gardening
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3SquaresVT will help you start gardening
VERMONT — Signs of spring are slowly but surely appearing across the state, which means it’s time to think about which fruits, vegetables, and herbs to grow this…
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Fort Ti’s Garden & Landscape Symposium goes virtual
The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Ninth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium virtually on two consecutive Saturday mornings, April 10 and 17. This online program features…
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Free vegetable gardening series
University of Vermont (UVM) Extension Community Horticulture Program Master Gardener volunteers are hosting a free vegetable gardening education series on six consecutive Saturdays this spring. “Learn to Grow…
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Vermont 4-H hosts gardening series for kids
A free, six-part series for youths, ages 8-18, will focus on resources and skills to grow and eat healthy food. The biweekly program, offered through University of Vermont…
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Ask a master gardener: What do to this month
Pruning trees and shrubs, cutting back ornamental grasses, and checking perennials for frost heaving are some of the gardening tips for this month. The days are longer, the…
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Ask a master gardener: Choosing grow lights
With the lengthening daylight and the many seed catalogs arriving in your mailbox, it’s hard to ignore the promise of spring. Are you planning to grow your own…
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Judith’s garden: A very cool greenhouse
When people mention a greenhouse, the image that often comes to mind is a vast hooped structure, 150-feet long or more, filled with growing plants, either to yield…
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Ask a master gardener: Winterberry, a native of lasting beauty
Dominated by shades of gray, the landscape appears bleak in winter. Look closer and you may glimpse muted mauves in the distant mountains or the warm glow that…
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Five gardens to visit from home
When planning a foreign adventure, adding a garden to the itinerary is an ideal way to be outside, avoid large crowds and leisurely explore on a budget. You’re…
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Ask a master gardener: What’s a living Christmas tree?
This holiday season Christmas trees laden with cherished ornaments and twinkly lights evoking a sense of wonder, peace and warmth will adorn our homes. When the festivities conclude,…
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Gardening: Plant bulbs now for spring blooms
Do your future self a favor, and plant spring-blooming bulbs this fall. Depending on where you live, there can be a month or more after the snow recedes…
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Gardening conference set for November
VERMONT — Gardeners of all abilities are invited to participate in a virtual statewide gardening conference on Nov. 5 and 6 to hear from horticultural, soil and composting…
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Gardening: Tips for harvesting pumpkins and squash
Fall brings many great things that come in beautiful shades of orange, yellow, red and brown. Pumpkins and winter squash are among the most wonderful of these. Fall’s…
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Judith’s Garden: The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Autumn is surely Vermont’s most beloved season. For me, the early morning view across the misty valley to nearby Mount Moosalamoo, alive with the colors of fall —…
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Gardening: How to rehab a perennial garden
As I look out at my perennial garden this time of year, it looks…tired. The Rudbeckia fulgida (Black-eyed Susan) is at its prime, but just about everything else…
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In online classes, learn how to attract pollinators to your garden
BURLINGTON — Interested in creating a pollinator garden to provide a place for native bees and butterflies to thrive? The University of Vermont (UVM) Extension Community Horticulture Program…