Spring has arrived at the Virginia Piedmont and it is time to get cool weather plants in the ground while preparing beds for summer planting.
The Garden Shed
A Community Newsletter published by the
Piedmont Master Gardeners
April 2025-Vol.11, No.4
Growing a Variety of Beans
Welcome to the family Fabaceae with over 20,000 members!
The Differences Between Drupes, Berries, Nuts and More Explained
If a peach is a drupe and an apple is a pome, then what is a berry?
Prickly Pear – A Cactus for the East
Do you have a hot, dry area where nothing will grow? Try prickly pear cactus.
The Ornamental Garden in April
A busy and beautiful month!
Upcoming Events
Get your calendar out!
The Garden Shed
A community newsletter published by the Piedmont Master Gardeners each month.
Piedmont Master Gardeners has published The Garden Shed monthly since January 2015. All articles are accessible full text in our archives. There you can browse or read entire issues. To find an article on a specific topic, use the search tool below.
We — the writers of The Garden Shed — would like to introduce ourselves and our free online community newsletter. We are members of the Piedmont Master Gardeners, which simply means we have all been trained to share the scientific expertise of Virginia Tech and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. More important, we are your friends and neighbors with a passion for gardening – and learning more about it. Each month we will communicate the tasks that we are performing in our ornamental gardens, edible gardens and lawns. Each month’s newsletter will also contain a featured topic, ranging from growing roses to preventing pests and diseases in your vegetable garden, plus a recipe for something fresh from the garden.
For comments, questions or suggested topics for future Garden Shed articles contact us at: garden-shed@piedmontmastergardeners.org