May - Planting Vegetables and Flowers

May 3rd - Kids day with Oak Springs Garden Foundation and the Importance of Soil

Easy soil guide for kids https://www.soils4kids.org/about/

This is a longer publication on soil from Virginia Tech, but the first few pages contain some basics of soil composition and structure https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/CSES/cses-183/4H-851.pdf

May 10th - Companion Planting - Laying it all out

Check out this detailed companion planting guide from the Master Gardeners in Louisa County:  https://www.louisacvmg.org/_files/ugd/a87666_1594de0ad63841b98b59eb001a482126.pdf

Cool, detailed companion planting chart: https://ericarascon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pauls-Companion-Planting-Guide.jpg

An article with several sample layouts of companion planting gardens to give you inspiration: https://www.almanac.com/planning-companion-planting-garden

May 17th - Planning & Planting your vegetable garden

Virginia Tech’s super- handy Vegetable Planting Guide with planting and harvest dates for 37 different vegetables!

https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/426/426-331/426-331.html

May 24th - Container Planting

Information for Growing Vegetables in Containers from Virginia Tech

https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/426/426-336/426-336.html

May 31st - Growing a wildflower meadow/garden

From Piedmont Master Gardeners - How to turn lawn into meadow https://piedmontmastergardeners.org/starting-a-native-wildflower-meadow/

And the University of New Hampshire Extension https://extension.unh.edu/resource/planting-pollinators-establishing-wildflower-meadow-seed-fact-sheet