Welcome
Tennessee Extension Master Gardener Program is a UT Extension Program
TEMGs are volunteers who have a love of plants and horticulture coupled with training to teach and assist Tennessee residents
Save the Date - Expo 2025
EXPO 2025!!
Tipton County Master Gardeners monthly meeting
November Meeting
We met on November 7 and had quite an informative demonstration on planting with bulbs led by Kyle McLane, Manager of Grounds Horticulture at Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Our new officers for 2025 were also elected. Our 2025 officers will be President, Debbie Griffin; Vice President, Sam Nystrom; Secretary, Christine Hight; Treasurer Austin Dillard; and Past President, Cathleen Rainey. Our next meeting will be Thursday, December 5, and will be our Christmas party.
OUR PROJECTS
Extension Office
Landscaping of the Extension Office at the old Train Depot building in the Historic District of Covington
Tipton County Community Garden
Our Master Gardeners have a plot at the Community Garden and they also help other plot owners with gardening advice. We have also held classes at the site. This is just another way the Tipton County Master Gardeners help educate the community.
Monthly "to do" list
November
Plant
- Now is a good time to plant those cold weather annuals, such as pansies and violas.
Maintenance
- Pull up all annuals that have died back, cut back your perennials and remove all fallen leaves from
the area to use as mulch.
- Retain the seeds of all the vegetables and flowers you want to keep in your garden for the next
growing season. Avoid exposing them to moisture and keep them in a dry, airtight container until
you are ready to plant them.
- Rake up all dead plant material, cuttings, twigs, weeds, and leaves and compost them.
- If your soil is hard and compacted or you just need to supplement your existing top soil, cover your
garden with a layer of compost and turn the earth over. If you need to correct the acidity of your
soil by adding limestone, this is the time to do it.
- November is an ideal time to lift up the dahlia, cannas and begonia tubers in your garden to store
indoors during the winter. The best time to dig them up is usually after the first frost. This is also a
good time to dig up and divide overgrown clumps of herbaceous perennials and replant them while
the soil is still warm.
- Protect any vulnerable perennials in your garden from severe winter weather by applying a layer of
straw over them. Mulching with wood chips or pine straw is also a good defense.
Helping the Girl Scouts with planning an event "It's Your World - Change It"
