Master Gardner classes offered

Master

Gardener classes offered

If you enjoy plants and enjoy being around people, then you might want

to consider becoming a Master Gardener.

Master Gardener classes will be offered at the Clayton County Commissioners

Conference Center in Jonesboro Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30-5 p.m., Jan.

8 through March 21.

An $80 fee is charged for notebook and other supplies, and 50 hours of

volunteer service to the Extension Service is required. You must be a

resident of Fayette County to enroll. Topics to be covered include landscape

design, annuals and perennials, trees, ornamental shrubs, fruit and vegetable

gardening, pest identification and control, plant physiology, entomology

and pathology, lawn care and more.

For information on the Master Gardener program or for an application,

visit or call the Fayette County Extension Office at 140 Stonewall Ave.,

Suite 209, Fayetteville or 770-460-5730 ext. 5412. Deadline for applications

is Friday, Oct. 27.