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August Garden Chores

August garden chores in zone 7b

By following this checklist, you can ensure that your garden is healthy, thriving, and producing an abundance of beautiful and tasty plants throughout the growing season. Flower Beds, Trees and Shrubs August can be hot, so continue to water deeply, especially during dry spells. Water early in the morning or late in the evening to …

July Garden Chores

July Garden Chores

By following this checklist, you can ensure that your garden is healthy, thriving, and producing an abundance of beautiful and tasty plants throughout the growing season. Flower Beds, Trees and Shrubs Lightly fertilize your flower beds to encourage their growth. Bulbs that can be planted in the middle of the summer include gladiolus and butterfly …

June Chores

June Garden chores

By following this checklist, you can ensure that your garden is healthy, thriving, and producing an abundance of beautiful and tasty plants throughout the growing season. Flower Beds, Trees and Shrubs Water deeply and consistently, especially during dry spells.  Water early in the morning or late in the afternoon to minimize water evaporation. Do not remove …

Horticultural Learning Center

Hanover County gardeners will soon have a Horticultural Learning Center.  It will be a space for public education, demonstrating research-based gardening practices which can be incorporated into the home setting.  Hanover Master Gardeners will manage the garden, consisting of multiple raised beds constructed through different methods and materials and featuring perennial, annual, native plants and ...

May Garden Chores

By following this checklist, you can ensure that your garden is healthy, thriving, and producing an abundance of beautiful and tasty plants throughout the growing season. Flower Beds, Trees and Shrubs Fertilize your annual and perennial flower beds. Remove any dead flowers from your plants to encourage new growth. May is a great time to …

House Plants

House plant recommendations These are some of the house plants our master gardeners grow and love.  Read about their characteristics and care to find the right plant for your home. Arrowhead Plant House Plant – 6-12 inches Arrowhead vine is named for its heart-shape foliage. Every few weeks, this tropical plant unfurls medium green leaves splashed with white, ...

Relationship Between Plants and Pollinators

Entomophilous flowers are those flowers that require pollination by insects.  Insects have been pollinating flowers for over 100 million years.   In fact, plants have coadapted with insects creating a complex network of interactions.  To compete for the attention of pollinators, flowers have evolved ingenious methods to entice hungry bees, birds, moths, butterflies, and beetles to …

Herbs

California Wonder Peppers - HEIRLOOM. The standard bell pepper for many decades, this 1928 introduction is still the largest open-pollinated, heirloom bell you can grow. A perfect stuffing pepper-blocky 4" x 3 1/2", thick-walled, tender and flavorful. Hungarian Wax Peppers - A Mexican favorite that's four to five times hotter than jalapeno: distinctive, pungent flavor. ...