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September | September | September | September | 1 | 2 | 3 - Penn State Extension: Growing a Greener Garden
9:00 am-12:30 pm October 3, 2020 Penn State Extension: Growing a Greener Garden – $15
Sharpen your gardening skills and learn what those soil test results really mean during the Growing a Greener Garden webinar. Grow some weird and wacky vegetables and get the latest dirt on new perennials and how to care for old ones. You’ll want to start winter sowing after learning about this unique gardening method! Join us for great gardening information and tips, and ask your gardening questions during our Question and Answer sessions!
This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/growing-a-greener-garden.
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4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 - Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting
6:30 pm-7:30 pm October 8, 2020-October 10, 2020 Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting – FREE
Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby states. Join us for Spotted Lanterfly Public Meeting webinar and learn how to recognize Spotted Lanternfly and what you can do to help stop its spread.
Lycorma delicatula, commonly known as the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF), is a new invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania since its discovery in Berks County in 2014. SLF presents a significant threat to Pennsylvania agriculture, including the grape, tree-fruit, hardwood, and nursery industries, which collectively are worth nearly $18 billion to the state’s economy.
What will you learn? - How to identify SLF
- Impacts to local industry and communities
- Current quarantine area in Pennsylvania
- Actions you can take to help stop the spread
This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-public-meeting-webinar.
| 9 - Penn State Extension: Garden Hotline Live! October Oddities
12:00 pm-1:00 pm October 9, 2020 Penn State Extension: Garden Hotline Live! October Oddities – FREE
Don’t get spooked by the autumn ailments in your garden – Garden Hotline Live is here to help! Don’t miss the Garden Hotline Live! October Oddities webinar for tips on gardening this fall from our expert Master Gardeners. Do you have a sick plant, a weed you just can’t seem to ID, or a burning need for horticultural advice? Some questions we receive on our Garden Hotline are issues that plague us all, while others are so bizarre that it takes several experts to puzzle them out. Garden Hotline Live! answers a whole host of questions that we receive from all levels of gardeners across the Commonwealth. How does it work? We collect questions up to 10 days in advance of the webinar and assign them to our expert Master Gardener Coordinators and Master Gardeners to research. Presenters then share their responses, illustrated with photo-filled PowerPoint and poll questions during the webinar so viewers can learn from the questions (and sometimes mistakes) of their fellow Pennsylvania gardeners. Have a question you’d like to see answered on Garden Hotline Live? Submit it for a future episode! This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/garden-hotline-live-october-oddities. - Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting
6:30 pm-7:30 pm October 9, 2020-October 10, 2020 Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting – FREE
Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby states. Join us for Spotted Lanterfly Public Meeting webinar and learn how to recognize Spotted Lanternfly and what you can do to help stop its spread.
Lycorma delicatula, commonly known as the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF), is a new invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania since its discovery in Berks County in 2014. SLF presents a significant threat to Pennsylvania agriculture, including the grape, tree-fruit, hardwood, and nursery industries, which collectively are worth nearly $18 billion to the state’s economy.
What will you learn? - How to identify SLF
- Impacts to local industry and communities
- Current quarantine area in Pennsylvania
- Actions you can take to help stop the spread
This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-public-meeting-webinar.
