Did you know that Fall is the ideal time to plant trees, shrubs, and perennials? This class offers easy tips for onsite composting, providing winter habitat and food for wildlife, and end-of-season care of tools and equipment. We’ll help you identify opportunities to learn from this year’s successes and failures (we all have them) to lay the groundwork for next year.
Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Joan McIntyre, who leads the VCE-MGNV Neighborhood Champions program that supports Master Gardeners as they offer gardening expertise to their neighborhoods, and Molly Newling, who excels at teaching the fine points of pruning among her many other gardening talents.
Zoom session, September 30, 2022
Video of Presentation
Additional Resources
Fall Chores
- Michigan State University
Your garden party of fall cleanup tasks - Cornell Cooperative Extension
Prepare Your Garden for Winter Q&A - Cornell Cooperative Extension
Fall Cleanup Q&A - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall Cleanup Hazards - Virginia Cooperative Extension
Compost: What It Is and What’s It To You - Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia Virtual Classroom
Lawn Care Basics – Year Round Resources - Virginia Cooperative Extension
Cool-Season Lawn Recovery Following Summer Stress
Garden Tool Maintenance
- Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Winter Tool Care - Virginia Cooperative Extension
Hand Tool Safety: Lawn Care Training Guide Hand Tool Care and Safe Use
Pruning and Planting
- Kansas State Extension
Fall Pruning: Think Twice - Virginia Cooperative Extension
A Guide to Successful Pruning: Shrub Pruning Calendar - Arbor Day Foundation,
How to Plant Your Trees
Native Plants for the Mid-Atlantic Region
- Best Bets: Plants for Particular Uses
https://mgnv.org/plants/best-bets/ - Guide to Native Plants for Northern Virginia, Plant NOVA Natives Campaign:
https://www.plantnovanatives.org/quick-start-guide - Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping – Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USFWS:
https://dnr.maryland.gov/criticalarea/Documents/chesapeakenatives.pdf - Green Book of the (Chesapeake Bay Watershed) Buffer, Maryland Department of Natural Resources: https://dnr.maryland.gov/criticalarea/Documents/GreenBook_Buffer.pdf
Native Plant Finders
- Chesapeake Bay Native Plant Center:
https://www.nativeplantcenter.net/ - Missouri Botanical Garden:
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx - Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration and Landscaping Project, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation:
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/nativeplants - Native Plant Information Network (NPIN), Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center:
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/ - National Wildlife Federation Plant Finder:
http://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder/Plants
General Resources
- Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic – from MGNV
https://mgnv.org/plants/native-plants/ - Audubon At Home Wildlife Sanctuary Program
https://www.audubonva.org/wildlife-sanctuary-program - Plant NOVA Natives
https://www.plantnovanatives.org/ - Plant NOVA Trees
https://www.plantnovatrees.org/ - Landscape for Life
https://landscapeforlife.colostate.edu/ - Virginia Cooperative Extension Educational Resources:
https://resources.ext.vt.edu/