Derwood Demo Garden Update

This exciting photo shows the Montgomery County MG Demo Garden: Vegetable Division, as it looked yesterday morning (after we'…

Leafy greens, new and overwintered

I dropped by the demo garden this morning and found last fall's radicchio growing with spring energy, not to mention consider…

Carroll County Demonstration Garden Springs Forward into the 2012 Gardening Season

One of several raised bed gardens at the Public Demonstration Garden ammended with organic compost Meg Gross plants leafy green…

New blog for Frederick County MGs!

The Frederick County Master Gardeners are working on a new demonstration garden that will be full of vegetables, fruits, herbs an…

It's Official!- 2012 is The Year of Leafy Greens

Leafy greens - nutritious, easy to grow, and versatile. We love 'em, so University of Maryland Extension's Grow It Eat It…

The roots of the garden

This is the first of my planned posts on successful crops I'm going to revisit in the demo garden next year.  I thought I'…

You see that bright thing in the sky?

It's called the sun.  Remember that?  Don't look right at it. The disappointing (to me, at least) 2011 vegetable growing …

The failure of one thing

Hyacinth beans at Monticello Last Saturday, I had a wonderful time attending the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello , where …

Reminder - This Saturday September 24, Carroll County Sweetpotato Expo

Saturday, September 24, 2011 2-4PM UMC Core Center Demonstration Food Garden (Behind Shipley Arena at Carroll Agricult…

Balloons in the demo garden

The challenge: MG Barbara Dunn needed to update portions of her map of the Derwood Demo Garden .  She often uses publicly availab…

Ooh, she really DID!

Today was demo garden workday at Derwood, and I was anxiously waiting to see what happened as a result of the hurricane.  Well, o…

So how's that geographic-themed garden going, hm?

I haven't written much this year about my Vegetables Around the World theme for the Derwood Demo Garden vegetable beds.  The …

Announcing - Carroll County Grow It Eat It - Sweetpotato Festival - September 24, 2011 from 2 to 4PM

Pictured is Master Gardener Intern Henry Lysy inspecting this years amazing sweetpotato patch. Where: Public Demonstrati…

Welcome to the garden!

As you probably know, I blog about the Montgomery County Demonstration Garden in Derwood. And this is the post I need to remember…

What's a vegetable garden worth?

This year we set aside a 10x10 foot plot at the Derwood Demo Garden as the Grow It Eat It Garden. We planted "typical"…

Sweet potatoes

One of the best parts of this year's Harvest Festival for us at the Derwood demo garden (besides having enough mouse melons t…