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GARDENING TIPS: If you didn’t get around to cleaning your gardening tools before putting them up this winter, do so now at the beginning of the season. Look them over and give them a good cleaning. Sharpen the business edges of shovels and hoes. Sand down wooden handles and then rub them down with linseed oil. Here’s one way to keep trowels, shovels, and other tools from getting rusty: Fill a 5-gallon bucket with sand almost to the top and then sprinkle some motor oil over the top. Stick the sharp ends of your tools in there when they’re not in use and they won’t get all rusty. Sarah P Duke Gardens
Duke Gardens now offers demonstrations and classes as online events; click here to register (even for the free events):
NC Native Plant Society meeting
The North Carolina Native Plant Society’s Southern Piedmont Chapter will host a presentation, 10 Great Spring Wildflower Walks in the Charlotte Region, on Sunday, March 14, 2–4pm, with Laura Domingo. Click here to read the latest newsletter and to sign up for the meeting.
Science adventures
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will host a Pollinators Love Plants! ecoEXPLORE citizen science program on Tuesday, March 9, 3–4pm. Students from kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to learn about the partnerships between plants and insects—how plants provide nectar to attract the insects that then move pollen from plant to plant. Visit the Facebook event page for more info, and click here to register and attend this free online event.
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will host a Super Plant Powers ecoEXPLORE citizen science program on Tuesday, March 23, 4–5pm. Students from kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to learn how plants can survive fires, live without needing the sun, and send their seeds flying for miles to make sure they survive. Visit the Facebook event page for more info, and click here to register and attend this free online event. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will host a Plant Invaders ecoEXPLORE citizen science program on Monday, March 29, 4–5pm. Students from kindergarten through 8th grade are invited to learn how non-native plants (some of which are brought in accidentally) can overrun the native plants and harm the environment. Visit the Facebook event page for more info, and click here to register and attend this free online event. The Weekend Gardener
WPTF’s Weekend Gardener radio show has been on the air since 1985 and is a wonderful 3-hour exploration of flower and lawn care, soil improvement and pest control ideas, and much more. It airs every Saturday, 8–11am, on 680am AND 98.5fm. If you were too busy to listen, you can always click here and listen to past shows.
NC State’s ‘Extension Gardener’
Here’s the Winter 2020 edition of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s online publication, “Extension Gardener”:
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