Due to covid restrictions, we are currently unable to meet in person
TEMGs are volunteers who have a love of plants and horticulture coupled with training to teach and assist Tennessee residents
Hands on projects are planned with the Senior Citizens Center to educate and engage them.
Annual Expo with plants and venders galore. Find anything you need for your garden here.
Left to right: Neil Bell, Past President; Carrie Hamm, Vice President; Cindy Seeley, Secretary; Susan Cranford, President; and Anita Feuring, Treasurer
Borrowed from University of Maryland Extension
Check out MG23
Taught by Joellen Dimond, TSU Extension Agent, on Family Plot
As shown by Wes Hopper on Family Plot
Borrowed from University of Minnesota Extension
Discussion by UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper
Selecting tomato plants and types
Selecting and preparing
the garden site
Fertilization
Water Management
Plant Support
Common Fungal, Bacterial and Virus Diseases
UT Extension Agent Booker T. Leigh
By UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper
- Mid-month start seeds of warm season vegetables, like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
- At end of month plant, move, and divide perennials, including ornamental grasses.
- Start herb seeds.
- Plant and/or move roses.
- Crepe myrtles - recommend that they not be topped.
- Evergreens and trees for size and shape.
- Remove dead wood from flowering shrubs.
- Cut back monkey grass, ornamental grasses, and ivy.
- Late in month prune hybrid tea roses by reducing canes by a third and cut out all crossed
branches. (Climbing roses are pruned in May.)
- Boxwood and spring flowering bulbs.
- Apply pre-emergent weed control when forsythia is in bloom.
- Apply post emergent weed control as needed.
- Spray dormant oil if not done in January.
- Late month good for clean-up.
- Remove debris and fallen leaves from planting beds.
