Digging For Answers

Hey there, The Master Gardeners of Susquehanna just wrapped up their biggest SPRING CLINIC every! It was a sell out event with some GREAT speakers. This episode of the podcast is going out to both "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS", and the Susquehanna County Library "OFF THE SHELF" podcasts. We have interviews of people that attended the Spring Clinic and a list of upcoming community events in the Montrose area. Starting in our next episode, we will go back to an individual format for the two podcasts.

There is a lot going on in the area this spring, so here is a way to listen to those that attended Spring Clinic, and find out what's going on in the next few months!

Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe and don't be nervous about sending us comment!

Howard

Welcome back to "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS"! This is our first PSUE Susquehanna County Master Gardener podcast in 2024!

This podcast is focused on the recent Susquehanna AG Day. We had a table at the event and interviewed people on why they came to the event and a few other questions. At the end, I left in a short "hot mic" recording from when we were talking to a group of youth, and I forgot the mic was still recording!

So............ It's a shorter episode, but you can hear some great comments about AG Day. We will be doing this at some other community events and will have a drawing for some nice prizes if you record with us at the event!

This Saturday, we will be recording at the annual Spring Clinic, held in Montrose. We have a full house signed up and we will be talking to people that attend the event and hope to have audio for our next podcast on the speakers!

We will be back at least once a month sharing answers to our hot line questions, discussions on things that "grow" (or are not growing!) We have some bus trips coming up that you might want to join us on, like Longwood Gardens on 20 June 2024.

SUBSCRIBE so you get future downloads automatically!

Be talking to you soon!

Howard

The 165'th Annual Harford Fair is over! I had a wonderful time at the fairground last week, manning a table on Thursday in the Penn State Susquehanna County Master Gardener's building. I was representing both the Master Gardeners and the Susquehanna County Library. I have not heard the final head count yet on how many people visited us, but I'm going to guess it had to be close to 1,000 people.

I was at the table with a microphone in hand to talk to people about a couple of areas. I'm going to replay their conversations in this episode. Everyone that spoke to me has been entered into a special drawing for an Amazon echo dot device and some $25.00 gift cards.

This episode is going out on both the "Digging for Answers" podcast and the "Off the Shelf" podcast, since it is a great community event!

Be sure to subscribe so that you will get notice of all of our future releases!

Have a GREAT week, a safe/fun Labor Day weekend, we will talk to you again in September!

Howard

It's FAIR WEEK! This special episode is focused on the 2023, 165'th Annual HARFORD FAIR, in Harford PA. Here from Penn State, Susquehanna County Master Gardener Anson on what the Master Gardeners are sharing at the fair this year. The event runs 14-19 August, the booth is open 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. each day of the fair. Come talk to us, bring your questions and get some information that will help your garden/trees/flowers/yard.

If you didn't listen to last year's fair podcast from Anson, you should find it, download it, and listen about the history of county fairs!

Howard will be there on Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. with the podcast microphone to capture your comments for a future podcast. If you talk to him, you can get the drawing for an Amazon Echo Dot device or a gift card!

Hope to see you at the fair on Thursday!

Howard

I don't know what you were doing on Friday and Saturday, 4-5 August, but myself and over 1,000 others were at the 44'th annual Montrose Blueberry Festival! Listen in to hear about the event and WHY people were attending the event! The Susquehanna Master Gardeners had their Education Garden open and Master Gardeners ready at their information table to answer your questions!

Thank you to all that were involved with the event!

Be sure to see us the week of 14-19 August at the Harford Fair at the Master Gardener Shack! Come on Thursday to talk to Howard and be in our special Fair Podcast!

Welcome to "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS", a podcast partnership with the Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association, and the Master Gardeners in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania.

Normally we address your garden, fruit tree, or yard questions.  We update you on things like the Spotted Lantern Fly or have topics that are garden related.

This 2023 kickoff episode is a little different.  We are going to hear about Farm and Home Day 2023. Eight organizations that were at the event are going to give us a brief "Who are we, what do we do, and what can we do for you!"

We will be back in a few weeks with more of our traditional format, including, questions that we get on the county hot line. The next two episodes will be an audio version of a presentation that was done last month at the Montrose Library on "Preparing for your 2023 Garden". It will cover the planning, setting up, maintaining, harvesting and finally cleaning up in the fall. Be sure to join us for a review or if you are new to gardening, a plan for you to have a GREAT 2023 Garden!

We hope to hear some feedback from you!   You can email us at: info@susqcolibrary.org.  

I promise that our next episode will have one of our gardening jokes from ALEXA!

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS.  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,  The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to share five chapters starting today with Chapter #1 and the remaining releasing before Christmas. about every 3-4 days. Each episode is resented by five different readers. Our readers are all members of our local community that have an important connection to the library.  You may know who they are by listening to them, but we are not going to tell you who they are till the end of their chapter.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you will get a download when each segment is released.  Thank you for all your support in 2022 and we look forward to supporting  you in 2023.  Be SAFE and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Talk to you in 2023! Howard

Heads Up!  We will modify our OFF THE SHELF podcast format starting in January 2023.  The focus will be more on what's NEW at the library with programs and events, a brief reminder of the on-going programs and then a quick report out on the top FIVE checked out authors from the prior month.

