Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
October 2022
Vegetable gardening information and events for October 2022
Between the Rows – A Guide to Vegetable Gardening:
Planting Cover Crops at the Potomac Overlook Organic Vegetable Garden
The Organic Vegetable Garden uses cover crops as transition plantings to improve soil texture, water infiltration, and fertility in the garden. Planting of cover crops begins in September at the OVG.
SHRUB: Viburnum nudum (Possum-haw)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Sometimes referred to as Wild Raisin because of its dark ripe fruit, this species is the most showy of the native Viburnums with lustrous leaves, multi-colored drupes, and stunning fall foliage. The shrub is indigenous to low woods, swamps, and bogs throughout the region.
Featured Glossary word: Cyme
October is Urban Agriculture Month
Join Friends of Urban Agriculture and partners to kickoff October Urban Agriculture Month!
PERENNIAL: Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s Root)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Elegant, adaptable, easy-to-grow Culver’s-root inhabits stream banks, moist meadows, and prairies in the eastern and central U.S. concentrated in the Great Lakes region. The striking, candelabra-like inflorescences add vertical structure, and the whorled leaves horizontal lines, to the landscape. Flowers attract a myriad of pollinators for about a month in summer.
Featured Glossary word: Whorl
