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Plant disease inspectors to go door to door in Beaufort, Colleton area.
CLEMSON — Clemson University and USDA plant industry
officials on June 9 will begin conducting a house-to-house search
for a harmful plant disease in the Beaufort area. Searchers will be
looking for citrus plants with citrus-greening disease. The disease
poses a serious threat to the citrus industry nationwide. The
public’s assistance is needed in finding citrus plants in backyards
in the area. For more information about citrus greening, go to the USDA Website: www.SaveOurCitrus.org. State plant industry officials have set up a webpage on which people can report suspected citrus greening. The website is http://www.clemson.edu/public/regulatory/plant_industry/invasive_exotic_programs/ A Clemson University News Services press release provides background on citrus greening. The release is available online: http://www.clemson.edu/newsroom/articles/2009/april/Citrus_disease.php5 In Beaufort, contact Clemson Extension Agent Laura Lee Rose for more information. Her contact number is 843-470-3655, ext. 117. In Clemson, contact Christel F. Harden, Department of Plant Industry Clemson University, at 864-506-5386 (cell). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * President’s Message I'm Will Balk, and I thought I
might give a sort of introduction of myself as your new President.
We were living at the Sandhills Experiment Station, outside of Columbia, where my father had taken his first job on the research faculty after returning from the Pacific in WW2. It was the beginning of an extended relationship with the Clemson Extension Service and with horticulture, since my father retired some 35 years later as the Director of the Edisto Experiment Station in Barnwell County. My four siblings and I grew up on several thousand acres of horticultural and agricultural research, and many of my summer jobs were in assisting the research of the scientists and farmers and horticulturists on the Station. I am a hopeless plantsman – not so much a gardener. It's the joy of learning a plant or a species or a genus, of trying to comprehend its peculiarities and quirks and demands that gets me most excited. Design and layout are joyful diversions for me, but it's the knowledge and its acquisition that really gets my blood rushing. And all this has molded me. I'm hopeful that this lifelong devotion to things horticultural has provided me with the abilities I'll need in helping LMGA prosper and in working with and learning from all of you Masters of gardening. Now back to getting my hands dirty! Will MG Volunteers Urgently Needed We have a number of ongoing projects where help is needed right now including: Ask a Master Gardener Hotline in the Beaufort Office. Senior Aide and MG Ginny, who was working 20 hours per week, is no longer with the C Extension Service. Let’s try and fill those hours with MG volunteers. The CES needs us more than ever right now; please offer to help. Turf Love and Rent a Master Gardener projects are both in need of more volunteers. One (or more) persons with experience using Excel spreadsheets. Scheduling volunteers – this can be done from your home phone. Historians – one or more volunteers from each region are needed to read the local newspapers and other publications and clip articles pertaining to the LMGA. Volunteers are needed to make note of gardening activities in the area and submit the dates, times and contact information to the local project coordinators for the newsletter and website. In May we hold a one day Lawn Care Workshop in Bluffton. Volunteers are needed for publicity, poster distribution, soliciting donations, room set up and break down, information booths, logistical support, refreshments and many incidental volunteer opportunities. Please contact your Beaufort, Hilton Head or Bluffton project coordinator if you can help out in any way. Member Information Master Gardener Interns --- Please remember that your forty (40) hours of volunteer work must be completed within one year of graduation. LMGA is currently looking at additional opportunities for volunteer hours during the evening and weekend for persons who are unavailable during working hours. |
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