If you have a passion for gardening and enjoy teaching others how to grow plants, the Purdue Extension Service has a class for you.

KOSCIUSKO — The Master Gardener program is one way that the Purdue Extension puts knowledge to work and helps people grow throughout Indiana. The program helps gardeners grow by providing them with intensive training in horticultural principles. Participants, in turn, share their knowledge by providing volunteer leadership and service to their communities. This fall, 13 …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Looking for something interesting and exciting to do this fall on Tuesday evenings? Do you enjoy working in the garden? Enjoy volunteering? Do you want to help teach others about horticulture and grow beautiful gardens and plants? If so, then the Master Gardener program is for you. During this program, you can learn …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Looking for something interesting and exciting to do this fall on Tuesday evenings? Do you enjoy working in the garden? Enjoy volunteering? Do you want to help teach others about horticulture and grow beautiful gardens and plants? If so, then the Master Gardener program is for you. During this program, you can learn …read more.

WARSAW — Looking for something interesting and exciting to do this fall on Tuesday evenings? Do you enjoying working in the garden? Enjoy volunteering? Do you want to help teach others about horticulture and grow beautiful gardens and plants? If so, then the Master Gardener program is for you. During this program you can learn …read more.

By Gail Jacobs Master Gardener Are you mailboxes overflowing with seed and plant catalogues?  I always enjoy browsing new plants and dreaming where I could I possibly put more. This exercise generally gets me in trouble but for those willing to get more than they bargained for read on! I recently attended a talk that …read more.

By JOYCE ARLEEN CORSON Master Gardener Several years ago good friend, former teacher and motivational speaker, Vernon Zurcher, 1929-1997, prepared and presented a slide presentation “Plants are like People.” I have remembered many of his illustrations and think of them often when I am in my garden. After I became an Indiana Naturalist Master, I …read more.

By JOYCE ARLEEN CORSON Master Gardener When it’s your garden, you have a personal attachment. Someone may do the planting, but you will not be far away, not missing a moment of all that is involved. It’s time to get busy, too, if you want to have fruit and flowers for summer. Finally we have …read more.

By JEFF BURBINK Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN — Applications for the fall 2016 Elkhart County Master Gardener program are now available. The deadline for submitting an application is 4:30 p.m. Friday, August 5. The Purdue University Extension Service in Elkhart County sponsors the program.  Master Gardeners is much more than a series of …read more.

ELKHART COUNTY — Elkhart County Master Gardeners helped people with a wide variety of issues during April, according to Jeff Burbrink, an extension educator with Purdue Extension Service in Elkhart County. The Answer Line is a service operated by the Elkhart County’s Master Gardener program. Burbrink said the most popular questions in April were early …read more.

By JOYCE ARLEEN CORSON Master Gardener SYRACUSE — It isn’t too late to plant annual, perennial and biennial flower seeds for summer blossoms, maybe not this summer, but the following for sure. Why is it necessary to start plants before it’s warm outdoors? Well, for some species, it isn’t too early, directly sown seeds into …read more.

By JEFF BURBRINK Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN — The Elkhart County Master Gardener Class will be offering three programs on perennials this winter. The focus of the program will be how to add perennial plants to the landscape in various conditions like sun or shade. There will also be information on the …read more.

By AMY MUNCY Advanced Master Gardener WARSAW — Many of you may already know about what you can and what you should not compost. I have found the following items left out keeps the compost cleaner and able to use quicker. What I mean is that you can compost anything that is natural but in …read more.