Master Gardener Training Materials

Master Gardener Training Class information and materials.

Week 1

Study Materials

• FYN
• Sense of Place
• Plant & Soil Relations
• Watering Efficiently
• Jeopardy (game)
• Web sites

  Sense of Place & Environmentally Friendly Landscape (FYN)

  Your Florida Landscape (1-18)

   http://fyn.ifas.ufl.edu/

   http://floridayards.org/landscape/quiz/ (take quiz)

   http://www.floridayards.org/

   

  Soils:

  Your Florida Landscape (89-91)

   http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_mg_soil_and_fertilizers

   http://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/extension/

   http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Soil_Testing

   

  Water:

   Your Florida Landscape (13-18)

    Rain Barrels - A Homeowner's Guide

    http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG217

    http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/environment/water_resources.html

    http://livinggreen.ifas.ufl.edu/water/water_conservation.html

    http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_landscapes_and_water_conservation

    http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/wwe.htm

Week 2

Study Materials

• Taxonomy
• Botany
• Plant Growth
• How Plants Grow in the Urban Environment
• Growing a Healthy Landscape
• Web sites

  Plant Identification:

  Botany Handbook http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG012

  Plant Identification and Information Service http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SR013

  Scientific Nomenclature: What's in a Name? http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN661

  DDIS Web site  http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu

                              U: master    P: gardener 

  Leaf Terminology

   

  Plant Growth and Development:

  How Trees Grow in the Urban Environment http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FR002

  http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/botany/physiology.html

  http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/botany/growth.html

   

  Ornamentals (trees, shrubs, groundcovers):

  Your Florida Landscape (19-24, 29-60) (77-88) (113-126)

  Landscape Plants for the Gulf and South Atlantic Coasts (1-59)

  http://hort.ufl.edu/woody

  http://livinggreen.ifas.ufl.edu/landscaping/xeriscaping.html

  Basic Principles of Landscape Design http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG086

Week 3

Study Materials

• Ten most popular tropical fruits
• Tropical Fruit Tree Problems

Tropical Fruits: Dr. Jonathan Crane, Jay Osborne

http://fruitscapes.ifas.ufl.edu/

    Avocado, Bananas, Mango

Plant Pathology: Dr. Aaron Palmateer

Your Florida Landscape (163-174)

Ornamental Turf Pest & Management (47-70, 157-196)

Commercial Ornamental Nursery Scouting Manual (21-31, 67-69, 79-104)

• Web sites

Collecting & submitting turf samples for disease identification                                http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/LH/LH04100.pdf

Plant Disease Diagnostic Form http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SR007

http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/clinic/index.shtml

http://erec.ifas.ufl.edu/Program/Extensi/extpklp.htm

http://plantpath.ifas.ufl.edu/takextpub/FactSheets/pppfactsheet.htm

Week 4

Study Materials

Vegetable Gardening

• Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide
• Gardening in the Keys
• Garden Journal
• Insects in Vegetable Gardens
• Squash Diseases

Palms

• AFEC Palm Special Fertilizer Fact Sheet
• Palm Anatomy & the Environment
• Salt Tolerant Palms for the Florida Keys
• Palm Problems

Ft. Lauderdale REC Palms  http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/palm_prod/palm_production.shtml

Turfgrass

• Turf

Turfgrass  http://yourfloridalawn.ifas.ufl.edu

Nematodes

• Nematodes

Nematodes Assay Laboratory  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SR011

Week 5

Study Materials

Nutrition, Fertilization, Composting, Entomology, IPM

Plant Nutrition & Fertilizers:  Your Florida Landscape (91-112)

• Fertilizer Fundamentals by Amy Shober
• Landscape Fertilizers
• N-P-K Fertilizer Sources

Composting: Your Florida Landscape (24-27)

• Compost Happens
• How to Compost in the Florida Keys
• Worms Eat My Garbage

Entomology: http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/publicat.html

                                  http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu

• Indoor Pests and Occasional Invaders
• Insect ID and Management for South Florida Master Gardeners
• Methods for Monitoring and Diagnosing Insects

Helpful, Harmful or Harmless (Deck)

Your Florida Landscape (133-153)

Ornamental Turf Pest Management (71-83), 196-210)

Commercial Ornamental Nursery Scouting Manual (32-43, 56-59, 79-104)

Week 6

Study Materials

    Managing Insects

Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Management (85-96, 2-233)

Your Florida Landscape (79-85)

Ornamental Insects:

• Aphids on Landscape Plants
• Avocado Lace Bug
• Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
• Insect Borers of Trees and Shrubs
• Insect Galls
• Leafminers on Ornamental Plants
• Mites on Ornamental Plants
• Scale Insects and Mealybugs on Ornamental Plants
• Scale Insect Identification Guide
• Stinging and Venomous Caterpillars
• Thrips on Ornamental Plants
• Whiteflies on Landscape Ornamentals

Turf Insects:

• Fall Armyworm
• Ground Pearls
• Hunting Billbug
• Lawn Caterpillars
• Pest Mole Cricket Management
• Southern Chinch Bug
• Twolined Spittlebugs
• White Grub Biology and Management

Weeds

Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Management (99-119, 237-258)

Managing Ornamental Plant and Turfgrass Disease and Non-pest Problems: Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Management (59-67, 75-93)

• Managing Weeds Around Turn and Ornamentals
• Ornamental and Turf Weeds

Pesticide Management Education

• Master Gardener Pesticide Management
• Pathway of Pesticide Loss
• Pest Management Exam

Managing Diseases

• Greening and Canker Training for Master Gardeners
• Managing Diseases and Disorders in Ornamentals

Turf Diseases:

• Anthracnose
• Brown Patch
• Dollar Spot
• Fairy Rings
• Gray Leaf Spot
• Helminthosporium Leaf Spot
• Homeowner's Guide to Fungicides for Lawn and Landscape Disease Management
• Pythium Root Rot
• Take-all Root Rot
• Turfgrass Diseases
• Turf Rust

Web sites

IPM http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu

Natural Enemies and Biological Control http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN120

Natural Products for Insect Pest Management http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN197

Week 7

Study Materials

    Native Plants, Invasive Plants, Iguanas, Africanized Honey Bees

• Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida
• Native Plants in the Florida Keys
• Healing the Pain of Pest Plants
• Dealing with Iguanas in the South Florida Landscape
• Iguanas in Florida
• Living with Africanized Honey Bees

    Web sites

Native Plants

Natives for Your Neighborhood

Invasive Exotics - http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/environment/invasive_species.html

        http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/assessment

Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas

Florida Keys Invasive Task Force

DPI Pest Alert

Africanized Honey Bees

New Pests

Week 8

Study Materials

• Greening and Canker Training for MGs
• How to Solve Ornamental & Turf Problems
• Pesticide Safety & Labeling
• Dr. Aaron Palmateer's PowerPoint on Plant Pathology

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