Welcome
 Greetings and welcome to the website of the Master Gardeners of Central Georgia (MGCG). This site will provide you with information about upcoming MGCG events: Spring and Fall plant sales, Georgia National Fair activities, Spring Home and Garden Show, to name a few.
We’ll provide you with gardening-related timely tips. For example, sowing, maintaining, and harvesting the vegetables in your garden. Also, we’ll publicize our many volunteer activities: Wesleyan College native plant garden, Junior Master Gardener programs in the area, homeowner site visits, among others.
 Enjoy your visit to our site, and be sure to check out our
online Photo Album. 
First things first, what is the purpose of the Master Gardeners of Central Georgia?
Purpose
The purpose of the Master Gardeners of Central Georgia is to support the Georgia Master Gardener Program and the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension in promoting good horticultural practices by:
- increasing the Master Gardener’s and community’s knowledge of gardening and related activities;
- enhancing and supplementing the horticultural efforts of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and the Georgia Master Gardener Program; and,
- providing opportunities for Master Gardeners to meet and associate with others who have similar horticultural interests.
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What exactly are Master Gardeners?
To answer that question, click here.
So, who are we?
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About Us
Our members come from throughout the middle-Georgia region: Macon to Montezuma, Reynolds to Warner Robins, and everywhere in between! We come from all walks of life, too. We’re teachers and farmers, doctors and scientists, computer technicians and auto mechanics, homemakers and retired military. In short, we’re your next door neighbors!
 
 Timely Tip: Don't Commit "Crape Murder"
From late January to early February is the time to prune crape myrtles IF they need pruning. There’s a right way and a wrong way. The photo definitely shows the wrong way!
Topping a tree of any kind is always a bad practice. It leaves horrible scars and wounds that will last forever. It makes a profusion of smaller branches that destroy the natural proportions of the tree. Winter topping does not create more profuse blooms, but it does create floppy new growth that bows under summer rains. Most of all, it’s ugly!
Prune new suckers that come from the ground or main trunks. Remove interior shoots that travel horizontally inside the canopy instead of vertically. Shorten all long arching branches back to where they are ¼”-1/2” in diameter. Do not prune for size control!
Bottom line, to save maximum maintenance time in the garden, don’t prune crape myrtles at all. Let them be the beautiful trees they are.
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Meetings
Meetings are held at 7 pm on the first Tuesday of every month and are open to all area Master Gardeners. The location of our meetings may change from month-to-month.
For the next month's location, send us an email at info@mgcg.org
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