Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Promoting environmentally sound gardening practices for over 35 years!
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We are sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native vines.
Vegetable gardening information and events for November 2022
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native shrubs that bear outstanding fruit.
The Buddie Ford Nature Center Garden is our newest demonstration garden. In 2021 the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists (ARMN) adopted the garden as a demonstration garden. In 2022 Virginia Cooperative Extension and Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) also formally adopted it as a demonstration garden. It is the only joint ARMN-MGNV demonstration garden in the Arlington/Alexandria area.
The Buddie Ford Nature Center Garden is our newest demonstration garden. In 2021 the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists (ARMN) adopted the garden as a demonstration garden. In 2022 Virginia Cooperative Extension and Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) also formally adopted it as a demonstration garden. It is the only joint ARMN-MGNV demonstration garden in the Arlington/Alexandria area.
Vegetable gardening information and events for October 2022
The Organic Vegetable Garden uses cover crops as transition plantings to improve soil texture, water infiltration, and fertility in the garden. Planting of cover crops begins in September at the OVG.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on fall-blooming perennials.
Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
300 South Kensington Street
Arlington, Virginia 22204
Join us at our celebration of Fall and nature with plants, crafts, food and education! RAIN OR SHINE!
Pepper Fest! Come celebrate the end of summer at the Organic Vegetable Garden!
September 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Vegetable gardening information and events for September 2022
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden added four species of blazing stars to the renovated beds bordering the parking lot. These are all attractive perennial native wildflowers that homeowners may want to consider for their own gardens. The plants, which are all members of the aster family, are distinctive in that their feathery flower heads consist only of disk florets without accompanying ray flowers.
Learn how the Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG) Master Gardeners protect the vegetable garden from the deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, insects, and birds that want to enjoy the garden’s bounty.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on ferns, sedges, and grasses.
Vegetable gardening information and events for August 2022
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month's topic. This month's focus is on native shrubs with outstanding flowers.
Vegetable gardening information and events for July 2022
The Pollinator Garden bed at Glencarlyn Library Garden was redesigned in 2019 as an intern project. The resources that were developed are posted for gardeners who would like to use them as inspiration for creating a similar bed in their own gardens.
Celebrate National Gardening Week by taking a virtual tour of eight gardens maintained by Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia and six public gardens in the Washington metropolitan area to see examples of good gardening techniques and gain inspiration for your own home landscape. Extension Master Gardener Elaine Mills, a coordinator at the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, Virginia, showcases best management practices and design concepts employed by her fellow demonstration garden leaders in a wide variety of settings
The beds in the Small Space Garden are being redesigned to showcase native plants appropriate for patios and other small spaces, for varying conditions of sun, part sun, and shade. Each of the designs will be posted and made available to gardeners who would like to duplicate the design in their own gardens.
As part of Florafest at Potomac Overlook Park, Extension Master Gardeners from the Organic Vegetable Garden will lead tours of the garden and be available to discuss all things about vegetable gardening in Northern Virginia. Visitors to the garden can bring their questions to the pop-up plant clinic, and there will be activities for children focusing on seeds, including planting seeds in pots to take home.
The Small Space Garden grows fruit and vegetables in two raised beds, in containers, up trellises, and intermixed with the ornamental plants in the beds. Soil tests are an important part of garden planning and planting. The Extension Master Gardeners test the soil in the Small Space Garden to assess the need for fertilizers, lime, or other amendments.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have recently created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos as well as additional resources on our website every month.
These plant and gardening related presentations from the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden offer a range of educational information on gardening and includes a new series on Beautiful Native Plants
