Best Gardening Practices

From the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden

Gazebo at the Glencarlyn Garden — The Gazebo
Photo © Judy Funderburk

The coordinators of the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden started making short educational videos in the fall of 2020 as an alternative, distanced means of providing some of the educational content usually featured at the garden’s annual AutumnFest event. This page includes videos on Gardening Basics, Pruning and Climate Conscious Gardening.

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Gardening Basics

Planting Shrubs and Trees
with Jonathan Morgenstein

Learn the proper timing and technique for planting shrubs and trees.

Doing a Soil Test
with Andrew Carr

Learn how and why to do a soil test.

Right Plant, Right Place
with Andrew Carr & Jonathan Morgenstein

Learn about the factors you should consider when finding the right place for plants in your garden.

Garden Tasks

Cutting Back Native Plants in Spring
with Wendy Mills

Learn the importance of when and how to cut back native plants to provide seeds for birds and other wildlife through the winter and to provide future habitat for the larvae of cavity-nesting native bees for next fall.

Cutting Back Perennials as They Grow
with Alyssa Ford Morel

Learn how and when to cut back a variety of summer- and fall-blooming perennials.

Winter Gardening Tasks
with Alyssa Ford Morel

Gardening tasks for winter include planning, pruning, planting, and weeding.

Winter Pruning
with Paul Nuhn

Master Gardener Paul Nuhn demonstrates winter pruning on three woody plants: a shrub, a rose bush, and a deciduous tree.

Climate Conscious Gardening

This series of five short videos illustrates climate-conscious gardening principles employed at the Glencarlyn Library demonstration garden. These include such techniques as the use of cisterns, drip irrigation, raised beds, mulch, soil tests, peat-free potting products, and native plants specifically suited to particular growing conditions, especially drought-tolerant species..