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Crabtree Farms Fall Festival and Plant Sale

Title: Crabtree Farms Fall Festival and Plant Sale
Location: 1000 East 30th Street Chattanooga, TN 37409
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Description: Chattanooga’s urban education and research farm is holding its annual Fall Festival and Plant Sale on September 18.  If you haven’t started your fall vegetables, this is a great opportunity to purchase plants and support the farm’s [...]

Month-by-Month Gardening Guide: September

Groundcovers and Lawns:

After a tough summer, what do you need to do to revive that sun-scorched turf? First, take a look at your fertilization schedule.  Remember that cool-season lawns need fertilizer when temperatures are cooler (i.e. spring and fall).  In fact, if you can only fertilize once a year – do it in the fall. [...]

Come Celebrate the UT Extension's 100th Birthday

The University of Tennessee Extension turns 100 years old this year, and to celebrate that milestone, the Hamilton County Extension office is hosting an Open House Centennial Celebration on Friday, October 8  from 1 pm to 4 pm at the J. Merle Crawley Agricultural Center, 6183 Adamson Circle (just off Bonny Oaks Drive).

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Cumberland County Fall Gardeners' Festival

The Cumberland Master Gardeners invite you to come to the Fall Gardeners’ Festival on Tuesday, August 31 at the Plateau Discovery Gardens within the UT Plateau Research and Education Center, 320 Experiment Station Road, Crossville starting at 10 am and concluding at 4 pm CDT.  The Festival is open to the public and is free.

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Fall Planting Workshops

Title: Chattanooga Area Food Bank Fall Planting Workshops
Location: Evelyn Davenport Navarre Demonstration Garden – Chattanooga Area Food Bank
Description: Master Gardeners will teach starting fall vegetable seeds starting with a workshop on starting fall seeds (choice of either Wednesday, September 8 at 7 pm or Saturday, September 11 at 10 am).   Groups and individuals [...]

Seeds of Success Training

Are you interested in helping to conserve, rehabilitate and restore our native lands?  The August 26 “Seeds of Success” training session will be a great opportunity for your to learn about how you can participate in area seed collection programs being  held this fall. The training will be held in the Fishbowl Meeting Room in [...]

2010 Junior Master Gardener Specialist Training Conference

Title: 2010 Junior Master Gardener Specialist Training Conference
Location: Aldridge Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL
Description: The 2010 JMG Specialist Training Conference is a “train-the-trainer”co nference that will be hosted through Alabama Cooperative Extension at Aldridge Botanical Gardens. The training conference is being hosted by Luci Davis, Alabama JMG State Coordinator and will be conducted by the [...]

Thousand Cankers Disease Discovered in East Tennessee

Just one week after the first signs of Emerald Ash Borer beetle in Tennessee were found, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) confirmed a state forester’s discovery of Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) in the same area – Knox County in East Tennessee.  Thousand Cankers Disease is a fungus that affects walnut trees and is potentially [...]

Mid-South Native Plant Conference

Title: Mid-South Native Plant Conference
Location: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN
Description: After a 13-year hiatus, the Mid-South Native Plant Conference returns to Memphis October 8 through October 10, 2010. With the theme “Natives and Beyond: Sustainable Plants, Gardens and Communities” the conference brings a world-class roster of nationally acclaimed horticulturalists, botanists, and [...]

Start Your Fall Vegetables Today

Have your tomatoes and other summer crops let you down by failing to produce anything but caterpillars and dead or moldy leaves?  Do you get a sad feeling when you look at your vegetable garden in its parched and sun-scorched state?  It may be time to pull out your spring and summer garden and prepare [...]