Gardening Talks
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Gardening Talks are free and open to the public. No registration necessary.
Zoom links will be published to the Home Page a few weeks prior to the scheduled talk.
Please join us!
Zoom links will be published to the Home Page a few weeks prior to the scheduled talk.
Please join us!
2021 Gardening TALKS
February 22, 2021 7PM -8PM
Warm Season Turfgrasses Click here for Handout
Adam Nichols, Research Manager, Turfgrass & Weed Sciences, HRAREC
Spring is the perfect season to begin thinking about your lawn. If I your grass browns out in the winter and is green in the summer, you have a warm season turf grass (Bermuda, St. Augustine, Centipede are examples), and now is the time to get your lawn ready for summer. Adam Nichols, Research Manager, Turfgrass and Weed Science will focus on how to establish and maintain your lawn.
Get a jump start on summer by joining the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners on February 22nd from 7PM – 8PM for this informative presentation.
March 22, 2021 7PM -8PM
Urban Vegetable Gardening Click here for Reading List
John Wilson, Farmer John of Capstone Creations in Virginia Beach
Do you think that you can’t grow fresh vegetables because you don’t have enough garden space? Maybe you don’t have any garden space at all. Urban Vegetable Gardening is the answer for you. John Wilson, owner of John Capstone Creations in Virginia Beach will discuss the importance of urban agriculture, how to stretch the period of time you can harvest vegetables and ways to improve your garden fertility. Join the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners over Zoom at 7PM on March 22nd for this interesting talk.
April 19th at 7PM – 8PM Click here for the Handout
Understanding the Myths and Truths about Organic Pesticides
Sherry Kern, VCE Virginia Beach Master Gardener
May 17, 2021 7PM -8PM
Tech-savvy Gardening
Andrea Davis, VB VCE Extension Agent
Have you ever seen a plant that you would like to identify? Do you want to create a garden that attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees? What are the best plants for our area? Gardeners use all kinds of tools & our digital world regularly offers new tools to acquire gardening information. There are many apps & online resources, but which ones are best? Andrea’s advice will help you choose reliable online sources for information.
August 16, 2021 7PM- 8PM
Gardening Ergonomics
Dr. Natalie Foret, PT, DPT, MTC, CMTPT
Do you have aches and pains that make doing the gardening you love difficult or impossible? Join Dr. Natalie Foret for an educational seminar about gardening ergonomics. Dr. Foret will discuss proper form and proper use of body mechanics to protect your back, knees, hips and shoulders. In addition, she will review considerations on how to modify your movements to improve ease with gardening and techniques for those who already have an issue or pain. Lastly, Dr. Foret will make exercise recommendations for building a stronger core, and stretches to improve mobility.
October 18, 2021 7PM- 8PM
Sex and the Single Flower
Sherry Kern, VCE Virginia Beach Master Gardener
Have you seen a fig’s flowers? How can you tell the sex of a plant? How many trees are needed for red oaks to reproduce? Answers to these questions and more can be found as we take a look at both familiar and unfamiliar ways, and interesting and weird ways that plants propagate their species.
February 22, 2021 7PM -8PM
Warm Season Turfgrasses Click here for Handout
Adam Nichols, Research Manager, Turfgrass & Weed Sciences, HRAREC
Spring is the perfect season to begin thinking about your lawn. If I your grass browns out in the winter and is green in the summer, you have a warm season turf grass (Bermuda, St. Augustine, Centipede are examples), and now is the time to get your lawn ready for summer. Adam Nichols, Research Manager, Turfgrass and Weed Science will focus on how to establish and maintain your lawn.
Get a jump start on summer by joining the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners on February 22nd from 7PM – 8PM for this informative presentation.
March 22, 2021 7PM -8PM
Urban Vegetable Gardening Click here for Reading List
John Wilson, Farmer John of Capstone Creations in Virginia Beach
Do you think that you can’t grow fresh vegetables because you don’t have enough garden space? Maybe you don’t have any garden space at all. Urban Vegetable Gardening is the answer for you. John Wilson, owner of John Capstone Creations in Virginia Beach will discuss the importance of urban agriculture, how to stretch the period of time you can harvest vegetables and ways to improve your garden fertility. Join the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners over Zoom at 7PM on March 22nd for this interesting talk.
April 19th at 7PM – 8PM Click here for the Handout
Understanding the Myths and Truths about Organic Pesticides
Sherry Kern, VCE Virginia Beach Master Gardener
May 17, 2021 7PM -8PM
Tech-savvy Gardening
Andrea Davis, VB VCE Extension Agent
Have you ever seen a plant that you would like to identify? Do you want to create a garden that attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees? What are the best plants for our area? Gardeners use all kinds of tools & our digital world regularly offers new tools to acquire gardening information. There are many apps & online resources, but which ones are best? Andrea’s advice will help you choose reliable online sources for information.
August 16, 2021 7PM- 8PM
Gardening Ergonomics
Dr. Natalie Foret, PT, DPT, MTC, CMTPT
Do you have aches and pains that make doing the gardening you love difficult or impossible? Join Dr. Natalie Foret for an educational seminar about gardening ergonomics. Dr. Foret will discuss proper form and proper use of body mechanics to protect your back, knees, hips and shoulders. In addition, she will review considerations on how to modify your movements to improve ease with gardening and techniques for those who already have an issue or pain. Lastly, Dr. Foret will make exercise recommendations for building a stronger core, and stretches to improve mobility.
October 18, 2021 7PM- 8PM
Sex and the Single Flower
Sherry Kern, VCE Virginia Beach Master Gardener
Have you seen a fig’s flowers? How can you tell the sex of a plant? How many trees are needed for red oaks to reproduce? Answers to these questions and more can be found as we take a look at both familiar and unfamiliar ways, and interesting and weird ways that plants propagate their species.
