Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Snyder and Union Counties

04/13/2026

Local expert to be featured at the library next Monday.

Learn how to design and maintain beautiful container gardens with Keith Phelps, an experienced gardener with more than 18 years of experience. Keith will share practical tips,...

04/13/2026

Local expert as seen on WNEP to give talk this Monday at the library!

Sure To Be A Wow Factor In Your Garden

03/08/2026

Spring is on it's way!

11/19/2025

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11/02/2025

Fall Garden tips

This article answers questions many gardeners have about how to prepare their garden for winter.

08/25/2025

Check out our 3 Demo Gardens at the Union County Community Garden! Great job to this year's trainees.

07/28/2025

Hot 🔥 summer day for our garden harvest party complete with rainbow 🌈 fruit board! Chocolate squash chocolate chip cupcakes and veggie bugs made from our garden harvest squash and peppers! We dressed our scarecrow in all new overalls and fresh shirt today to look over our garden ! We also revealed this years mystery plant after 8 weeks of garden observations, guesses and thorough investigations...drumroll...Peanuts!! Our peanuts are flowering now ...keep eye out for peanuts on your next visit to garden! Another great year of learning in our garden at library together ❤️ 15 years and counting for this wonderful Penn state Master gardeners and our partners union county library programming! FREE to all in our community! Thanks to all the moms and dads and grandparents who support their kids every week and bring them rain, shine, hot and humid!! We appreciate yall! Shout out to our Ms pat recovering and doing well !

07/21/2025

Finally a nice summer day 🌻.not scorching hot in our garden for our time together!! We all got to harvest some of our wacky rainbow colored harvest twisting our green tipped squash off the vine, plucking beautiful purple basil and some long twisty yellow banana peppers...ps...that don't taste like bananas ..but still sweet! We had some tasters of our bounty right out of the garden..taking bites of peppers and squash and some eggplant too! We loved fairy watermelons ! Those little cucamelon vines we planted that look just like a fairy sized watermelons and taste like yummy cucumber easy to eat right out of the garden! We used more bounty from all our garden petals today to make our sweet garden necklaces today too! Inspired by master gardeners trip to the philadelphia flower show and our craft experience there! we all found and cut petals from our garden to make sweet garden necklaces! Such a fun garden craft to talk about pollinators and all the garden diversity and beauty in our garden! Im wearing mine all day to share our garden too! Next week is our last session for this summer and our harvest party fun and scarecrow fun!
Some more information on some of the vegetables we have in our garden too..

https://fayette.psu.edu/one-garden/whats-planted

https://extension.psu.edu/unusual-vegetables-for-the-home-garden/

07/14/2025

Its Monday! Kids in Garden time ! We had another hot day in our garden this morning but still great turnout for exploring and learning in the garden! Today was our Spotted Lanternfly education day and right on cue they showed up ! july nymphs hopping out to make themselves known right onto our little gardeners who learned how to do the lanternfly stomp! If they could catch the little guys? ....so hard to catch these jumping nymphs stage of SLF life cycle! We learned the best way to control them is before they emerge from their eggs ! We learned to look on trees, patio furniture , garage equipment, wood piles, playground equipment and when to find eggs and practiced scraping eggs from trees using our pretend playdoh version! Looks a lot like the real thing ! Bug troubles found our squash plants too ! Look for these squash bugs and eggs in your own gardens too!

https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-what-to-look-for

https://extension.psu.edu/squash-bug

07/10/2025

Kids In the garden this week had fun making garden paint brushes using plant parts from our pollinator garden and painting our gardens ! Garden is full of color and pollinators living their best summer life!!! Great care from all the little gardeners every week! We love to have fun and grow lifetime gardeners !! 🦋 🐝 🍉🌶🍄🫜🫛🥦🌱🍓
https://extension.psu.edu/growing-gardeners-summertime-garden-fun/