Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: November 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for November 2022
Demonstration Gardens
Beautiful Native Shrubs with Outstanding Fruit Video
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.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
October 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for October 2022
Planting Cover Crops at the Potomac Overlook Organic Vegetable Garden
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.
Beautiful Fall-Blooming Perennials Video
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 AutumnFest 2022 – Saturday – 10 to 3
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!
Organic Vegetable Garden Pepper Fest 2022 – Sunday – 1 to 4
Pepper Fest! Come celebrate the end of summer at the Organic Vegetable Garden!
September 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: September 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for September 2022
Four Blazing Stars for Summer to Fall
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.
Barriers: Practical Ways to Discourage Garden Pests
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.
Beautiful Ferns, Sedges, & Grasses Video
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.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: August 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for August 2022
Beautiful Native Shrubs Video
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.
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening: July 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for July 2022
Come to Florafest in Potomac Overlook Park and visit the Organic Vegetable Garden!
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.
Don’t Guess, Soil Test!
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.
Beautiful Native Plants: Spring Ephemerals
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.
The Greening Time
The best way to get in touch with what is greening is to take a walk outside. The six demonstration gardens maintained by the MGNV in Arlington and Alexandria are open to the public, so visitors can go and observe the varying stages of new spring growth. Throughout our area, trees are budding, birds are returning or passing in migration, opossums and salamanders are reviving from their winter’s sleep, even though spring doesn't come officially until mid-March.
Winter: The Quiet Season
Enjoy this lovely essay by Wendy Mills on winter dormancy.
Faux-Nuts, Fruits, Berries & Seeds
The bounty produced by the Library Garden this fall captivated many visitors. Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia love sharing the beauty and abundance of Nature's gifts, while also having the opportunity to answer lots of questions elicited by the great variety of seeds, berries, fruits and the one “faux-nut” displayed in our Glencarlyn Library Teaching/Demonstration garden.
Taking a Closer Look at Roadside Wildflowers
Many of the wildflowers seen along local roadways or on day-trips to the beach or mountains (those yellow, orange, purple or pink blurs) can be viewed close-up in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, VA.
Five Yards and a Demonstration Garden: Part II
The Glencarlyn Library Garden Coordinators Talk About Their Personal Spaces and Public Collaboration
Learn about the transformations in the gardens of Alyssa Ford Morel and Paul Nuhn and how all five gardeners' aesthetics have informed the development of the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden.
Five Yards and a Demonstration Garden: Part I
The Glencarlyn Library Garden Coordinators Talk About Their Personal Spaces and Public Collaboration
Learn about the transformations in the gardens of Judy Funderburk, Elaine Mills and Wendy Mills
Gifts of Fragrance in the Early Spring Garden
Gifts of Fragrance in the Early Spring Garden
How often do we miss things because we are just too busy to “slow down and smell the flowers?”