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Gardening with Native Prairie Plants & Grasses March 10 and 11, 2018 The 2018 Harvey County Home and Garden Show is Saturday, March 11, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, March 12, 12-5 p.m., at the National Guard Armory , 400 Grandview, Newton Ks.  Info Call 316-284-6930

Dig This! What is Bio Char? How to enrich your soil.  Reservations need to be made by Monday the 15th. Call 620/672-6121 January 17th Noon to 1pm Pratt  County Extension Office Pratt County 824 W. 1st St Pratt, KS 67124 620-672-6121 620-672-9566 fax pr@listserv.ksu.edu $10 per person Includes a Light meal

  Reno County Master Gardeners This year's spirit award goes to Andy and Mary for their Christmas Fantasyland display. A roughly 4' by 8' table was converted into chocolate cake mountains and valleys covered with white frosting snow.  This was accented with cookie trees and houses throughout.  A festive old-time toy train ran through a cake tunnel and over a bridge.  That's our Andy, a Master Gardener maybe, but still a kid at Christmas time. Submitted by jzabel, p hotos by bcrockford.

Our Reno County Extension Master Gardener's ( RCEMG ) hosted a booth Saturday October 21st at the Farmer's Market, 2nd and Washington, in Hutchinson. The annual Plant Swap of perennials, houseplants, and seeds was well received. Jacqui Wood RCEMG  shares plants with David & Liz Welty 4H family...Lanae, Isaac and Evan all enjoy gardening and are members of the Royal Clovers 4H club. The swap was a great success. With about 25 different participants bringing items for the farmers market customers.  All plants were shared free of charge to gardeners and plant lovers young and old. One master gardener, Allen Hirst, collected over 15,000 milkweed seeds. Milkweed is desired by monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plants. They lay their eggs on them because they are the only food the monarch caterpillars eat. Monarch numbers are declining, partly due to the loss of open spaces where milkweeds grow. You can ...

Our Reno County Extension Master Gardener's ( RCEMG ) host a booth each 3rd Saturday at the Farmer's Market, 2nd and Washington, in Hutchinson. Folks who stop by the booth can sign up for the Reno County Extension's quarterly electronic newsletter. The newsletter has research and up-to-date information in the related fields of Horticulture, Agriculture, Family Consumer, and 4-H.     Rae Leen Chesney  is September's winner of the door prize @   RCEMG booth @Reno County Farmer Market. The prize was a set of plant ID stakes and a notebook from the Kansas Prescribed Fire Council. The September booth's theme was fall landscaping and fire preparedness. A big thank you to Jess Crockford for sharing his expertise. Fall is a good time to clear cedars out of pastures and mow the tall grasses to limit the amount of fuel available and therefore limit wild fire damage around homes and farmsteads. Another late summer Farmer's Market RCEMG prize winner wa...