Penn State Master Gardeners of Mercer County

My tree bark gallery slightly updated - it can be downloaded as a poster from my blog https://robymilling.blogspot.co.uk//absolutely-barking.html It's an A2 pdf (which is 4 times A4, but the will resize to A3 or A4).

LAST CALL! Attention 1st Grade Teachers across Pennsylvania! Register your classroom today for our virtual (live or pre-recorded options available in most counties) Poison Prevention lesson today. The lesson meets first grade State Standards in Healthful Living (Standard 10.2: Health and the Environment; E) as well as Environment and Ecology-Humans and the Environment (Standard 4.5: Integrated Pest Management; . To register your class:... https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3mEYIqmg35Wq3VH Questions? Contact your local Master Gardener Program.

Join the Master Gardeners of Butler County for a great morning of gardening fun to help beat the Winter Blues! When: Saturday, February 20, 2021 Time: 8:30AM-12...:00PM Where: Virtual, on Zoom Speakers: Pittsburgh Gardening Guru Doug Oster, Horticulturist Todd Boland, Writer Joseph Tychonievich Topics of Discussion: Extending the Vegetable Growing Season Foliage, the Forgotten Friend Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style for Today's Garden Register: https://extension.psu.edu/winter-blues-and-gardens-of-green

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Check out this great series for a Q and A on plant problems.

Naturally occurring ostrich ferns? Help out a researcher!

Can you tell the temperature by listening to crickets? Yes! The snowy tree cricket is famous as the cricket whose song can be used to tell the temperature. As... explained in the Introduction, nearly all crickets and katydids make songs from which temperature can be calculated. However, in most cases, the elements that are linearly related to temperature and too rapid to be quantified by ear. The fame of the snowy tree cricket as a thermometer is based on the fact that it is a widespread, dooryard species that produces a countable chirp at a very regular rate. This allows the temperature at the calling cricket’s location to be easily estimated from the chirp rate. In the eastern United States, a simple formula for determining Fahrenheit temperature is to count the number of chirps in 13 s and add 41. Snowy tree crickets in the West call with a somewhat higher chirp rate. In Oregon, for example, count the number of chirps in 12 s and add 38. To use the closely related Riley’s tree cricket as a thermometer, count the number of chirps in 21 s and add 38. Page 206 from Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Kaytidids, and Crickets of the United States by Carpinera, Scott & Walker (Cornell University Press, 2004).