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Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter

Emilia’s Garden Tips: Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter Mulching & Cover Crops We highly recommend mulching and/or planting cover crops (living mulch!) to help manage soil erosion, increase…
Emilia planting seedlings in the Washington Youth Garden

How to Jump Start a School Garden

Emilia’s Garden Tips: How to Jump Start a School Garden What to Plant Now for Quick Harvests These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate and would appreciate…
Emilia planting seedlings in the Washington Youth Garden

Crape Myrtle Bark Scale in the DMV

Crape Myrtle Bark Scale in the DMV Written by: Vira Sisolak, UDC Master Gardener & Mary Blakeslee, FONA Member A new scale pest of crape myrtle called Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae (Common…

Guild Update — Spring 2021

Greetings from the Green Ambassador team! This year, we piloted a new program for our returning Green Ambassadors called the Guild. For Green Ambassadors who joined our program at the…

On the Horizon

As our gardens slowly wake up from their winter slumber, Xavier and Emilia of our Garden Team are nurturing over 5,000 baby vegetable seedlings in the greenhouse. They are growing…
FONA Field Notes banner of cherry blossom

Garden Science Update — Winter 2021

Greetings from the Garden Science Team! As we move closer to the spring season, we are preparing our garden planting plans for our schools. We are also planning our spring…
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