Garden Basics
About Gardening in Virginia
Whether you are a new or experienced gardener, there is always something to learn about plants, landscapes, and the environment!
Herb Culture and Use
This publicaton covers choosing a site for your herb garden, propagating herbs, harvesting, and more!
Reducing Pesticide Use in the Home Lawn and Garden
Pesticide use affects the quality of human health, the environment, and nontarget organisms in the ecosystem.
Intensive Gardening Methods
The purpose of gardening intensively is to harvest the most produce possible from a given space.
Tree Fruit in the Home Garden
This publicaton covers choosing, planting, and caring for different types of tree-fruit in your home garden.
What is a Watershed?
Together, land and water make up a watershed system. Your patio or garden is part of a watershed!
Selecting Landscape Plants: Flowering Trees
Flowering trees provide showy and unusual features with their floral beauty and seasonal interest.
Get a soil test!
The first step to growing a successful garden or lawn is to get a soil test through your local Virginia Cooperative Extension Office!
Need help with pruning?
Overgrown trees and shrubs must be pruned appropriately and at the correct time of year.
Pesticide safety
Virginia Tech's amazing Pesticide Programs team is here to teach you about Integrated Pest Management, safety, and more.
Recent Garden and Landscape Design Publications
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- Virginia Virtual Farm to Table: Greenhouse and Nursery Ornamentals From the vegetable transplants, you planted this spring to the shrubs and flowers that decorate the outside and inside of your home, Virginia’s greenhouses and nurseries supply a wide range of crops to regional and local markets. In addition, we have many farmers producing specialty cut flowers to decorate your home and dinner table. After learning about growing ornamentals, you will learn how to create some arrangements for your dinner table.
- Annuals: Culture and Maintenance Annual flowers live only for one growing season, during which they grow, flower, and produce seed, thereby completing their life cycle. Annuals must be set out or seeded every year since they don’t persist. Some varieties will self-sow, or naturally reseed themselves.
- Flowering Bulbs: Culture and Maintenance “Bulbs” is a term loosely used to include corms, tubers, tuberous roots, and rhizomes as well as true bulbs. This publication will refer to all of the above as bulbs. Many vegetables are propagated from or produce edible organs of these types (e.g., tuber, Irish potato; tuberous root, sweet potato; rhizome, Jerusalem artichoke; bulb, onion).
- Perennials: Culture, Maintenance and Propagation
- Patriotic Gardens: How to Plant a Red, White and Blue Garden
- America's Anniversary Garden: A Statewide Corridor and Entrance Enhancement Program
- Patriotic Gardens: Red, White, and Blue Native Plants In 2007, Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) developed the America’s Anniversary Garden to help individuals, communities, and groups commemorate America’s 400th Anniversary with a signature landscape, garden, or container planting. These signature gardens have red, white, and blue color schemes. Although the commemoration has passed, this guide continues to be useful for creating a patriotic garden.
- Herb Culture and Use Most botanists would define an herb as a plant that dies back to the ground each year without forming woody stem tissue. This definition limits the number of plants technically called herbs. Most gardeners include plants that have culinary, medicinal, aromatic, or ornamental uses. This definition would include lavender, rosemary, and bay, which form woody stems.
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