If you’d like to learn about growing fruit at your home or community garden, don’t miss the next event in the free Urban Orchard series. The Mid-Summer Fruit Review is happening Wednesday, June 26 at 4 p.m, led and hosted by Jim Quinn from University Extension. A walk around Jim’s garden (at the corner of Broadway and Anderson) will feature fruit development or success with crop, disease symptoms and insect damage, control (or lack of) of diseases, etc. Berries from Jim’s garden will be featured in Jello, with some interesting flavor and berry combinations.

The event is free; just email Booneco@missouri.edu with how many people plan to attend.

Don’t forget to register for this Thursday’s Walk and Talk workshop on garden pests at Circus Lyons garden.

In addition, there are two composting workshops coming up this week:

• The Southern Boone County Public Library in Ashland is offering a worm composting class Friday, June 21 at 2 p.m.
• The City of Columbia is offering a free composting workshop Saturday, June 22, 10 a.m.-Noon at Grindstone Nature Area.

The next Community Garden Twilight Walk and Talk is coming up on June 20, 6:30 p.m. at the Circus-Lyons Community Garden. At this session you’ll discuss pests in the garden with MU Extension specialist James Quinn. Sign up today for this free event by emailing the MU Extension Center at Booneco@missouri.edu.

Co-sponsored by MU Extension and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture. Find out more here.

• Warm Season Plants for Community Gardeners, May 18 & 19
• Learn to Help Your Garden Survive the Summer, May 15
• Go on the Edible Columbia Tour, May 19
• Food Preservation Classes

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In addition to Wednesday’s free class on making rain barrels, don’t miss this upcoming opportunity to learn about vegetable plant growth and pest issues.

Community Garden Twilight “Walk & Talk”
Thursday, May 16, 2013
6:30-7:30 p.m.
719 W. Broadway, NE corner of Broadway & Anderson, home of presenter James Quinn
To register, email your name and how many will be with you to the Boone County Extension Center at Booneco@missouri.edu.

Join other community gardeners and members of the Center for Urban Agriculture for a casual conversation with James Quinn, MU’s Regional Horticulture Specialist about raised beds, fertility, intensive gardening, warm season vegetable planting, and more.