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Continue reading →: A Closer Look at the Victory Garden of the 21st Century
Victory Gardens Historically, Victory Gardens are used to supplement the food supply during difficult times. The idea behind our 21st century Victory Garden (Demo Garden beds 1 & 7) came from our need to conserve water in the garden and our desire to share the harvest. Master Gardeners, tending to…
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Continue reading →: A Closer Look…
Harvesting is underway in the Demo Garden! Radish and lettuce are cool-season vegetables, traditionally planted for spring or fall harvest. Vegetables featured in this post are selected radish and lettuce varieties (days to maturity) from the Victory Garden and New Varieties beds, 1 & 5, respectively. Radish – Raphanus sativus:…
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Continue reading →: 2025 Demo Garden Bed Plans
Hello, Demo Garden followers! I’m Abbey Draut, and I stepped into the role of Horticulture Agent for Food Crops in late 2023. Thank you for your patience as I got settled—last year was a whirlwind of learning, and the blog took a brief pause. But I’m excited to share that…
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Continue reading →: 2023 Demo Garden Bed PlansSince we just started planting the Demonstration Garden this week, it seemed like it was time to actually share our garden plans for the year! We continue to battle root knot nematodes in the soil of our beds, so many of our garden plans are with those management plans in…
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Continue reading →: A Closer Look: Bed 6 Plans & MoreThis is the last of our detailed bed plan posts, and because it took so long to finish this series, we even have pictures to share of what the garden looks like all planted and grown! In this garden we are reprising something we did about 5 years ago –…
Gardening & Growing in the Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden!
The Demonstration Garden
The Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardeners’ Demonstration Garden is on the grounds of the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center.
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7001 W 21st Street N
Wichita, KS 67205
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