Valley Grows Calendar

DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC

Mondays & Thursdays, 9am-noon through Oct.: Bring your sick plant or its bug to the OSU extension office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield, for identification.

Call: 330-533-5538

Info: go.osu.edu/IDmyplantsandbugs

BREAKFAST BOTANY

Friday, 8:30–10 a.m.: Start your morning with a garden walk. Return to the Garden Cafe to enjoy a light breakfast and learn more.

Call: Fellows Riverside Gardens to register, 330-740-7116

Fee: $9 ($7 FFRG member)

Info: www.millcreekmetroparks.org

Frog Walk

Friday, 9 p.m.: During spring, birdsong fills daytime air, frogsong fills nighttime. If conditions are right, we should hear and see frogs as we explore one of the “froggiest” places in Mill Creek MetroParks. Flashlights allowed, boots recommended.

Where: Meet at Vickers Nature Preserve, U.S. Route 224, Ellsworth.

Info: www.millcreekmetroparks.org

Floribunda Sunday

Sunday, 2 p.m.: Spring woodland wildflowers bloom before trees leaf and shut out the sunshine. A premier wildflower site in the area, the 250-acre wet woodland of Poland Municipal Forest (Poland Woods) features profusion of bluebells and other short-blooming beauties.

Where: Meet at Poland Woods entrance

Info: www.millcreekmetroparks.org

Plant Sale

May 4 & 11, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.: Friends of the Greenhouse Consortium Plant Sale

Where: Packard Park Greenhouse, Mahoning Avenue, Warren

What: Heirloom tomatoes, peppers, herbs, geraniums, assorted annuals.

Local Flavor

May 13, 6 p.m.: Learn to Grow!

Where: Iron Roots Farm, 820 Canfield Road, Youngstown.

What: First in weekly series at Youngstown Community Gardens to learn to grow vegetables.

Pruning Walk

May 16, 6 p.m.: Landscape Pruning Walk-About

Where: OSU extension office.

Fee: $20; includes pruners.

Details: go.osu.edu/learntoprune

Compost Seminar

May 18, 1 p.m.

Where: Goshen Twp. Administration Building, 14003 S. Range Road, Salem.

Fee: $10 for Mahoning County residents; $40, nonresidents.

Info: The Green Team, 330-740-2060