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Master Gardener’s Bookshelf: HomeGrown Pantry
Homegrown Pantry is a guide to planning, growing, and preserving vegetables, fruits, and herbs, with the goal of eating from your garden throughout the year. You will enjoy browsing through the pages and admire the beautiful photos, in addition to benefitting from all the excellent advice. Continue reading
Posted in Master Gardeners Bookshelf, Organic Vegetable
Tagged Food preservation, fruit, vegetables
Winter and the Vegetable Gardener
People seem to think that winter is a slow time for a vegetable gardener, but that’s a misconception. In fact, winter is the time a vegetable gardener works out plans for the coming year’s garden. Continue reading
Five Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know About Growing Tomatoes!
Written by the MGNV Organic Vegetable Demonstration Garden Master Gardeners, with special thanks to Debbie Siegel and Tom Laughlin. Five Things About Growing Tomatoes Are you growing tomatoes this year? Here are five things you should know about getting the best tomato … Continue reading
Posted in Community Gardens, Demonstration Gardens, Five Things You Didn't Know About..., MG in the Garden, Organic Vegetable, Public Education
Tagged beans, Black Krim Organic, blood meal, compost, composting, Demonstration Gardens, Food and Agriculture Organization, fruit, heirloom tomatoes, Homestead 24, Jasper tomatoes, legumes, Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia, MGNV, nutrients, organic matter, Organic Vegetable Garden, peas, Plants, rotating crops, seedlings, spring frost, tomatoes, vegetables, winter frost, winter leaching, winter rye
The Long View – Meditations on Gardening: The Garden as Artifact
By Christa Watters, Extension Master Gardener The Garden as Artifact Garden: n. Planted area of ground, a plot of ground where plants such as fruits, vegetables and flowers are grown. (Latin origin hortus garda implies a closed area. Ultimately from … Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, The Long View – Meditations on Gardening
Tagged Alexandria, Arlington, buds, Climate Change, December solstice, deciduous, evergreens, fruits, garden bone structure, garden structure, gardening, horticulture, invasive species, Master Gardeners, midwinter, seed catalogs, Seeds, shrubs, Simpson Gardens, snow, spring, spring equinox, Trees, vegetables, Wildlife, Winter, winter gardens, winter interest
