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SUMMER 2022

Food Gardening Right Now:

Growing heat-tolerant greens Malabar spinach, Swiss chard, leafy amaranth, and callaloo are among several heat-tolerant greens that can expand your palette of flavors from the summer vegetable garden.  Maryland Grows Blog: Growing heat tolerant greens

Tomato disease prevention - early blight This is a common fungal disease that also infects eggplant. Better air movement means less disease, so prune off the lowest 3-5 leaf branches of tomato plants. HGIC Website: Early blight

What questions do you have about designing and maintaining your landscape? Our team of Certified Professional Horticulturists, Master Gardeners, and faculty is here to help! Our goal is to give you the best science-based information available so you can succeed with food gardening (or any garden topic) this season. This service is free and available to all Maryland residents. Check out recent questions submitted to Ask Extension:

My grass is turning brown and I’m not sure why. Answer on Ask Extension

My Nana Lutea Dwarf Hinoki Cypress is browning. Is this just sun scorch? It is located in a full sun area in a raised bed.  Answer on Ask Extension

Practice Climate-Smart Gardening brochure New! Brochure #8 in the "Protect the Chesapeake Bay" series lays out steps you can take to reduce the carbon footprint of your landscape, build healthy soils to store carbon, and manage stormwater runoff around your home.  Download PDF: Climate-Smart Gardening

Select native shrubs for your landscape Add beauty and diversity to your home garden by planting native shrubs this fall. For ideas, check out new plant profiles on our website: Northern bayberry, mapleleaf viburnum, red chokeberry, and more! HGIC Website: Native shrubs

Put the BITE on mosquitoes before they bite you! Watch and learn from "The Bug Guy," Dr. Michael J. Raupp. YouTube: Watch video

The Garden Thyme Podcast

Tune in from your garden! This award-winning podcast from the University of Maryland Extension brings you great conversations on hot topics in the garden. Listen to recent episodes on native bees with Sam Droege, abiotic disorders of plants, container gardening, and more! Listen to the podcast

Upcoming Free Webinars:

IPM for Backyard and Community Vegetable and Fruit Growing Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 | 9 am - 12 pm | Virtual over Zoom | Free Join Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist and HGIC Director Jon Traunfeld to learn the latest organic IPM techniques for your fruit and vegetable gardens!  Zoom - sign up for webinar Preserve Your Harvest Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 | 9 am - 12 pm | Virtual over Zoom | Free Learn from UME Family & Consumer Sciences Senior Agent Shauna Henley how to properly clean, preserve, or even ferment your surplus veggies!  Zoom - sign up for webinar

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