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• Week 1: Gardening Basics

  • Meet the teacher! - Intro to host and staff

  • Starting your seeds - Lecture

  • Amending garden beds - Activity

  • Planting seeds - Activity

  • Pruning tomatoes - Activity

  • Greenhouse orientation

  • Gardeners onsite to answer questions

• Week 2: Preparing your garden Space

  • Types of garden beds (and choosing) - Lecture

  • Spacing your plants - Lecture

  • Layering for amazing soil - Lecture

  • Controlling common pests - Lecture

  • Spacing plants worksheet - Activity

  • Setting traps for pests - Activity

  • Space and set plants/seeds - Activity

• Week 3: Composting and Mulching

  • Guest Speaker Greg Eddolls: Back to Eden Gardening - Lecture

  • Check, empty and fill traps - Activity

  • Pruning tomatoes - Activity

  • Additional activities TBD

• Week 4: Preparing your garden space 

  • Filling garden beds - Lecture

  • Amendments, there's so many! - Lecture

  • Soil pH, and why it matters - Lecture

  • Companion Planting - Lecture

  • Activities TBD

• Week 5: Fantastic Fungi!

  • Guest Speaker Kathryn Crew: Fantastic World of Fungi and how it makes amazing soil.

  • Activities TBD

• Week 6: Growing Seasons

  • Growing Seasons and Hardiness zones - Lecture

  • Days to harvest and how to use it - Lecture

  • Trellising and when you use it - Lecture

  • Garden Failures... and Successes!

  • Activities TBD

• Week 7: A few more pointers

  • Identifying resources you have - Lecture

  • Fighting the good fight... against weeds (or not?) - Lecture

  • Soil review, bringing it together - Lecture

  • Propagating plants from cuttings - Lecture

  • Activities TBD

• Week 8: Preserving

  • Introduction to canning - Lecture and demonstration

  • Activities TBD

  • Garden Upkeep and harvest - Activity