Food Gardening Special Edition 2023 | |
Grow It Eat It Celebrates 15 Years! | Since 2009, over 47,000 Maryland residents have received science-based food gardening answers and help from Grow It Eat It – one of the six major sub-programs of the University of Maryland Extension Master Gardener Program that teaches and promotes home, school, and community food gardening. Read about this amazing program and its successes, and how to find gardening classes in your neighborhood. | |
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Cucumbers and squash are some of the most popular foods grown in Maryland gardens. We've created new guides to help you identify and manage some of the most common problems when growing these in our climate. We highly recommend starting with disease-resistant cultivars for the best chances of success. Also, be mindful of pollination essentials! | |
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Growing Sweet Potatoes
HGIC Director Jon Traunfeld talks all about growing sweet potatoes in this month's episode of The Garden Thyme Podcast.
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Serviceberries & Saskatoons
Stanton Gill, UME Integrated Pest Management Specialist, offers tips for growing native serviceberries and saskatoons, on the Garden DC Podcast.
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Do you have a question about growing food in your yard, home, or community? Our Certified Professional Horticulturists, faculty, and Master Gardener Volunteers are ready to answer!
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Answers to recent questions: | |
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What could cause a tomato stem to become pinched and lose leaves?
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Is it bad to plant eggplant in the same location year after year?
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What can I do to manage plum curculio on my fruit trees?
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New Apple Varieties
Two new apples developed by UMD are heat-tolerant, blight-tolerant, low-maintenance, easy to harvest and, not least, delicious-tasting. Both were recently approved for patents.
Apples, Adapted
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Disease-Resistant Basil
Cultivars 'Devotion', 'Passion', 'Amazel' and 'Prospera' showed the highest resistance to Basil Downy Mildew in University of Maryland Extension trials.
Multi-Year Basil Trials
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UMD Campus Food Garden Tour
Saturday, June 24, 2023 | 9 am - 12 pm | $5
Community Learning Garden, College Park, MD
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Join experts from UMD's Campus Arboretum and Institute of Applied Agriculture for a tour of the food gardens around the UMD College Park campus. Finish the morning with a hands-on workshop in the Community Learning Garden. Please note that this program will require walking and working outdoors! If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Stephanie Pully in the State Master Gardener Office at pully@umd.edu or (410) 531-1754 before June 10, 2023. | |
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