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