2024 January

• Regular Meeting
  • January 23, 2024, Carroll County Extension Office, 7 PM
  • Extra seeds will be available for club members
  • Winter Sowing
    • Information of winter sowing from Penn State
    • Another website for information: https://empressofdirt.net/winter-sowing/
    • 3 Stations
      • 1. Preparing milk Jug
        • Label jug with seed name
        • Use your solder iron to make many holes in the bottom of the jug for drainage and 4 to 8 holes on the sides about a half inch from the bottom.
        • Measure up 4 ” on the side and use your solder iron to make 2 elongated holes on either side of the jug handle.
        • Place a rubber band around your milk jug to use as a guide to cut a straight line around your jug
        • Starting in one elongated hole, carefuly cut just above the rubberband the long way to the 2nd elongated hole. Leave the handle attached to make a hinge,
      • 2. Neatly, fill your container with potting soil. Pat the soil down gently.
      • 3. Planting Seeds & Closing
        • Very carefully spread your seeds evenly across the top of your soil. 
        • Check your seed instructions to see if your seed needs covered.
        • Close your jug and secure the side opposite your handle with a small peice of tape.
        • Wrap a peice of tape carefully all the way around your jug to completely seal the middle
  • Create Diamond Clover Award Paperwork
    • We will complete our 2023 and start our 2024 Diamond Clover Paperwork
    • Link for Diamond Clover Awards
• Extra – On your own: PA Farm Show, Bombay Hook or Blackwater Birding, National Aquarium, Smithsonian Natural History Museum