Do your New Year’s resolutions include growing your own food, doing a better job of caring for your yard, or gardening more sustainably? Do weeds and insects have you perplexed? Need soil testing supplies or gardening advice? If so, Pender Cooperative Extension can help you!
Sign Up For Email News!
One way Pender Cooperative Extension can help you stay up to date on all that needs to be done in your lawn, garden, and landscape is through our two email news services, Pender Gardener and Food Gardener. Both bring timely, accurate information for local growing conditions directly to your email inbox, including pest alerts, planting times, and announcements of upcoming classes and events.
One way Pender Cooperative Extension can help you stay up to date on all that needs to be done in your lawn, garden, and landscape is through our two email news services, Pender Gardener and Food Gardener. Both bring timely, accurate information for local growing conditions directly to your email inbox, including pest alerts, planting times, and announcements of upcoming classes and events.
Pender Gardener News focuses on what you need to know to sustainably care for your lawn and landscape. News posts in 2012 will include exciting new plants and proven performers you could grow in your landscape, information about controlling lawn and ornamental insect and disease problems using less pesticides, and ways your yard can help the environment. To sign up for Pender Gardener News, send an email to mj2@lists.ncsu.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message put: subscribe pendergardener
Pender Extension’s newest news service, Food Gardener, was launched in August of 2011 to provide fresh and local information on growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in southeastern North Carolina. Food Gardener posts in 2012 will focus on varieties of edible plants you can grow here and when to plant, how to care for them, as well as insects and disease alerts and how to manage them using organic or sustainable methods. To sign up for Food Gardener News, send an email to mj2@lists.ncsu.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message put: subscribe foodgardener
Most of the news postings sent to Food Gardener and Pender Gardener subscribers are also posted on the Pender Gardener Blog, http://pendergardener.blogspot.com, providing another way you can to stay up to date on the latest gardening news for Pender County.
Ask a Master Gardener!Master Gardeners are trained volunteers willing to share their time and expertise to help you garden more successfully. In Pender County, over 60 active Master Gardener Volunteers work with the Pender Extension office to answer gardening questions during the growing season (April - October) at the Poplar Grove Farmer’s Market and Hampstead Library, as well as at local events including the Poplar Grove Herb and Garden Fair, Burgaw SpringFest and the Blueberry Festival.
To find out how you can ‘Ask a Master Gardener’, or if you would like to become a Master Gardener in Pender County, contact Charlotte Glen, Pender County Horticulture Agent, by calling 259-1235, or email cdglen@ncsu.edu. The next Master Gardener training course in Pender County will begin in August.
Ask Online!
Another way to get quick, reliable answers for your gardening questions is to use the ‘Ask an Expert’ widget on the Pender Extension website, http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu. Look in the upper left hand corner, just under the black bar, for the ‘Ask an Expert’ link. You can even upload pictures of weeds, plants, or pests for identification. The ‘Ask an Expert’ widget is not limited just to gardening questions; this is also the place you can get answers to questions related to farming, livestock, 4-H, nutrition, and food preservation.
Another way to get quick, reliable answers for your gardening questions is to use the ‘Ask an Expert’ widget on the Pender Extension website, http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu. Look in the upper left hand corner, just under the black bar, for the ‘Ask an Expert’ link. You can even upload pictures of weeds, plants, or pests for identification. The ‘Ask an Expert’ widget is not limited just to gardening questions; this is also the place you can get answers to questions related to farming, livestock, 4-H, nutrition, and food preservation.
You may also ‘Ask an Expert’ in person at the Pender Cooperative Extension office, by calling 259-1235 or visiting us at 801 South Walker Street in Burgaw. The Pender Extension office is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm, though it’s best to call first to make sure the person you need to speak to will be in the office.
Learn More!
To keep up to date with everything that is happening at Pender County Cooperative Extension like us on Facebook (search for Pender Cooperative Extension) or visit us online at http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu where you can find out about upcoming classes and local events.
Cooperative Extension is part of NC State University and NC A&T State University. Offices are located in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. To learn more about Cooperative Extension or locate offices in other counties visit http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/.
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