Beautify Your Landscape with Hardscape. Find the purpose of hardscaping and how it contributes to the beauty and ambiance of your space. Discover how hardscaping can add value, excitement, versatility, and tranquility to your property. Find out how any hardscaping elements can be installed in yards of all sizes.
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Join Us for our Annual Fall Festival and Yard Sale!
Date Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time 9AM – 1PM
Place VCE Portsmouth Office
105 Utah Street
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What are those spots on my tomato plants?
Can’t figure out what is eating your cucumbers? What is that weed? This lecture will focus on how to identify lawn and garden diseases and pests, then discuss methods to control them naturally.
We encourage you to bring samples of your lawn, yard and garden problems to discuss.
Date Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time 6:30—7:30 p.m.
Place Portsmouth Public Library
Churchland Branch
4934 High Street West
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Free gardening lecture on the importance of pollinators in your garden. We may take them and other pollinators like butterflies and bees for granted, however, they are vital to stable, healthy food supplies. It is our pollinators that are the key to the varied, colorful and nutritious diets we need. Bees are perfectly adapted to pollination, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. Join us for this fascinating lecture on pollinators!
Date Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Time 6:30—7:30 p.m.
Place Portsmouth Public Library
Churchland Branch
4934 High Street West
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Portsmouth Master Gardeners Impact at the Olde Towne Farmers Market
July 2024
In July, we continued to have a positive outreach to customers at the Olde Towne Farmers
Market. Although we missed one week due to storms and were blocked off for one afternoon
by people in line to buy tickets to the Commodore Theater, we still reached 327 people. July
20 was an especially good day when we talked to 189 people and were visited by 2 goats.
We introduced a new spinning wheel game that has proven quite popular. People spin the wheel and are asked a question based on the color they land on. The questions reflect the theme of the month’s library talk. Our first game was based on the July talk on butterflies and bees.
Barbara Byers, PMG Coordinator, Olde Towne Farmers Market
PMGA FIELD TRIP TO RYAN RESILIENCE LAB
Portsmouth Master Gardeners on a tour of the Elizabeth River Project’s Ryan Resilience Lab in July. Pictured with the group are VCE Agent Cyndi Wyskiewicz and our tour guide, Pam Northam.
We’re on the second-floor deck of the Lab facing Knitting Mill Creek in Norfolk. The Lab is the entire building and surrounding grounds. It’s a global model for coastal residents and businesses on how to respond to sea level rise. It’s a Living Lab with dozens of practical, eco-friendly ideas and solutions for our area on how to cope with climate change and its consequences.
-Glenda Richard, PMGA President
