Talk about a busy month!
The Garden Shed
A Community Newsletter published by the
Piedmont Master Gardeners
May 2025 - Vol.11, No.5
Mosquito Control
Eliminate mosquitoes but not beneficial insects.
Upcoming Events
Lots of learning opportunities!
Invasives Watch
Pull garlic mustard before it sets seed!
Firewise Landscaping
Incorporating fire safety concepts into home landscaping can help keep homes safer from unexpected fires.
The Edible Garden in May
May is the time to harvest cool weather crops while planting summer crops. Let’s get busy.
A Bee Die-off in February 2025
What we know, what we don’t know, and what we can do.
The Garden Shed
A community newsletter published by the Piedmont Master Gardeners each month.
Piedmont Master Gardeners has published The Garden Shed monthly since January 2015. All articles are accessible full text in our archives. There you can browse or read entire issues. To find an article on a specific topic, use the search tool below.
We — the writers of The Garden Shed — would like to introduce ourselves and our free online community newsletter. We are members of the Piedmont Master Gardeners, which simply means we have all been trained to share the scientific expertise of Virginia Tech and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. More important, we are your friends and neighbors with a passion for gardening – and learning more about it. Each month we will communicate the tasks that we are performing in our ornamental gardens, edible gardens and lawns. Each month’s newsletter will also contain a featured topic, ranging from growing roses to preventing pests and diseases in your vegetable garden, plus a recipe for something fresh from the garden.
For comments, questions or suggested topics for future Garden Shed articles contact us at: garden-shed@piedmontmastergardeners.org