May @ the Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG)
At Potomac Overlook Regional Park By Nancy Dowling, Master Gardener Please excuse me while I empty the water out of my Wellies! Geez. After 18 straight days of rain, it’s …
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Notes from the Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG)
In beautiful Potomac Overlook Regional Park Many people, when thinking about growing vegetables, associate spring with the beginning of effort. They would be wrong. The truth is that many of …
In The Garden: Growing Vegetables in Raised Beds
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), July 3rd: Many urban and suburban gardeners may believe that there is no room for vegetables in their yards. A successful vegetable garden is dependent on …
In The Garden: Grow Malabar for Greens in August
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), June 21st: Last summer we grew Malabar spinach for the first time. Malabar (also known as Indian spinach, Ceylon spinach, basella, or vine spinach) is not …
In the Garden: Look at our tomatoes—they are already setting fruit
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), June 2nd: For a second year in a row (yes, there is a pun here) we are growing our tomatoes on trellises. Based on research, tomatoes …
In the Garden: Ugh! We got Slugs
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), May 30th: The previous week in the organic vegetable garden we have been finding many, many slugs happily feeding on our lettuce, broccoli, strawberries and the …
In the Garden: Clean Out the Pests with Insecticidal Soap
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), May 17th: Flea beetles are going after our eggplant seedlings so we started applying insecticidal soaps in addition to using other methods of protection such as …
In the Garden: Strawberries are not for the Birds
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), May 12th: For the past week we have been harvesting beautiful strawberries from our patch in the MGNV Organic Vegetable Garden in Potomac Overlook Park. We …
In the Garden: Keeping Bugs at Bay
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), April 26th: Protect Your Seedlings. In the next couple weeks, most people will be planting seedlings. Protect the tender young plants from cutworms and slugs with …
In the Garden: Give your Seedlings Room to Grow
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), April 21st: As heartbreaking as it can be, you just got to yank out some of those cute little seedlings when they start sprouting in a …
In the Garden: It’s Hard to be a Seedling
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), April 19th: If you have been tenderly nurturing seedlings in your home for the past few weeks, you should begin thinking about “hardening off” your young …
Make the Most of Mulch
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), April 5th: We have been busy in the organic vegetable garden preparing our beds for all the little seedlings that are being nurtured under grow lights. …
In the Garden: The Plantin’ o’ the Greens
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), March 15th: While many people are focused on the wearin’ o’ the green this week, we have been working on the planting of the greens—lettuce, spinach, …
In the Garden: Raised Beds Raise Vegetables
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), March 6th: We added three raised beds to the garden this weekend.Raised beds are a great choice for growing vegetables for a variety of reasons. You …
In the Garden: Pea Planting Planning
Organic Vegetable Garden (OVG), February 15: Finally, we’ve had a little winter, but our thoughts are turning to planting—particularly peas (Pisum sativum) in the demonstration Organic Vegetable Garden at Potomac …