Tips for Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens over Summer
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens Over Summer Step 1: Plant for Back to School Harvests & Lessons These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate but once…
Uncategorized
Tips on Pruning Fruit Trees
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Pruning Fruit Trees Step 1: Remove Unwanted Growth Remove any dead, diseased and broken branches. Good plant hygiene best practice to prevent diseases spreading further and killing…
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures The First Blade of Sweetgrass by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey is a story about a Wabanaki child learning her ancestral practices to…
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…
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…
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…
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…