Master Gardeners

Through a new upgrade to their popular Hortsense website, a team of scientists at Washington State University are helping Extension agents, Master Gardeners, and Washington residents attract beneficial insects, predators and pollinators to their gardens, farms and landscapes. Carrie Foss, director of the Urban Integrated Pest Management program, partnering with David James, WSU entomologist, added […]

Worldwide, gardeners and growers are using grafts to create hardier, healthier vegetable plants. Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers, and nearly all the watermelon produced in Japan, Korea, southern Spain and Italy, Turkey, and Greece are grafted. By merging the roots and stalks of two separate vegetables into a single plant, grafting helps vegetables fight soil-borne pests […]

PASCO, Wash. – Staff from the Pasco Lowe’s store built and installed nearly 100 community garden beds to help feed local families, and the Master Gardeners of Benton and Franklin counties recently saluted their efforts with the 2016 Volunteer of the Year award. More than 45 Lowe’s Heroes volunteers contributed time, funds and supplies to […]

You gaze out at your garden and notice your rose has yellow leaves.  Suddenly you realize your plant has a problem and you don’t know what to do to fix it. It’s time to turn to your WSU Master Gardener Volunteer diagnostic clinic for help. Where do you find your local Master Gardener diagnostic clinic? […]