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!
As thoughts turn to vegetable gardening in late winter and early spring, many of us want to start some vegetables… Read More »Time to Start Tomatoes From Seed!
Federal climate data confirm what we’ve all seen in our rain gauges in recent years: extreme precipitation events are happening… Read More »Putting the Brakes on Stormwater Runoff
This year’s Great Backyard Bird Count—a real-time snapshot of bird populations—will take place from February 12 to 15. How many… Read More »How to Bring Home the Birds
February 2 in the United States is Groundhog Day. We all know that if the groundhog emerges from his burrow… Read More »World Wetlands Day: 50 Years of Recognition
The seed catalogs started to arrive in November. What better way to spend a cold, windy day in January than… Read More »Don’t Wait to Order Seeds
After the excitement of the holidays fade, we turn reluctantly to the long, dark, cold days of January and wish… Read More »Forcing Bulbs Indoors Provides a Harbinger of Spring