Get Ready For Next Year's Garden With Stafford Library

STAFFORD, NJ — It's never too early to start planning your garden for next year - in fact, autumn is the perfect time to plan, purchase, and plant the bulbs for spring.

Learn all about it from Rutgers Master Gardener of Ocean County Deborah McCabe at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 14 in the Ocean County Library Stafford Branch.

McCabe will explain design, layout, and bulb choices; offer recommendations for planting, growing, and maintenance, and will demonstrate container bulb planting.

A five-year member of the Master Gardeners of Ocean County, McCabe chairs the Master Gardeners Stafford Library Outreach and also volunteers at the township's Mill Creek Community Garden. She traces her interest in gardening to her father, who planted, planted, planted – initially as a farmer, and later as a grounds caretaker.

Rutgers Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who present horticulture programs developed by the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension.

Need more garden tips? Bring your questions and plant or insect samples to Master Gardeners for diagnosis and recommendations in the OCL Stafford Branch, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month, through September.

Register at www.theoceancountylibrary.org/events for this free program. For more information, visit the OCL Stafford Branch, 129 North Main Street, Manahawkin, or call (609) 597-3381.