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• Rooted in water: Home Hydroponic Basics

  • When
    2 Sep 2025
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    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Enabling Garden - 1050 1st Ave S. Altoona, IA 50009

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  Join Joe and Lindsay Leonetti as they discuss their experience with home hydroponics. 

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• 2025 Fall Gardening Workshop

  • When
    18 Sep 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    ISU Polk County Extension Office, 1625 Adventureland Dr., Suite A, Altoona, IA
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    76
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  Test your skills, ask burning questions and do some hands on learning. Come out to Altoona Extension Office for a fun, interactive event on various fall gardening tasks such as propagating coleus, how to make bulb lasagna, installing a bee lawn, and more. 

  2 hrs. CEU for Master Gardeners. This event is open to the public. 

  
  

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• 2025 - Plant Propagation Lab, IPM, & Seed Starting 101

  • When
    20 Oct 2025
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Greater DM Botanical Garden, 909 Robert D. Ray Dr, Des Moines, IA 50309
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    60

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  This event is for Master Gardeners (MGs) only. This event is required for new trainees for Fall 2025 MG Class. Up to 20 more slots for already active MGs. 

  GROUP A - Trainees_ Starts with Seed Starting 101, goes to Plant Propagation, then ends with IPM.

  GROUP B - Trainees _Starts with Plant Propagation, goes to IPM, then ends with Seed Starting 101.

  GROUP C - Active MGs _Starts with IPM, then goes to Seed Starting 101, ends with Plant Propagation

  Choose your group when you register. All groups will attend each session. The group determines where you begin and end. 

  Please remember your group assignment, when you arrive and check in we will also have the list with instructions.

  Overall lab descriptions:

  Master Gardener Trainees will have the opportunity to practice seed starting and propagation skills at the DM Botanical Gardens. This event is only open to MG Trainees. There are 3 groups so please remember your group assignment, or look on your app, when you arrive. This counts as 1 of 3 required in-person sessions. 

  Sow Seeds and transplant basil in your kitchen window this winter! You can transplant what you grow next spring. 

  Training includes Integrated Pest Management Techniques, Watering and Soils/Potting Media, Sowing Seeds including Supplemental Lighting, Transplanting, "Watering in" transplants, and Care for you transplants at home, as well as Propagation where you can learn how to propagate leaf cuttings, divisions, and more!

  
  

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• Spring Kick Off PCMG Awards and Recognition

  • When
    9 Apr 2026
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    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Polk Extension Office 1625 Adventureland Dr. Suite A
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  This evening is to celebrate all the accomplishment of 2025! There will be special awards and dinner is provided. 

  Education Session is TBD soon. This evening will include 2025 Awards and Recognition.

  Evening Agenda:

  Agenda:

  6-6:30 dinner & social time

  6:30 p.m. Speaker TBD  (earn 1 hour of education)

  7:30 p.m. Break

  7:40 Awards and Celebration. In addition to the MG Special Awards, folks with milestone MG years will be honored.

  This event is open to the public. Please bring family and friends! Master Gardeners and non-Master Gardeners are welcome. Master Gardeners receive 1 credit CEU for attending. 

  UPDATE: The Program Committee will be supplying the main course- chicken, hamburgers and the vegetable dishes for this event, as well as coffee and water.  Please plan to bring your favorite dessert to share for this event.  

  Let's keep it green, please bring your own reusable water bottle. 

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