Spring Into Summer

Updated 1/2024

Learn about how to wake up your garden in this class, which provides information about what to do for your garden and landscape between March and August. This class topic is part of the Horticultural Skills priority of the Master Gardener program. 

If you enjoyed this class, please join us for another. Current and upcoming classes are posted on our website.

Class Handouts

• Slide Presentation (Slide print-out)

• Participant Class Handout

Related Handouts

• How to Compost (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)

• Compost Bin Designs (Cornell Cooperative Extension)

• Create a Habitat for Stem-Nesting Native Bees (Heather Holm)

• Gardening for Butterflies and Pollinators (Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)

• Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors (Rutgers: State University of New Jersey)

• Seeding & Transplanting (University of California-Davis)

• Planting and Harvesting Times for Garden Vegetables (Iowa State University Extension & Outreach)

• How to Plant a Containerized Tree (MN DNR)

• How to Plant a Bareroot Tree (MN DNR)

• How to Plant a Balled-and-Burlapped Tree (MN DNR)

• Diagnosing Plant Problems (Virginia State University Cooperative Extension) 

Online Resources

PRO-TIP: Google “site:edu Compost” (or site:gov) for research-based advice 

• Yard & Garden (University of Minnesota Extension) 

• Ask A Master Gardener (University of Minnesota Extension) 

• Soil Testing Laboratory (University of Minnesota Extension) 

• Ramsey County Yard Waste Sites

• University of Minnesota Extension: Composting in Home Gardens 

• Flowers for Pollinators (University of Minnesota Extension) 

• Pollinator Resources (MN Department of Natural Resources)

• Planting a Vegetable Garden (University of Minnesota Extension) 

• Is this plant a weed? (University of MN Extension)

• Weed ID & Management (University of WI-Madison)