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May 2025 Pulaski County Home Horticulture Newsletter
Please remember to REGISTER for the programs you’d like to attend by scanning the QR codes or clicking on the graphic.
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***PULASKI CO EXTENSION SERVICE OFFICE NEW ADDRESS IS
90 UK EXTENSION BLVD, SOMERSET KY, 42503
OR
BEHIND FARM CREDIT OFF THE 914 BYPASS***
May 7 — 365 Days of Gardening: Wait! It’s Too Early To Plant, 5:30pm, Pulaski Co Extension office
May 17 — Lake Cumberland Beekeepers Association Field Day, 9am, Pulaski Co Extension office.
May 19 — Lake Cumberland Beekeepers Association meeting, 6:30pm, Pulaski Co Extension office.
May 20 — Open House for the NEW Pulaski Co Extension office, 3-6pm, 90 UK Extension Blvd (on 914 bypass behind Farm Credit). We’ll have tours & snacks.
May 28 — Air Plants, 5pm, Pulaski Co Extension office. $5 SORRY CANCELLED
May 29 — Living with Alpha-gal Syndrome (webinar)
June 10 — Elderberry Production, 6:30pm, Madison Co Extension office.
S A V E T H E D A T E S:
October 24-25 — Beginner Bee School (in-person)
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We should be transitioned to the new office by May 19.
We hope you’ll attend our open house or just drop by and see the new facility.
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Horticulture Webinar Wednesday is BACK!
May 7 — Summer Veggies
May 14 — How to Net Fruit Crops
May 21 — Passalong Plants
May 28 — Hosting a Seed Swap
Register here
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Master Gardeners and I want to thank you, the community, and our partners for making the Native & Heirloom Plant Fest a huge success!
Around 300 people attended and got to visit heirloom seed and native plant vendors, learn about different aspects of native and heirloom plants, plus got a glimpse of the new Extension facility.
Master Gardeners were also at the Earth Day event at Somerset Community College. It was a great event as well!
Master Gardeners will be starting work in mid-May on the new demo beds at the new Extension office.
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May Best Days
Killing signs rule on May 22-23 and May 30-31. DO NOT PLANT DURING KILLING SIGNS.
Best days for planting above ground crops are May 10-12 and May 28-29.
Best days to plant below ground crops are May 13-21 & May 24-25.
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Best days for specifically beans and peas are May 26 & 27.
Best days to plant flowers are May 5-9. This means don’t plant any veggies during this time.
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| Transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and any other warm-season vegetable can be planted outside in May. You can make another planting of potatoes and onions as well. |
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| Mosquitoes…ugh. To reduce breeding sites, UK recommends disposing of anything that can hold water (tires, buckets, plastics, etc), cleaning debris from gutters, and changing water in bird baths. Use Bt mosquito dunks to kill larvae. More info here. |
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| DO NOT CUT BACK foliage of bulbs (daffodils, tulips, crocus, hyacinths, etc) until they naturally wither & die. Plant other plants to hide the dying foliage. |
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| Add a fun new plant to your garden. Or grow a new vegetable. I’m growing toothache plant, cumin, peanuts, and cotton this year. The rules are ‘there are no rules!’ Just have fun. |
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| Sow seeds of beans, melons, squash, cucumbers, sweet corn, okra, heat-tolerant lettuce, and carrots in May outside. These can be planted successively every two weeks. |
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| The mowers will start up this month. Be sure to cut your tall fescue high (3.5 to 4”) — this will discourage crabgrass seedlings. And sharpen the blade!! |
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| Spring-blooming shrubs should be pruned after they finish blooming. Some of these include forsythia, lilac, flowering quince, magnolias, and witch hazels. |
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It’s Always a Good Time to Soil Test
Soil quality determines your success as a gardener. Pulaski County residents get 25 soil analyses for FREE. Soil probes are also available to loan out. Call our office for more details 606-679-6361
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Pine Straw Available
Lake Cumberland Master Gardeners have a new load of pine straw! It is now available in the barn at the new Pulaski Co Extension office at 90 UK Extension Blvd, Somerset KY 42503.
Master Gardeners will be selling pine straw on Fridays from 8am to noon through the month of May.
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Recipe of the Month
Use that fresh spinach!
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Non-Discrimination Policy
The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment is an Equal Opportunity Organization with respect to education and employment and authorization to provide research, education information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function without regard to economic or social status and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Reasonable accommodation of disability may be available with prior notice. Program information may be made available in languages other than English.
Inquiries regarding compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and other related matter should be directed to
Equal Opportunity Office, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Room S-105, Agriculture Science Building, North Lexington, Kentucky 40546,
the UK Office of Institutional Equity and Equal Opportunity, 13 Main Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0032 or
US Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410
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