discourage the latter. This visual presentation will be presented by our staff and any “friends” participants want to bring along for identification. We will show earth-friendly techniques to keep our gardens healthy and alive. For children and adults.

Photo courtesy of Valley View Farms

Posted by Susan Reimer at 2:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)
Categories: Gardening classes

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My question is about grapes. After a few weeks of growth,after grapes form and are about one and a half inches long, a white"hair" grows out of each grape, and eventually the grape bunch disappears. Can you tell me what causes this, thank you............John

Posted by: John | June 19, 2009 12:31 AM

I am hoping somebody out there can help John. The only grapes I work with have already been turned into white wine.

Posted by: Susan Reimer | June 19, 2009 10:14 AM

I'm going out of town this evening, so I'll miss Whimsical Summer Container Gardens, which sounds like a lot of fun. However - and I hate to be a thorn in the nice Valley View folks' side with this - I am quite sure that if I stop in one day next week and ask questions, an employee will give me the highlights. They are very helpful at Valley View.

LOL, Eve. The secret is out! VVF people are there for customers no matter what day of the week.

Posted by: Eve | June 19, 2009 10:19 AM

Hi Susan,
Hope to see you this weekend at the Lee Center when the AHS garden school gets some Teaming With Microbes!

Cheers,

Jeff

Posted by: jeff Lowenfels | June 25, 2009 10:14 AM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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