These days home gardeners are increasingly turning to more eco-friendly practices. Designed to benefit the environment, conservation landscaping is becoming… Read More »The Trend Toward Conservation Landscaping
Once you have harvested the last of your veggies, it’s time to put the garden to bed for the winter.… Read More »Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter
Creating a backyard forest is a fast-growing movement, inspired in part by the desire to mitigate the effects of global… Read More »Grow a Forest in Your Backyard
Piedmont Master Gardener volunteers are reaching out to garden centers, nurseries and other retailers in the Charlottesville-Albemarle County area to… Read More »Find Native Plants at a Retailer Near You
As Extension Master Gardeners, we help educate our local communities about the benefits of growing our own tasty, nutritious vegetables,… Read More »Value Your Food! Food Saving Tips for Reducing Food Waste
We gardeners don’t need a weatherman to know it’s been an abnormally dry year in the Charlottesville area. Federal weather… Read More »Wise Watering in Dry Times
The Piedmont Master Gardeners’ Therapeutic Horticulture team won a recent shout-out from the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, which praised… Read More »PMG’s Therapeutic Horticulture Program Earns Applause
As the weather warms up, gardeners are very eager to get those tomato transplants into the vegetable garden. Whether you… Read More »Tips on Transplanting Tomatoes
Earth Day 2021: It’s Time to Restore Our Earth Happy spring! We hope you’ve managed to get outside and dig… Read More »Three Days of Climate Action to Restore our Earth
This time of year they are SO tempting! Seeing the eruption of white blossoms along a city boulevard or a… Read More »Beware the Callery Pear!