Fall Gardening Festival - Week 1

Fall Gardening in October - It's not too late in Tidewater

As the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners celebrate a Virtual Garden Festival, we’re hoping to inspire great gardening this October. That said, many of you may think it’s too late to start a fall vegetable garden! Not so! Let’s get planting!

Find Recipes

Discover ways to use your fall garden bounty.

Herbs to Plant Now

Herbs are versatile plants for the garden. They are easy to grow, require little maintenance, and many are perennial, providing years of bountiful harvests.

Fall & Winter Cover Crops for the Home Garden

The summer is over. The soil has done a good job providing for crops of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc. If no fall crops are planned, an excellent idea to rejuvenate the soil is to plant a cover crop. This is an easy and quick method that will get let nature enrich the soil during this winter downtime.

Featured Videos

Wednesday, October 7 - 7pm

Fall Gardening in the Tidewater Area
VBMG Lynn Francois

Lynn will discuss fall gardening in October, fall & winter crops for Tidewater, creating good soil for good production, the benefits of cover crops, fall pests, successful seed planting, and journaling your garden story.

Apple Art
Apple Experiments
Apple Word Search
Coloring Sheets
Cooking with Apples
Johnny Appleseed Fact vs. Legend
Jokes
VA Apple Search

Cole Crops
Herbs
Leafy Greens
Onions, Garlic, & Shallots
Planning the Vegetable Garden
Sprouting Seeds for Food
VA Recommended Planting Dates

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From the Community

The Fall Gardening Festival has always been a community event with involvement from local societies, environmental organizations, and educators and we're happy to continue that tradition.

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Hampton Roads Native Plant Guide
Soil Testing Instructions
Wise Outdoor Water Use
Green Education & Virtual Learning
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