Purdue Extension Service
Purdue Extension Service
Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Subject: HORT ALERT: Home Show, Earth Day, Plant Sale
April 3, 2008
A quick note to let you know of some of our upcoming events this spring.
This weekend (April 4 through 6), Purdue Extension and the Master Gardeners will have a booth at the Evansville Home Show at Roberts Stadium. Our booth will cover specifics on native plants, invasive exotics, and developing rain gardens. We will be located at the Gate 3 vestibule, just outside of the ticket booths. You can visit us without buying a ticket...or you can buy a ticket and come out to meet us, and then go back in again.
I hope you’ll visit. We were pretty lonely last year.... and we’ve got lots of great stuff to show you!
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Earth Day weekend (April 18, 19 and 20), there’s a bunch of things going on! I will be out at Angel Mounds Native American site, demonstrating gardening techniques during the Eco Trek program they’ll be holding. I’ll be out there on Saturday from noon to 4.
Throughout the weekend, Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists, as well as other groups, will be holding their annual Earth Day celebration at the Howell Wetlands, on Evansville’s west side. There will be nature walks and tours, crafts and games for the kids, and much more!
Also: On Saturday and Sunday (19 and 20) the Vanderburgh 4H Center will be holding their Outdoor Living Expo (formerly the 4H Spring Roundup). There will be hundreds of outdoor products. There will be carnival rides for the kids ($10 bracelets let kids ride all day), workshops, horse rides, games, concessions, live entertainment, chain saw carving, a chili cook off, antique and tractor pulls and more. Entrance fee is only $2 per carload!
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The Master Gardener Plant Sale will be the first weekend in May (5/3-4). We will be at a new site this year: The Vanderburgh 4H Center! We hope this move will give us more room to spread our plants out...we basically outgrew Washington Square Mall. I’ll have more information on that later this month, but start making out your plant shopping lists now!
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Please don’t be too impatient to get into the garden. The soil is really way too wet to be digging or walking on...you’ll cause severe soil compaction problems if you get out too soon. Also, I’m not 100% sure we’re not going to get one more taste of cold weather...it was last year at this time that we went from record warm to record cold in a two-day period.
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If you can’t find my weekly column with the Evansville Courier and Press...it’s because they’ve moved me from Sundays to Fridays. Look for me way in the back, in the Home Section of the Friday newspaper. If you don’t get the Friday paper, you can still find most of my articles on my website (see below). You might also want to consider calling the Evansville Courier and letting them know how you feel about the move (pro or con)...just be polite! You can call the Editorial Department at 812-464-7412.