Master Gardener Training Course
Carol Crawford
The Master Gardener Training Course will once again be offered at SaddleBrooke on Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to noon beginning November 7, 2019 through February 13, 2020. This is an intensive 13 week lecture series given by local Master Gardeners, guest lecturers from the University of Arizona and other professionals in various fields. Some of the many topics to be covered include botany, soils, desert adapted plants, citrus, irrigation, plant pathology, pest management and cacti/succulents. The course fee is $150.00 for individuals and $225.00 for couples, which includes all materials and the Master Gardener Manual from the University of Arizona cooperative extension.
The mission of Master Gardeners is to provide research-based education to the public with regard to any and all gardening issues. After completing the requirements for certification, Master Gardeners volunteer in their communities by providing lectures for local residents, helping their friends and neighbors with plant and landscape information and engaging in other educational horticultural projects. Some Master Gardeners volunteer at the Mountain Vista Elementary School in the after school garden program.
If you are interested in expanding your knowledge of desert gardening, helping your community to have healthier and better acclimated plants and trees, please consider joining this program and becoming a certified Master Gardener.
For more information or to enroll in this course, please contact Carol Crawford at [email protected] or 856-577-5431. Please visit our website at: http://saddlebrookemastergardeners.org/ for all up-to-date information and events for our SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch communities.
Other contacts:
Laurie Foster:
Karen Turcott:
May Gardening lecture
Margaret Larmour
The Gardeners Exchange in conjunction with the SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners invites you to attend “Hot Vegetable Gardening” presented by MarciBeth Phillips, retired general manager for a local biocontrol company and Pima County Master Gardener, on Thursday, May 16, at 1:00 p.m. in the West Ballroom of MountainView in SaddleBrooke.
As a native Arizonan who loves to garden, MarciBeth will teach you to enjoy success this summer in your “hot weather vegetable garden” by giving the most up to date information to help guide you with what to grow, when to start it, where to locate your garden, which varieties to select and how to protect and water your edibles.
No registration needed. Open seating. For more information, please contact Margaret Larmour at [email protected] or 520-307-2100.