Get answers to your gardening questions and network with seasoned gardeners. See live demonstrations of flower arranging, dividing perennials, fall pruning, lawn repair, varmint control and composting. Watch a rain barrel being made and you may win it as a door prize! Plan to shop our vendors and pick up useful and decorative items and plants for your garden. Here's the day's schedule:
8:30am DEM
O - Composting Barrels
8:55am DEMO - Fall Arrangements
9:30am SPEAKER - Mitchell Mote, UT extension agent. Topic: Practical Vegetable Gardening. utextension.tennessee.edu/rutherford
10:30am DEMO - Container Gardening
11:00am SPEAKER - Tammy Algood, host of TV's "Volunteer Gardener" and cookbook author. Topic: Using and Keeping Your Homegrown Veggies. wnpt.org/productions/vg
Noon DEMO - Rain Barrels/Gardens
12:30pm DEMO - Dividing Perennials
1:00pm SPEAKER - Kevin Guenther, an award-winning landscape architect and the founder of The Sustainable Living Guild. Topic is Gardens: The Pathway to Resourceful Living. sustainablelivingguild.com
2:10pm DEMO - Varmint Control
2:35pm DEMO - Self-Watering Containers
3:00pm SPEAKER - Mike Berkley, GroWild, Inc., native plant specialist. Topic: Natural Designing with Native Plants. growildinc.com
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Tickets are $5 (under 12 free); proceeds fund 4-H scholarships. For more information about Master Gardeners of Rutherford County, visit mastergardeners-rc.org