OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
MASTER GARDENER PRESENTATIONS

Herbs 101
Plan your first herb garden with 10 great, easy to grow herbs.  This introductory class will cover steps from selecting your garden site through recipes using your home grown herbs.

Orchids as Houseplants
Most orchids, especially those that are readily available to the home grower, are quite hardy and will reward the new owner by reblooming regularly if proper water, light, temperature, humidity and fertilizer are provided.

Green Gardening Makes a Difference
Learn what green gardening means and contributions you can make to the solution.

The Where, What, and When of Vegetable Gardening
Planning is key to having a productive vegetable garden.  It includes choosing the right location, testing and amending the soil, selecting which vegetables to grow, and knowing when to start plants indoors from seed so you will be ready to move into the garden in the spring.

Tree and Shrubs for the Home Landscape
Overwhelmed by the many choices?  Understand the factors to be considered when making selections for your yard, plus learn proper planting techniques for successful results.

Ohio Governor’s Residence & Heritage Garden
Let’s take a tour of the Governor’s Residence and Ohio Heritage Garden in Columbus.  Open to the Public (by pre-scheduling) this garden will introduce you to the variety of geological areas in Ohio and the native plants that inhabit them.  The Friends of the Ohio Governor’s Residence & Heritage Garden are the supporting organization that keeps this restoration and educational experience progressing.  Pat Gerred, Lake County Ambassador to the garden will introduce you to information about Ohio that may surprise you.

Avoiding Landscape Mistakes
Have you ever noticed how some landscapes grow more beautiful with time, some die, and some become overgrown and unsightly?  Planning ahead will help you save time, energy, and money.  This class will give you many conditions to consider before you dig.  Analyzing your soil, location, light, and purpose before you start will help you avoid disappointment.  How and where to start, garden fads, problems, water, mulching, and effects on the environment will be discussed.

Attracting Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
Creating a habitat for other creatures can add another dimension to your garden.  Learn what to plant, where to plant it, and how to identify your garden guests.

Composting - The Essentials
If you have a garden, a lawn, trees, shrubs or even just a few planter boxes, you have a use for compost.  And even more, you have the raw materials to create your own and a way to recycle all those kitchen scraps.  The basics of Backyard Composting will be discussed to get you started.

Container Gardening
This class will teach you how to get the most from your containers.  We will discuss proper planting methods and soil mixes.  Learn how to create seasonal displays and proper maintenance of your flower or vegetable container garden. 

Deer Oh Deer
A program that addresses the problem of increasing deer herds and the encroachment of development into natural areas. Learn which plants Deer love to eat and which ones’ they avoid.

Fireside Garden Dreaming
Inclement weather, what is a gardener to do?  Plan, design, catalogue shop, stay in shape.  Here are some helpful ideas to get you through the cold months.

Forcing Bulbs
Enjoy fresh flowers year-round.  Learn how to force bulbs and extend your garden magic. This would make a wonderful gift:

Master Gardener Home Landscaping: Doing It Right
Learn how to landscape your yard, what plants work best, and hints for your garden when the Ohio State University Extension Master Gardeners teach this four-part series!  Your thumb will be the greenest it has ever been!

A four part series. Each session lasts approximately one hour.
Session 1  Analyzing and Preparing the Site - site selection and soil testing
Session 2  Creating a Plan - getting started and establishing goals for your landscape
Session 3  Selecting and Planting - where, when and how of planting
Session 4  Maintaining the Landscape - protecting your investments with proper care

Native Plants for the Landscape
Why use native plants?  Learn about the multi season interest, the wildlife they feed, their adaptability to the local weather extremes, their easy care.  Can you use some in your landscape?  This power point presentation could help you decide!

Perennials for Non-Stop Color
Your garden can be colorful all year long.  This slide presentation will demonstrate seasons of color and give planting and care suggestions.  A hand-out gives information on light, soil conditions, and includes common and botanical names to help you in your search.

Plants for Winter Interest
Winter is the time to show off your garden. The slide series and lecture is sure to inspire you to turn your flat white view into a winter fairyland.

Putting the Garden to Bed
Fall clean up, composting, soil testing, amending the soil, mulch for winter protection B all of these activities help your garden have a good winter nap.  Pruning will also be reviewed.

Shade Gardening
Shade gardening is an opportunity and a challenge.  This approximately one hour presentation will cover some of the fundamentals of shade gardening such as:  How to evaluate your site, What things to consider for a shade garden, How to plan for a shade garden, What to consider when selecting plants.  The presentation will also review shade plants that bloom in early spring, summer or fall.  Many of these are new or unusual plants.  Come and learn how you can meet this challenge.

Starting Seeds
Discover a way to combat the winter blahs and get a head start on spring by starting seeds indoors.  This inexpensive hobby can be very rewarding while offering the gardener a larger variety of herbs, annuals, perennials and vegetables than can be found at the local garden center.  A small space in the corner of the basement can produce large numbers of plants.   You will learn how to get started, what materials are needed, how to select seeds and the requirements for success.

Wake Up Your Garden
Gardeners are always anxious get started in the spring.  This class is an overview of gardening tasks to be performed.  Clean-up, composting, pruning, fertilizing, soil testing, mole problems, and impatient gardeners will be discussed..