Growing your own food has seen a revival in recent years and this series of workshops will equip you with all the information necessary to grow a wide range of highly nutritious, organic vegetables at home. The course will take you from the planning and seed starting through the harvest. Participants will be given extensive handouts to take home to get them started.
April 21
Garden Preparation and Planting
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9:30-11:30 AM
Cultivating the soil and all the support systems for your plants. Topics include tools and techniques, irrigation, creating a raised bed, container gardening, demo planting peas, spinach, lettuce, potatoes, mulching and much more.Maximum: 15 participants
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Members $25 Non-Member $28
June 9
Keeping the Garden Healthy and Thriving
9:30-11:30 AM
Minimizing weeds and insect damage. We will cover weeding tools and techniques, nurse crops and cover crops, disease control with an emphasis on observation and prevention. Also, good biological and organic controls for disease. Plus a bonus segment on when to plant for a late fall harvest. Planting some vegetables in July will yield a great fall harvest of many cold tolerant veggies.Maximum: 15 participants
Members $25 Non-Member $28
Other Gardening Workshops
May 19 Small Fruits
9:00-10:00 AM
Learn about soil preparation and care of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.This will be a hands-on workshop where we prepare the soils and plant each kind of fruit. Also, learn which plants to purchase and how to rejuvenate and prune them to have years of luscious berries.Maximum: 15 participants
Members $15 Non-Member $18
May 19
Flower Gardening
11:00-12:00 AM
Create a small garden that produces a bounty of flowers. Learn what flowers do well on Cape Cod and which are best for cutting. Learn easy soil preparations to enhance flower growth and organic methods. Also we will show you harvesting practices and methods for long lasting cut flowers.Maximum: 15 participants
Members $15 Non-Member $18
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