Master Gardener Lectures

Following are the Master Gardener lectures for the Fall 2009 class. All of the lectures have been converted to PDF files to reduce hard drive and server space, and to reduce download time (even still, some of these are going to be massive). You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to open these files...download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.

The lectures that have been uploaded and are available for viewing will be highlighted in blue; anything not uploaded yet will remain black. Click the blue text (links) to go to the lecture.

I would strongly advise you NOT to print these out. Each slide will take 1 page, and as a tree-hugger, I don't want to see reams of paper being used. I would review them online, or if you wish, save them to your own hard drive for future reference.

If you have visited this page before, and you don't see the most recent week's information, it could be because A) I haven't uploaded it yet, or 2) your computer has saved this page in its cache, rather than looking to see if the page was updated. Just hit the refresh button and you should be up to date.

If this format doesn't work for you, please drop me an e-mail: LCaplan@purdue.edu . If I get enough complaints/suggestions, I'll come up with a different format.

Week 1: Plant Science

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Week 2: Soil Science

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Week 3: Plant Nutrition and Yard Waste Recycling

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Week 4: Plant Disease Diagnostics; Intro to Insects

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Week 5: Pest Control With and Without Pesticides;

Pesticide Safety: Read the Label

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Week 6: Trees and Shrubs, Part 1 -- Selection, Planting and Fertilizing; Pruning Shrubs