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NF Field Day Focuses on Lawn Care, Gardening |
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News release
issued May 25, 2001, effective immediately. Note:
This event occurred in 2001. Please see our news releases
section for upcoming events. NF Field Day Focuses on Lawn Care, Gardening ARDMORE, Okla. — Oklahoma's disparate weather patterns, as well as far-ranging soil types and unpredictable growing seasons, make for interesting and sometimes complicated problems for area gardeners and lawn managers. To help answer questions and solve some problems unique to Southern Oklahoma growers, specialists with the Noble Foundation and the Oklahoma State University Extension Service are teaming up to again offer the annual Horticulture Field Day, slated for Saturday morning, June 2, at the Noble Foundation's Horticulture Center. A number of speakers will address various topics, including methods to solve problems and new techniques for better growth and harvest, during the free half-day presentation. Program co-coordinator Steve Upson, NF horticulturist, said the program format this year was designed to provide more time for specialists to speak, less time in participants walking to various presentation sites, and plenty of time to ask questions about whichever areas the participant is most interested in. Presentation topics include growing "cut" flowers, fertilization and composting, residential fire ant control, drip irrigation techniques, managing small orchards, lawn and garden pest control, turfgrass selection and management, and latest developments in hoop house and raised bed gardening practices. The program begins at 8:50 a.m. with a welcome from members of the NF Ag Management Group. Simultaneous presentations begin at 9. All participants will be able to hear all speakers, then can spend an hour re-visiting the presenters of topics they are especially interested in to ask questions and better view displays. As in past NF field days, there will be lots of free materials for the taking. The program ends at noon. Visitors participating in the field day should park in the Southern Oklahoma Technology Center parking lot (2610 Sam Noble Pkwy., east of Ardmore, and directly east of the Noble Foundation). Shuttle buses will be running throughout the morning from the parking area to the registration/presentation site. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Speakers include Mike Schnelle, an ornamental floriculture specialist with the Oklahoma State University Extension Service in Stillwater; Al Sutherland, an area horticulture agent with the OSU Extension Service; and Leland McDaniel, Carter County Extension agent, all new speakers at the field day this year. Returning with popular presentations are Wes Lee, Murray County Extension; Dave Gerken, OSU/Oklahoma City Horticulture Department instructor; Scott Landgraf, NF pecan and irrigation specialist; Dooly Barlow, NF horticulturist and program co-coordinator; and Upson. To learn more about the NF Horticulture Field Day, call the foundation at (580) 223-5810. ### The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a non-profit organization conducting agricultural, forage biotechnological, and plant biology research; providing grants to numerous non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs. To learn more, check out the Noble Foundation Web site at http://www.noble.org. More news releases available at www.noble.org/Press_Release |
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