Save the Date: The 2026 Home Gardening Webinar Series Returns in January

The award-winning Home Gardening Webinar Series returns January 8, 2026.

Join us every Thursday at 6 p.m. central time, from January 8 through March 12. This weekly webinar series highlights a variety of topics for home gardeners.

Participants can choose to join live on Zoom or Facebook Live. All webinars are recorded and are available after the live stream ends on Facebook or at a later date on the Iowa Master Gardener YouTube Channel.

Preview our lineup now; Registration starts in December.

January 8: Gardening for Wildlife

January 15: Recommended Vegetable Cultivars for Iowa

January 22: Growing Great Garlic

January 29: Right Perennial, Right Place

February 5: Green Roofs for Home Gardeners

February 12: Do-it-Yourself Soil Health Monitoring for Your Garden

February 19: Why Choose Native Plants?

February 26: Growing Cut Flowers

March 5: From Sight to Scent - Selecting Species for Sensory Spaces

March 12: A Place for Pollinators

This year, we'll be welcoming back some of our favorite speakers from past years, including Aaron Steil, Cindy Haynes, Dan Fillius, and Marshall McDaniel. New to our lineup this year are speakers from the ISU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Colorado State University, ISU Department of Landscape Architecture, and commercial growers in Iowa.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach educational programs are supported by federal, state, and county funds, as well as grants, contracts, user fees, and donations. If you value this series and want to support our programming, visit the Iowa State University Foundation to make a contribution to our program fund. 

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