Wisdom
Two most typical reasons Clients' plants are in distress.
What are Over-watering and Under-watering?
BCE* (*Best Class Ever) Cap Orderer, Cap Money-Collector and Graduation Party Planner co-lead.
Who is Vivien Williamson?
What not to be wearing when having a glass of red wine.
What is the UC Master Gardeners badge?
Our approximate calculated Value per Hour as MG Volunteers.
What is approximately $35/hour?
The unique "Tree" unveiled during "Adding Edibles to Your Existing Landscape...."
What is the "Cheeto Tree"?
Most popular MG response when you are asked a question and don't know the answer.
What is "It depends...."?
Lived in the Panama Canal Zone, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia for 16 years.
Who is Nellie Beatty?
The practice of leaving mowed grass clippings on the lawn.
What is Grasscycling?
The year the Contra Costa County Master Gardeners program was established.
What is 1983?
The TV Show: Home Improvement "Neighbor" that conversed with us about Winter Gardening.
Who is "Wilson"? (aka Jim Marchetti, Mike Camara, and Nellie Beatty!)
Wardrobe item to check prior to each public speaking engagement.
What is checking to see that your zipper is zipped.
MG 2023 Grad with a passion for bicycle tourism.
Who is Jim DeFrisco? (P.S. Thank you for 2023 Grad party planning and cooking!)
First thing to establish when trying to diagnose a plant issue.
What is "identifying the plant under consideration"?
The "approximate" number of active Master Gardeners in California at last official count (2020-2021).
What is "Over 6000"?
The Sharks recently invested in an Espalier-ing Book: the number of steps are involved in "simple" Espalier-ing.
What is "188 steps" (?) (Sharks: please confirm!!)
The essential component this is sometimes surprisingly missing from purchased bagged potting soil.
What is "mineral content"?
Returning to the UC Master Gardener Program 24 years after first MG Certification.
Who is Windy Martinez?
The three "Signal Words" used on pesticide labels.
What are "Caution", "Warning", and "Danger"?
The first two California Counties in which the Master Gardeners were established in 1980.
What are Sacramento County and Riverside County?
The 3 aspects covered in the 3/2/23 "Good Things Come in Small Packages" Zoom presentation.
What are container gardening, vertical gardening, and greenhouse gardening?
Speakers' Bureau "Two-Word" question that needs to be conveyed in presentation.
What is "So What?"
Lived in Jerusalem and UCLA Graduate from Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Who is Jon Schwartz?
The practice of slowing plant growth to withstand changes in environmental conditions when moving a plant from greenhouse to garden.
What is "hardening"?
California has 58 counties: the number of California Counties that have Master Gardener programs.
What is 53 counties?
The two types of pruning cuts featured in "Growing and Orchard in Your Backyard".
What are the "Heading Cut" and the "Thinning Cut"?