RCMG newsletter June 22, 2019

Andi and Sandy Wardlaw were host to our first
Share-a-Garden on Saturday June 15, 2019. They
offered refreshments, fig tree seedlings, and a one
of a kind garden. The cloudy weather didn’t stop
the gardeners from enjoying the beauty of the
yard. Please enjoy these pictures from her garden.

Remember on the Share-A-Garden that Interns get
1 hour of volunteer work credit and Master
Gardens get 1 hour of CEU’s.

Meetings Board Meeting: July 2, 2019, 6:30 pm – SW library on
45th.

General Meeting: July 9th, 2019 Social hour 6:00 -
6:30. Meeting begins at 6:30pm.
AgriLife Extension Office 6500 W. Amarillo Blvd.

RCMG Website Our website has a new theme, designed by the state. There is
no change to how to log on to the Membership Tab (still
"knockout"). As a reminder, Members can view minutes of
both board and general meetings as well as the weekly
newsletter. Also under the Gardening With The Master Tab
(no password is required), they can view our monthly Meet A
Master Gardeners, in case they were unable to come to the
meeting.

Thanks, Rose Ann

https://txmg.org/randall/

Volunteer Hour https://texas.volunteersystem.org
Reporting System
We are finishing up our second quarter of reporting from
April, May, and June. Please make sure to log in your hours
so that we get acknowledged for all we do!

Volunteer / Project Texas AgriLife Extension Office / Xeriscape Garden/
Opportunities Flag Pole Garden

6500 W. Amarillo Blvd.

We will have a work day at Texas Agrilife Research
Garden at 6500 W. Amarillo Blvd.

Tuesday, June 25th at 8:30 am

We need to have the usual weeding and pruneing done.
If the garden leaders are not present, please feel free to
work in the garden on your own if you have worked there
before or you are going with someone else who has
worked there before. Be sure to bring water, hat, gloves,
garden tools, sunscreen and mosquito spray. Hope to see
you there! Joan, June, Diane, and Lora

Randall County Extension Office
200 N. Brown Road Canyon, TX

Managers: Joyce Parker, Sandy Posey
Wednesday mornings- 9:00 a.m.
Weather permitting

We will meet Monday morning (June 24th) at 8:00. We
plan to plant more Yucca and other plants and spread
mulch. Hope to see you there. Bring tools for planting and
spreading mulch. And if we have time left we can always
weed and deadhead.

--Thanks, Joyce & Sandy

Canyon Farmer’s Market

The Canyon Farmers Market season is upon us. We are a

welcome addition to the market (according to the CFM

Board). Attached is a preliminary schedule of our involvement this

year. Four MGs have expressed their desire and willingness to serve

as a leader at one of the market dates. This year, I envision on MG to

serve as a leader/mentor to 3 Intern/Associates at each session. The

focus subjects for each market session are my ideas and are subject
to the leaders’ endorsement
June 29 Pollinator gardens Children’s Activity: Plant Cosmos in

newspaper cup Children’s Activity: Plant pumpkin in
July 13 Fall Gardens

newspaper roll Children’s Activity: Plant or transplant
August 10 Using Herbs

herbs Children’s Activity: Plant garlic in 3”
September 7 Preserving

pot

-Mary W. Stephens

Final Report on the Gardenfest Activities

--submitted by Gerry Ault

Garden Fest 2019 was held at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens on April 27, 2019. Randall County
Master Gardeners participated in this fundraiser. Kathy Colburn, Gerry Ault & Donna Griffin were the
co-chairs again this year.
The co-chairs met in early February to set dates for future meetings & workshops with our committee
members. It was decided to make only 20 cedar flower boxes, 20 hypertufa planters and 15 succulent
planters. We had 18 Master Gardener committee members that signed up to help us this year. Our
first committee meeting was held on Feb. 16th. Michele Stewart & her hubby volunteered to make
our succulent planters using donated fence pickets. Martha Bufford & Chuck volunteered to make
Texas flags & yard planters out of fence pickets. Kathy set a date of March 23rd for the workshop to
make the hypertufa planters in her garage. We had a great turnout of Master Gardeners and interns
for this workshop.
Thanks to Roger, we had quite a few rescue plants from the Canyon Courthouse. He delivered
sedum, day lilies, catmint and Jupiter’s Beard to Gerry’s. I planted these in donated pots in
preparation for our fundraiser.
Geraniums were ordered from Irwin’s Greenhouse for our flower boxes. Donna & Steve made our
cedar flower boxes. We painted our flower boxes on April 13th at the Randall County Extension
Office. We had another great turnout of Master Gardeners and Interns. April 25th we gathered again
in Kathy’s garage & planted our flower boxes, hypertufa planters and succulent planters.
The morning of Gardenfest we met at ABG at 7:30 am to setup. This year the gardens would only
allow 5 volunteers to be admitted free. Other volunteers had to pay their admission fee. Many of our
Master Gardeners donated & brought vegetable & garden plants, herbs, gardening art, books &
magazines. We had a great turnout of Master Gardeners and interns. Some of our interns stayed
during the entire GardenFest.
We had two raffle items – 1st prize was a potting bench built by Master Gardener, Tim Craddock and
a Texas Flag built by Master Gardeners, Chuck & Martha Bufford. Our raffle raised $220.00.
Many thanks to our Master Gardeners & Interns for all their hard work. It was a great fundraiser. We
raised a total of 1301.00 from our other garden items plus the raffle.

Thank you’s!

Thank you to the following who helped out at the Randall County Extension Office last week – Joyce,
Cindy, Sandy, Don, Maureen, Cori & Terri, as well Cindy’s husband, who helped remove the ugly
trees!

Announcing MG June birthdays!
:

Rose Ann Smith, June 4
Jean Grossman, June 11
Cindy Pichcuskie, June 14
Sharron Amero, June 22

If you have not turned in your birthday information to the Membership Committee, please
email Janita Stanfield ([email protected]) your name, month, and date of your birthday
so the Membership Committee can recognize you.

Thank you! Janita Stanfield