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    • Suffolk Master Gardeners Plant Sale 2026!
    • Suffolk Master Gardener Seed Library
    • Seed Swap
    • Rain Barrel Workshop
    • Monthly Event – Growing A Kitchen Garden
    • Thank you for joining us in 2025! Check back soon for details about Pollinator Day 2026.
    • Ready, Set, Grow!
    • Therapeutic Gardening
  • Our Gardens
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Suffolk Extension Master Gardeners

We Exist to Serve You

Suffolk Extension Master Gardeners (Suffolk EMGs) volunteer their time and expertise to provide FREE horticultural education for residents of the City of Suffolk, Virginia. They provide programs for both youth and adults on a variety of topics like tree care, native plants, flower and vegetable gardening, pest and disease identification, integrated pest management, and more. Visit the programs, events, and demonstration garden pages to learn more!

Tidewater Agriculture Research & Extension Center group of gardeners
Group of Suffolk EMGs at the Tidewater Agriculture Research & Extension Center

Ask a Master Gardener

Getting help is easy!  Suffolk EMGs can be found at our office, on Facebook, by phone, email, and at various Suffolk farmers markets.  Take advantage of our Ask a Master Gardener program, where you can contact us from the comfort of your own home!  To submit a question, email us at SuffolkMG@gmail.com or call us at 757-514-4335.  When emailing, attach pictures of the plant, pest, or problem and provide a detailed description.  This will allow us to serve you.  A Suffolk EMG volunteer will respond in a timely manner.  Beginning in 2024, volunteers will be providing monthly office hours. Stop by our Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) classroom and obtain research-based assistance with your gardening questions and concerns.

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Today is Arbor day, a day dedicated to planting trees! 🌲

Will you be celebrating by planting any trees today or over the weekend?

Before you get started planting any trees take a minute to check out this video on how to plant a tree. 👇
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The Suffolk Master Gardeners are much like Santa’s elves. Like toys under the tree, our plants will be beautifully arranged and organized at the plant sale this Saturday at the Suffolk Earth and Arts Festival. Many months, hours and hands have ‘built’ what you will see! We look forward to sharing the fruits of our labor. We are like parents eagerly working and waiting for it to all come together for a spectacular day of fun, learning, sharing, education and community! This group truly encompasses ‘Earth Day’ every day! #suffolkmastergardeners #suffolkearthandarts #yessuffolk #keepsuffolkbeautiful ... See MoreSee Less

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We have a butterfly buffet at the plant sale!You can pick up host food for at least six of the caterpillars of butterflies you'll see in our area and we have plenty of nectar options, too. I have all of these plants in my yard, and you can see the caterpillars I've found feeding there. (The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail caterpillars have eluded me thus far...)

By the way, I found the baby monarchs just yesterday on milkweed from the same colony that we have'll at the sale at the Suffolk Earth and Arts Festival Saturday, April 25, 10:00 - 4:00, downtown Suffolk.

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If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services, or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact Andrea Slye, VCE City of Suffolk, at 757-514-4337/TDD 800-828-1120 during business hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. to discuss accommodations five days prior to the event.
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As part of Virginia Cooperative Extension, we offer gardening education to the public. There are 13 community gardens in Suffolk visit one today!

Thanks to the generosity of so many community swappers, we have a lot of seed left over from our seed swap in February, so we’re sharing it at the plant sale.
Stop by the Ask a Master Gardener Booth and help yourself to leftover vegetable and flower seed donated by participants at the swap! You can also “check out” seed from our traveling seed library, making its debut at the event.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Suffolk Master Gardener Plant Sale at the Earth and Arts Festival, from 10 - 4, next to the Mod Olive.

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Thanks to the generosity of so many community swappers, we have a lot of seed left over from our seed swap in February, so we’re sharing it at the plant sale. 
Stop by the Ask a Master Gardener Booth and help yourself to leftover vegetable and flower seed donated by participants at the swap! You can also “check out” seed from our traveling seed library, making its debut at the event.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Suffolk Master Gardener Plant Sale at the Earth and Arts Festival, from 10 - 4, next to the Mod Olive.

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