Extension Educationin Montgomery County

Montgomery County Master Gardener Association holds three Plant Sales each year at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office located at 9020 Airport Road, Conroe, Texas 77303. Our Fall Sales provide landscape and garden offerings suitable for Winter planting in Montgomery County. An educational presentation by Montgomery County’s Extension Horticulture Agent is held before each plant sale from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. in the Thomas R. LeRoy Education Building ( located at the Extension Office facility). More info will be posted to the website as the sale gets closer.

The Montgomery County Master Gardeners invite you to the Fall “Open Gardens” event to share the demonstration gardens which they maintain weekly at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office. The Extension Gardens consist of a variety of garden areas: Floral, Adaptive, Vegetable, Bog, Aquaponics, Greenhouses, Discovery, Orchard and EarthKind. This event is a wonderful way to see the Master Gardeners’ results and receive information of best gardening practices in Montgomery County.

Private Pesticide Applicator's Class Tuesday, November 26, 2018 9:00am - until approximately 1:00pm Cost:  $60, which includes the class and books ("Using Pesticides Private Applicator Manual" and "Texas Department of Agriculture Pesticide Laws & Regulations") Class fee is due prior to class.  Please contact April Fagan at 936-539-7822 or amfagan@ag.tamu.edu for questions on how to sign up.

The latter part of this summer has been interesting in terms of forage production, to say the least.  With constant rainfall, we all fell victim to not being able to get hay cut and harvested that we needed to supply us through the winter.  Forage that was put up may have sat in the field for quite some time before the window of opportunity presented itself or the race was on to get it dried down enough to put up and still might have been rolled with a... Read More →

A Pre-Sale Program highlighting the plants in this Sale will be held at 8 am Saturday, at the Extension Office. Our Sale starts at 9:00. Our Montgomery County Horticultural Agent and Master Gardeners will present an informative program highlighting plants in the sale, plant selection, and planting information and then will be available during the sale to answer your questions.

 Is the Grass Greener Next Door?  8:00am - 10:00am Want the Greenest Lawn in the Neighborhood?  10:30am - 12:30pm Cost is $5 for one class or $8 for two classes.  Cash (exact change) is preferred.  Snacks provided.  Check in at the door beginning at 7:30am.  No pre-registration required.