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  • Spring garden day sale

    Green Spring Gardens: Spring Garden Day – MGNV Plant Sale!

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    Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Rd, Alexandria, Virginia

    Meet with VCE Arlington/Alexandria Extension Master Gardeners to choose the perfect plants for your garden!  If you are planning to start or add to a native plant collection, they will help with plant selection, planting advice, and answer all your questions.  In addition, there will be artists, food vendors, and bake sales.

    Free

  • EMG training a junior master gardener group.

    Information Night for Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Training

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Are you interested in becoming an Extension Master Gardener (EMG) volunteer in Arlington and the City of Alexandria? Here is an opportunity to learn more about our volunteer training program requirements, meet and talk with current EMGs, and begin the decision-making process about whether this program is for you.

    Free
  • Drip irrigation system in raised beds

    Irrigation Uncovered: Drip Irrigation for Above-Ground Gardeners

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Are you tired of hand watering the pots on your patio or your vegetable garden? Do you strive to maximize your garden’s beauty and bounty while minimizing your use of water? Drip irrigation is the answer to your problems.

    Free
  • Companion planting, tomatoes and marigolds; South Four Mile Run Community Garden

    Companion Planting

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Companion planting will increase the plant diversity in your garden, making your plants healthier and resulting in higher yields. Companion planting will also bring more beneficial insects and pollinators to establish natural pest controls.

    Free
  • Good Place by Lucy Cousins

    Read a Book About Pollinators and Plants for Pollinator Week

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    Small Space Garden Fairlington Community Center 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington, Virginia

    Kids are invited to listen to Extension Master Gardeners reading A Good Place by Lucy Cousins, a short children's book about pollinators and the basic needs of plants. Then the children will put on gardening gloves to help transplant plants in the garden.

  • Columbine and phlox in containers at Mt. Cuba Center

    Container Gardening with Native Plants

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Gardeners with planting space limited to patios, decks, or balconies can still create miniature habitats for pollinators and birds by incorporating native plants in containers.

    Free
  • Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Seat Oats) in container

    Create Beautiful Containers and Mini-habitats too… With Native Plants!

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    Small Space Garden Fairlington Community Center 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington, Virginia

    Gardeners with planting space limited to patios, decks, or balconies can still create miniature habitats for pollinators and birds by incorporating native plants. Join Extension Master Gardener Elaine Mills for an in-person presentation about which plant species are suitable for use in containers while providing the best wildlife support.

    Free

  • Garlic, beets, peas, etc

    Succession Planting

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Join Extension Master Gardener Nina DeRosa, a leader in our Organic Vegetable Garden, for our discussion on succession planting to learn how you could have a steady stream of year-round harvests and so much more.

    Free
  • Diseased basil.

    Challenges of the Summer Garden

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    ONLINE ZOOM PRESENTATION
    Virtual Event

    Has summer has got you and your garden down? Plants drooping, insect attack, aggressive weeds, and is that a fungus? Join Extension Master Gardener Beth Buffington for tips on what you can do right now and what you can plan to do to make sure your summer garden thrives in the future.

    Free
  • Rubee puppet

    Super Honey Bee

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    Small Space Garden Fairlington Community Center 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington, Virginia

    Kids are invited to join Extension Master Gardeners for an in-person activity to learn about honeybees in the Small Space Garden at the Fairlington Community Center during the Fairlington Farmers Market on Sunday, July 20.

    Free

  • Arlington County Fair endless summer

    Arlington County Fair: Competitive Exhibits Registration Deadline!

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    Fairlington Community Center 3308 S Stafford St, Arlington, VA

    Have you had a spectacular garden this year? Are your beans beautiful and your zinnias amazing? Come to the Arlington County Fair and enter the Competitive Exhibits for Fruits and Vegetables or Flowers! Entries will be judged by EMGs and there are prizes galore to give you bragging rights in your neighborhood. Categories are available for kids, teens and adults.

  • Arlington County Fair August 13-17

    2025 Arlington County Fair

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    Thomas Jefferson Community Center 3501 South 2nd Street, Arlington, VA

    The Arlington County Fair is so much more than rides and food! Gardeners, cooks and bakers, bring in your entries for the County Fair Competitive Exhibits. Blue ribbons are in your future with prize winning vegetables and flowers, breads, baked goods and preserves. Drop by the Virginia Cooperative Extension booth for information and answers to your gardening questions.