Winter gardening series continues

MILFORD — The Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Pike County are planning two more winter workshops at the Pike County Library in Milford:

Mushroom Cultivation — Feb. 27 at the Pike County Library, 119 East Harford St., Milford

No-till Gardening — March 26
Enrich Your Life through Gardening — April 9 at the Whispering Pines Banquet Hall, Country Club of the Poconos, in East Stroudsburg. , a joint spring workshop “” put together by the Pike County and Monroe County Master Gardeners, will be held

For more information or to register, contact the Pike County Extension Office at 514 Broad St., Milford; by phone 570-296-3400; or email PikeExt@psu.edu.

Twenty-five happy people left with their own mini greenhouse after "Banish Winter Blues with a Garden in the Snow," the extension's first gardening workshop held at the library on Jan. 30. Guest speaker Dena Salmon demonstrated planting seeds in recycled plastic food containers and placing them outdoors in winter to germinate. When spring comes, these hardy plants can be transplanted directly into garden soil or into containers.

Salmon showed attendees her own garden photos of the entire process. Beautiful vegetables and flowers like tomatoes, eggplant and cosmos thrive outdoors during harsh winter conditions.

For more information on winter sowing, call the extension office. It's not too late to start now.