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PEOPLE AND PLANTS……..
A FREE EDUCATIONAL GARDENING EXPERIENCE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY

Tomatoes Did you plant two dozen tomato plants in your new vegetable garden this spring?  Are you now wondering what you will do with all those tomatoes at harvest time?  Then Dianne May’s Garden talk on food preservation at People & Plants should be on your schedule for Saturday, July 21. 

People & Plants is a free educational gardening experience for the entire family sponsored by the Union County Master Gardeners.  It will be held at the Union County Agricultural Center, 18000 U.S. Rt. 4 North from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be Garden Talks on Backyard Wildlife the Good, the Bad, the Ugly; Native Plants; Insects in our Backyard and Canning, Freezing and Drying Fruits and Vegetables.   A wide variety of garden related topics will be presented in displays and demonstrations.

Gardening games and activities in the Dirt Works for Kids area will keep children occupied while the adults are discovering new gardening techniques.

For more information visit
http://union.osu.edu/mgarden/events/PeoplePlants.html or call 937-644-8117. 

The Master Gardener Offers horticulture advice and tips, focusing on current issues by volunteers who are with The Ohio State University Extension, Union County Master Gardener Program. For answers to gardening questions, call 937.644.8117 or e-mail gmcvey@ag.osu.edu. Hourse are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday

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OSU Extension embraces human diversity and is committed to ensuring that all educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, disability, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or veteran status.

Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice President for Agricultural Administration and Director, OSU Extension TDD No. 800-589-8292 ( Ohio only) or 614-292-1868.

Revised July, 2007