As Christmas Eve approaches, we wish to share this reading of a poem that was written in 1823 by Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas.  It's a short piece, but one of the most well known writings about Saint Nick.

Our reader of this wonderful poem is Susquehanna County Commissioner Allen Hall.  Commissioner Hall was kind enough to have recorded this with us in 2019, and we replayed it last year in 2021 and are happy to bring it to you again this year in 2022.

We are also releasing this special episode for the first time on our other podcast, "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS", a partnership between our Association and the Susquehanna County Master Gardeners.

And as Saint Nick says at the end of the poem......

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS.  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,  The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to share five chapters starting today with Chapter #1 and the remaining releasing before Christmas. about every 3-4 days. Each episode is resented by five different readers. Our readers are all members of our local community that have an important connection to the library.  You may know who they are by listening to them, but we are not going to tell you who they are till the end of their chapter.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you will get a download when each segment is released.  Thank you for all your support in 2022 and we look forward to supporting  you in 2023.  Be SAFE and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Talk to you in 2023! Howard

Heads Up!  We will modify our OFF THE SHELF podcast format starting in January 2023.  The focus will be more on what's NEW at the library with programs and events, a brief reminder of the on-going programs and then a quick report out on the top FIVE checked out authors from the prior month.

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS.  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,  The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to share five chapters starting today with Chapter #1 and the remaining releasing before Christmas. about every 3-4 days. Each episode is resented by five different readers. Our readers are all members of our local community that have an important connection to the library.  You may know who they are by listening to them, but we are not going to tell you who they are till the end of their chapter.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you will get a download when each segment is released.  Thank you for all your support in 2022 and we look forward to supporting  you in 2023.  Be SAFE and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Talk to you in 2023! Howard

Heads Up!  We will modify our OFF THE SHELF podcast format starting in January 2023.  The focus will be more on what's NEW at the library with programs and events, a brief reminder of the on-going programs and then a quick report out on the top FIVE checked out authors from the prior month.

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS.  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,  The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to share five chapters starting today with Chapter #1 and the remaining releasing before Christmas. about every 3-4 days. Each episode is resented by five different readers. Our readers are all members of our local community that have an important connection to the library.  You may know who they are by listening to them, but we are not going to tell you who they are till the end of their chapter.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you will get a download when each segment is released.  Thank you for all your support in 2022 and we look forward to supporting  you in 2023.  Be SAFE and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Talk to you in 2023! Howard

Heads Up!  We will modify our OFF THE SHELF podcast format starting in January 2023.  The focus will be more on what's NEW at the library with programs and events, a brief reminder of the on-going programs and then a quick report out on the top FIVE checked out authors from the prior month.

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS.  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,  The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to share five chapters starting today with Chapter #1 and the remaining releasing before Christmas. about every 3-4 days. Each episode is resented by five different readers. Our readers are all members of our local community that have an important connection to the library.  You may know who they are by listening to them, but we are not going to tell you who they are till the end of their chapter.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you will get a download when each segment is released.  Thank you for all your support in 2022 and we look forward to supporting  you in 2023.  Be SAFE and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Talk to you in 2023! Howard

Heads Up!  We will modify our OFF THE SHELF podcast format starting in January 2023.  The focus will be more on what's NEW at the library with programs and events, a brief reminder of the on-going programs and then a quick report out on the top FIVE checked out authors from the prior month.

This is a special BONUS episode that will be posted both on our "OFF THE SHELF" podcast, and the "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS" podcast.  Thanksgiving is in just a few days and there is a lot going on in the Susquehanna County area and audiences of both podcasts would hopefully find some information in the contents of this episode.

We ae going to cover three items:

* The 2022 Pottery and Art Sale will be on Wednesday 23 November, Friday 25 November and Saturday 26 November, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. each day.  at the VFW (Route 706, Montrose).

Stop by to browse and purchase beautiful art from local artisans!  The sale is a great opportunity to purchase gifts for family and friends!  A portion of the proceeds benefit the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association.

*An interview with Jim Kessler, of Kessler's Tree Farm in Hallstead.  Our interview with Jim will cover the history of the farm, how to buy a Christmas tree, how to care for it and what to do with it in January 2023!

*A brief description of Christmas in Montrose!  https://christmasinmontrose.com/  This annual event will be  on 2,3,4 December!  Check out their web site for the MANY events going on in Montrose!

From all of here at the Association and with the County Master Gardeners, we wish you all a Wonderful Thanksgiving and entry into the holiday season!

A special BONUS episode, containing a locally written Halloween story that has some information that you might find interesting about SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY INVADERS!  

Feel free to leave an audio message on the Anchor.fm site for the podcast or stop into the Montrose main Library, you might get some Halloween candy!

