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Kandiyohi County Extension Master Gardeners are organizing a June 20 bus trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
A "Garden in a Bag" including a tomato, green pepper and basil plant will be the giveaway May 24 in Kandiyohi County Extension's annual plant donation project. Additional plants will be available
Master Gardeners test seeds for the University of Minnesota. You can read about their favorites here.
'No Mow May' is well-intended — to provide flowers for early season pollinators — but after that month of growth, mowing more than one third of the plant’s tissue can harm the lawn.

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We keep hearing about the decline in bee population these days. The University of Minnesota has a Bee Lab and they have some simple suggestions for aiding the bee population in your garden.
Tips on when to prune trees — and what to look for as the season turns to spring — after snowpack and ice throughout the winter.
Just days ahead of the annual Thanksgiving holiday, community members gathered at Rustic Designs Flower Farm to craft cornucopia centerpieces to adorn their tables.
In this final column of the year, Sue Morris includes a report of her gardening season.
Columnist Sue Morris surveys her fellow certified Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Kandiyohi County to learn of their successes or failures in the garden in 2022.
There are currently two dozen certified Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Kandiyohi County. Morris requested information about what went well and what didn’t go as well during the 2022 growing season. For the next two weeks, she will share tidbits from those who responded.

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Hollow heart is not harmful and does not affect the quality, taste or nutrition of the vegetable.
Geraniums are an annual in Minnesota. There are several options for bringing them indoors to save for next year’s garden.
Milkweed may be planted in the fall with mulch as protective cover. Now is the time of year to collect the seed, or it may be purchased. Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on the leaves of milkweed, according to the National Wildlife Federation.

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