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Tag Archives: Climate Change
Adaptive Vegetable Gardening
Learn about adaptive approaches necessary as response to climate change for home vegetable gardening. These include general steps for reducing the garden’s carbon footprint, such as minimizing the use of power equipment and purchased fertilizers, building soil health, and conserving water as well as responding to increases in invasive weeds and insects. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Vegetable Gardening
Tagged Climate Change, drought, flood, invasive insects, invasive weeds, longer growing season, Pests, water management
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Climate Change and Its Effect on Gardening
Climate-Conscious Gardening To quote David W. Wolfe, Professor of Plant & Soil Ecology at Cornell University, “We are in the unfortunate situation of being the first generation of gardeners, ever, who cannot rely on historical weather records to tell us … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, MG in the Garden
Tagged Climate Change, drought, false spring, flooding, global warming, greenhouse gases, Phenology, whiplash weather, winter damage
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Insects Make My Food and . . .
Recent studies are documenting dramatic declines in the number and diversity of insects around the world. Entomologists, ecologists, and other scientists are expressing shock at the speed and scope of these losses, and they are pointing to these steep declines as a sign of broader ecosystem collapse. Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, Climate Change, Pollinators, Public Education
Tagged biological factors, Climate Change, habitat change, insect decline, pollution
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Ready, Set, Adapt! Climate Change: 2018 Notes from the Field
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia manage the Organic Vegetable Garden at Potomac Overlook Park in Arlington. Each year, this demonstration garden produces hundreds of pounds of produce which it donates to the Arlington Food Assistance Center. These Notes from the Field, compiled by Judy Johnson and Judy Salveson, highlight some of the challenges the garden faced in 2018 due to record-breaking weather. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Organic Vegetable Demonstration Garden, Public Education
Tagged Climate Change, Extreme weather., Organic Vegetable Garden, warmer nights
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