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Course: Part 1 - 2027 Orange County Master Gardener Training Course, Section: Week 8 - Vegetable Gardening
Week 8 - Vegetable Gardening
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Week 8 - Vegetable Gardening
Monday, February 19, 2024
Topics of the Week:
- Vegetable Gardening
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A 48-page manual that includes the following sections:
- Plans and Preparations
- Planting
- Growing More with Less Space
- One Garden Plot: Three Garden Seasons
- Caring for Your Vegetables During the Growing Season
- Diseases, Insects and Weeds
- Storing Vegetables
- What You Should Know about Asparagus through Watermelons
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This planting guide includes a list of when to seed commonly grown vegetables inside. Although the guide was developed for Rockland County, it holds true for Orange County as well.
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This web forum provides an avenue for gardeners to share knowledge. Gardeners visit the site and report what vegetable varieties perform well – and not so well – in their gardens. Other gardeners visit to view the variety ratings and read the reviews to decide which might work well for them.
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Most of you have spent time toiling in a vegetable garden. Take a few minutes to think your experiences growing vegetables in conjunction with all of the information presented this week. Pick one concept that was presented that either surprised you or validated your own vegetable gardening experience.
- What concept did you pick?
- Why did this concept stand out?
- Did it challenge your understanding?
- Was it a completely new concept?
- Did it validate your experiences?
- How will this information impact your gardening in the future?
- How will you convey this gardening concept, idea or fact to others?
- Vegetable Gardening