Timely Topics

This year’s World Wetlands Day, celebrated on February 2, highlights the significance of taking action to “ensure the conservation and… Read More »A Growing Controversy: Should We Stop Using Peat?

With winter in full swing, Virginians are thinking about choosing a deicer to purchase for that next winter storm to… Read More »When it Comes to Snow and Ice Melt, how can I make a smart choice? 

It’s that time again when we are looking forward to the new year and making our annual resolutions.  It is… Read More »New Year’s Resolution for Gardeners

Blooming plants are often given as holiday gifts. Thanks to Bloomakers from Waynesboro, who donated amaryllis bulb “seconds,” to the… Read More »A Favorite Festive Flower

Healthy soil is essential to a healthy garden. But what does soil health really mean, and how can we improve… Read More »Take a Pledge 4 the Soil

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

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