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Slugs are slimy, soft-bodied, legless mollusks, built like snails with no shells. They can do damage to edible and ornamental… Read More »Managing Slugs in Home Gardens

  With spring’s arrival, many of us marvel at the incredible diversity of beautiful blossoms that appear in the landscape… Read More »How Flowering Plants Attract Pollinators

It’s May and frosty nights are now a distant memory!  The garden centers are abuzz with plenty of exciting new… Read More »The Ornamental Garden in May

In the Virginia Piedmont we have had an early winter-spring transition this year. Gardeners who capitalized and planted spring crops… Read More »The Edible Garden in May

Cucumbers are, to me, a quintessential summer vegetable. (To paraphrase British humorist Miles Kington: Knowledge is knowing a cucumber is… Read More »Cucumbers

Piedmont Master Gardeners’ Spring Plant Sale The Piedmont Master Gardeners’ annual Spring Plant Sale will be held from 10 a.m.… Read More »Upcoming Events

Let’s face it – there’s always something to do in the perennial garden. Besides the usual soil preparation, planting, weeding,… Read More »Perennial Garden Grooming and Maintenance Techniques

Although in the Charlottesville area we get a good amount of rain throughout the year, still there are dry periods… Read More »Drip Irrigation Systems for Home Gardens

Since the 1940s or 1950s peat moss has been a widely-used component of potting soils and related commercial soil mixes.… Read More »Peat-free Potting Mix: What are the Best Options?

Like most folks, I’m particularly fond of redbuds, and I treasure several in our yard.  Two are volunteers — the… Read More »What’s Wrong with our Redbud?