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WEEKLY HCMG Newsletter>
Weekly Newsletter for February 18
February 18, 2008
Weekly HCMG Newsletter for February 18
February Monthly Meeting:
Our HCMG February Monthly Meeting will be held this
Tuesday, February 19, at Chicopee Woods Ag Center,
beginning at 6:30 p.m. Well-known world-traveler and
gourmet Tricia Terrell will be our guest speaker, with an
illustrated talk on the Gardens of Japan.
Agenda topics include updates on our Spring Garden Expo,
the Tissue Culture Workshop, and the Senior Center
Landscape Project. Flyers for the Spring Expo will be
available for your distribution. We’ll also have volunteer
sign-up sheets for the Expo.
Mr. Al Rothe of GMGA will attend to present a grant check
for the Hall Board of Education landscape project.
Members whose last names begin with the letters from “M” to
“S” are asked to bring dessert or veggie trays for our
social time.
Seeds for Afghanistan Project:
For those who are interested in an easy but worthwhile
project, please consider donating to the Seeds for
Afghanistan initiative.
Seeds for Afghanistan needs the following:
- All types of ordinary vegetable, herbs, flowers seeds
that grow in Zone 4 of the
North American continent. Fresh seeds only, please, no
more than one year old.
-Ordinary types are best, especially eggplant, tomatoes and
leafy greens -- exotics are not desirable.
-While vegetable seeds are important, so are flowers, which
can be sold at market to help sustain a widow and her
family and provide the beauty so loved by the Afghan
people. Particularly flowers that last so they can be
taken to market (straw flowers, sunflowers ... but no
poppies, please.)
The seeds are needed by February 28, so please bring to the
Feb. 19 monthly meeting, or call Elaine Gerke at
770-503-6642 or email at jolliff-gerke@mindspring.com for
pick up.
Tissue Culture Workshop:
A basic and advanced Tissue Culture Workshop is scheduled
for May 21 and 22, to be held at Chicopee Woods Ag Center.
Day 1 will be the basic class, and day 2 will be the
advanced. Fee for day 1 is $30.00, and fee for both days is
$50.00. Registration information is now on our website.
Registration will be limited to 30 participants.
Dolores Smith and Dorothy Krause are co-chairs for this
event.
Home and Garden Show
The Home and Garden show is this coming weekend at the
Georgia Mountains Center. Several of our Master Gardeners
are making presentations, plus we will have the Ask a
Master Gardeners booth.
New Apparel Options on the HCMG Website!
We now have the opportunity to purchase from a great
variety of clothing merchandise listed on our website. From
the selections you make, you order and pay, and then items
will have our HCMG logo added. Helen Hyatt will then
deliver to the next monthly meeting.
There will be four times a year to order. The first time
period ends March 15. Payment can be through Paypal, or
through credit card arrangements with Helen.
To view the catalog, go to www.hcmgs.com home page, and
click on “HCMG APPAREL”.
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