Spring is running at full steam right now.  Here are a couple of important updates about upcoming events!  Hope you see you at some of them!  Don't forget, plant sale orders are due on 29 April!

Winter is winding down, and the time to get busy in your garden is ramping up!  So... we have a BONUS episode of our podcast out this month.  This special edition includes:

* The flower of the month for Feb - The Violet

* Another section of Ruth Wilmarth's book, "Tending Your Garden - A collection of Gardening Articles"

* A segment about the upcoming Master Gardener Plant Sale!  What you need to know, what you need to do!  Hurry and get your order in before the cut off day.  Pick up day will be Saturday, May 7'th at the Extension Office!

Of course, we end with a great gardening joke from my assistant, ALEXA!  

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you will get future episodes automatically!

Till next time....... Howard

Happy 2022 and our return for our 3'rd season of Digging for Answers!

This is our 7'th full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association.

This episode features three segments from three guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

This month we will highlight three presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We have made some slight changes to our format.  We will be talking each episode about a local Montrose PA business that has a connection to the library and people in our community.  If you visit them, please let them know that you heard about them in this podcast!  We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!

Hope you are busy planning your planting for this season and will contact us with any questions you have!

Hi there,

This is our 6'th full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association.

This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

This month we will highlight three presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!  

Have a GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON!

Hi there,

This is our 5'th full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association.

This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

This month we will highlight three presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!  Don't forget your sun screen if you are out working in your garden!

PS.....Listen in the episode so you will know how YOU might win an AMAZON Echo Dot device!  

Hi there,

This is our 4'th full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association.

This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

This month we will highlight three presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!  Don't forget your sun screen if you are out working in your garden!

With COVID this last year, one of our biggest fund raisers did not happen.  As we approach our summer season, which included the auction, we thought, "Can't we do an on-line auction?"  OF COURSE WE CAN!  So, this is a short test to auction off six wonderful gift baskets over a week long period, running Wednesday 23 June till noon on Wednesday 30 June.  It is your chance, regardless where you listen to this podcast and live, to see what is in the baskets, and then place a bid on one or more of the baskets.

This podcast will describe what is in the six baskets and what the process is for you to register as a bidder and place your bid(s).  Since this is a test, you can only win one basket per bid ID, so keep that in mind.  We would use the time stamp of the last winning bid to determine which basket that you would win, IF, you happen to have the highest bid on more than one basket.

Four of the six baskets include $18.00 worth of PA Scratcher Lottery tickets, so you might win a HUGE amount of $$$$$.

NOTE: We are releasing this podcast on 9 June, you can request a BIDDER ID (expect a response within 24 hours) and you can place a bid before the 23'rd of June, but don't expect a response till the 23'rd.

A BIG THANK YOU, to the staff, Board members and other individuals and companies that donated the basket contents.

Thank you in advance for your support of this fundraiser!

If you have any questions, please contact the library at any of our four locations.

BEST OF LUCK to you in the bidding and in scratching off those lottery tickets!

Hi there,

If you enjoy listening to our podcasts, "Digging for Answers" and/or "Off the Shelf", here is your chance to help us to, SPREAD THE WORD about them to others and have a chance of winning a DUNKIN' gift card!

Our goal is to increase our listeners by at least 20%, which means we need at least 138 additional downloads.

Thank you for sharing with others.  We hope you are subscribed and enjoying each episode.

Howard

Hi there,

  This is our third full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association.

  This episode features guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County.  Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

 Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

 This month we will highlight two presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!  Don't forget to get a copy of the Spring Plant Sale Catalog and get your order in soon!

Hi there,

This is our second full episode of Digging for Answers. This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association.  This episode features guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County.  Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line and other sources to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with relevant researched based answers or gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many gardening books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

This month we will highlight two recent HOTLINE questions and have two presentations from PSE Master Gardeners. We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!

Hi there,

This is our first full episode of Digging for Answers. This is presented by the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association and features the PSE Master Gardeners.  Our goal each month is to respond to gardening questions from various sources or from the PSE Master Gardener Hot Line. We wish to educate and inform those that have an interest in gardening with researched based answers and relevant gardening/environmental topics.  We hope that you enjoy and subscribe to this podcast.  Please provide us with feedback so we can make sure we are providing you with information that you find useful!

Be sure to check out the many books in the library and the Library Used Bookstore, located at the Montrose PA main library site.

We hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season and that you find value in the information that we are providing.  We look forward to your gardening questions, so we can go DIGGING FOR ANSWERS next month!

The Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association are listening to YOUR gardening questions! Please join us for a new, monthly podcast “Digging for Answers”, where we will take selected questions that have been submitted from various sources and especially from the PSE Master Gardener HOTLINE and give you the researched, science based answers that have been dug up!

We will also be covering seasonal topics, presented by different guest speakers. We will add in the resources to assist you that are available in the Susquehanna County Free Library locations.  Be sure to SUBSCRIBE, so you get each episode.