Friday, March 11, 2011

Gardening Workshops this Spring

This feels a bit funny to be posting this morning, given the freshly accumulated snow outside, but I wanted to let you know that I'm running a few gardening workshops this spring - 1 at little city farm, and 2 in response to the requests of neighours and CSA members. Here's the 'deets:

Seedling Starting
Saturday March 19th 1-3:00
Little City Farm (508 Duke St.)
Learn the details of starting successful seedlings at home, including best starter soils, lights, watering, trouble-shooting, transplanting, and where to source organic seeds.
Cost: $15. Sign up through Little City Farm

Vegetable Garden Planning
Saturday April 16th, 2-4:30, Willow St. Waterloo
Ever wondered how often you should sow salad mix or transplant lettuce? When you should seed beets and carrots for a fall crop? Which crops you should just plant once vs multiple times each season? This int/adv workshop will focusing on aspects of vegetable succession planning and cover some questions of companion planting and appropriate yard-scale cover crops as well. Lots of time for Q&A. Take your gardening to a new level!
Cost: $15. Sign up at info@fertilegroundcsa.com

Intro to Organic Vegetable Gardening
Sunday May 1, 2-4:30, Dekay St. Kitchener
A this beginner-level workshop we'll be building a double-dug bed from scratch in Lisa & Jay's backyard! This workshop is all about bed preparation, intensive planting techniques and basic organic growing/maintenance methods.
Cost $15. Sign up at info@fertilegroundcsa.com

Seedling Sale
Saturday May 21, 9-12, Little City Farm
This isn't a workshop but it's a great place to get your garden seedlings! All organically-grown.

Also - here's a publication put out by Canadian Organic Growers that you might find helpful: The Organic Backyard: A guide to applying organic farming practices to your home or community garden.

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