Daily Archives: March 28, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm – More Fruit Please! Expanding Your Home Harvest

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With proper planning and plant selection, fruiting trees and shrubs can be an attractive and low-maintenance option for growing food in the home landscape.  Former City Fruit program director for Earthworks Ben Crouch will provide basic tips and outline resources for planning, planting, tending and harvesting a home orchard at this Sunday, April 3 workshop at the Hunnewell Building at the Arnold Arboretum. Learn the particulars of growing blueberries, apples, pears, plums and other less common fruit. There’s nothing fresher than home grown.$30 for Arboretum members, $35 for nonmembers.  Register at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1#April.  Photo of plum tree by Joshua James Evans.

Saturday, April 2, 9:00 am – Lawns: Installation, Care and Maintenance

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Jeff Moor from Jonathan Green Turf Products will present a free seminar on lawn care on Saturday, April 2 at Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.  Enjoy a great looking, healthy lawn this year using traditional and/or organic methods. Join the staff for Jeff Moor’s popular presentation on spring lawn care and learn how to get your lawn off to a great start and keep it healthy through the seasons. Jeff will show you grass seed varieties you can use for various lawn conditions, how to establish a new lawn, patch, or over-seed, and explain the different options you have for fertilizing, crabgrass control, and weed and pest control. Bring your questions. For more information, call 508-435-4314.