Submitted by Maggie
Dick Raymond, Crow Wing County Master Gardener, took time last night to visit the Great Green Gardener’s gardens at the CWC fairgrounds. Dick is a fascinating speaker with decades of knowledge – beginning with teaching from his mother when he was just a young boy.
Some things we learned last night are how to use Epsom Salts as a garden fertilizer, that Cilantro seeds are called Coriander (used in pickling – yum!), how to plant tomatoes to grow strong stalks – the horizontal planting method – and when and how to prune back plants.
Mr. Raymond stressed to us that the job of a plant is to return to seed. If you intend to harvest seeds from your plants, then let them grow until they flower and seeds form. If however you want fruit or just leaves from your plants, then prune them so more growth energy is put back into the plant and not into its seeding.
THANK YOU! Dick Raymond for all that you shared. We learned a lot from you. We hope you will come to visit us at the fair this year and see how our gardens have grown by then!
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