| 10 - Penn State Extension: Second Saturday: The Life Cycle of the Great Horned Owl
10:00 am-12:00 pm October 10, 2020 Penn State Extension: Second Saturday: The Life Cycle of the Great Horned Owl – $10
The Second Saturday: The Life Cycle of the Great Horned Owl webinar, will bring together Penn State Extension Master Gardeners and local wildlife photographer, Pamela Dimeler as we explore Pamela’s experience “My Journey with a Pair of Great Horned Owls.” If you have strolled in Delaware County’s open spaces, you have likely been in the presence of apex predators. Great Horned Owls hide in plain sight, hunt, mate, and raise their young in a world fraught with danger from above and a banquet below. Share a photo and video journey of a pair of Great Horned Owls in Delco presented by wildlife enthusiast Pamela Dimeler. Pamela is a photographer and videographer specializing in wildlife and she has a special interest in birds. She has been observing and documenting a pair of Great Horned Owls in Delaware County for eight years. This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/second-saturday-the-life-cycle-of-the-great-horned-owl. - Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting
6:30 pm-7:30 pm October 10, 2020-October 10, 2020 Penn State Extension: Spotted Lanternfly Public Meeting – FREE
Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby states. Join us for Spotted Lanterfly Public Meeting webinar and learn how to recognize Spotted Lanternfly and what you can do to help stop its spread.
Lycorma delicatula, commonly known as the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF), is a new invasive insect that has spread throughout southeastern Pennsylvania since its discovery in Berks County in 2014. SLF presents a significant threat to Pennsylvania agriculture, including the grape, tree-fruit, hardwood, and nursery industries, which collectively are worth nearly $18 billion to the state’s economy.
What will you learn? - How to identify SLF
- Impacts to local industry and communities
- Current quarantine area in Pennsylvania
- Actions you can take to help stop the spread
This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-public-meeting-webinar.
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18 | 19 | 20 | 21 - Penn State Extension: Growing Dahlias
7:00 pm-8:00 pm October 21, 2020 Penn State Extension: Growing Dahlias – FREE
Dahlias are one of the most beautiful flowers available as they come in a wide range of colors, are easy to grow and can provide an almost unlimited supply of cut flowers from July until frost. The Growing Dahlias webinar will cover a few simple but necessary steps to ensure your dahlias thrive in the garden along with where they can be obtained, how to store tubers over the winter and dividing. Photographs showing the wide range of dahlia colors and forms available will be shown to hopefully get everyone excited about growing a couple of these fantastic flowers! This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/growing-dahlias. - Penn State Extension: Fall Garden Observations: Beginning a Botanical Sketchbook
7:00 pm-8:15 pm October 21, 2020 Penn State Extension: Fall Garden Observations: Beginning a Botanical Sketchbook – $5
In this Fall Garden Observations: Beginning a Botanical Sketchbook webinar, students will begin a sketchbook of observations and fill it with graphite, watercolor, and pen art as they explore a different aspect of the natural world. Botanical art draws together art and science in this time-honored genre. Draw leaves, flowers, fungi, and more and sow the seeds for a lifetime love of drawing and documenting botanical specimens. Watch for information or draw along! The goal for this webinar is to have fun and make it your own! No experience required! Your instructor will be using the following materials: a Stillman and Birn Zeta series sketchbook, graphite pencils, eraser, a Micron pen, and watercolors and brushes. Artist materials are not required – you can use any blank paper (unlined is best), pencils, erasers, and waterproof pen (if you plan to paint over your line drawing), colored pencils or watercolor paints, and brushes. Please provide your own botanical specimens. This is not a Primex affiliated event. To sign up please visit extension.psu.edu/fall-garden-observations-beginning-a-botanical-sketchbook.
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25 | 26 | 27 | 28 - PHS: Green City Teachers
5:30 pm-7:00 pm October 28, 2020  PHS: Green City Teachers – $35 to $50
Green City Teachers, which is traditionally a space for youth educators inspiring the next generation of gardeners, is going virtual! Over five weeks, we will cover topics like basic horticulture, light gardening, school habitat gardens, and so much more. If you purchase a Green City Teachers Kit*, you’ll have everything you need to follow along with the weekly workshop demonstrations: materials for starting a container garden, PVC to build light structures for indoor growing, worm bin starter materials, and more. Open to anyone working with kids. You do not need to be a teacher, and you do not need to work in Philadelphia to participate. *Kits available to the first 25 registrants that purchase the kit option. Kits available by pickup only. This series runs Wednesday October 28, and November 4, 11, 18, & 25.
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