On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:28:21 GMT, Lynda LeCompte
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:25:30 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 04:10:19 GMT, Lynda LeCompte
wrote:

In response to one of my posts about my recently acquired garden,
someone posted that an agricultural organisation would send someone out,
usually a volunteer master gardener, to help with identification of
plants. I thought this was an excellent idea, but didn't think to ask
how to go about this.

You might start looking he

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/mastergd/

hehe - yes, thanks.
Spooky actually, as I found this site this morning before I took my son to
school and was going to post about it when I got back... but ya beat me to
it :-)

When I was first searching, I made the mistake of using 'agriculture'
instead of 'horticulture' in the search strings. Duh!


^_^ I used "master gardener" and as it happened, there were
references on the first page to Texas.

The usual response is "call your local extension agent/office," which
is rather cryptic sometimes. Many (most? all?) state universities have
a public service operation that is a coordinating information resource
for local agricultural, horticultural, home (cleaning, canning),
social, and other topics. They vary in usefulness. I discovered,
looking for some specific info on the web, that many are ready to
supply the same 1950s pamphlets that must have been distributed in the
millions. However...they *do* generally coordinate Master Gardener
programs, handle things like soil-sampling, and *may* have a genuine
expert on local conditions.