Classes
We are charging a minimum $5 fee for all classes to discourage no-shows. To register and pay the fee you follow the registration link after the class description.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our classes will be offered on-line using a cloud-based service, WebEx. You will be sent an email containing a link that will allow you to join the online class ten minutes before the session begins. To assure that the class is not interrupted with unwanted noise, we ask that you mute your microphone until you wish to ask a question or make a comment at the end of the class. Since this is the first time we are attempting to hold classes online, we ask for your understanding and goodwill as we undertake this adventure.
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Planting and Growing Annual Flowers - the blooming truth
This class focuses on eight annual flowers that can be direct seeded outdoors to produce flowers that year. Half are frost tolerant and can be planted as soon as the gardens open and the other four should be planted after all danger of frost is past. All make good cut flowers.
Students will receive 8 seed packets containing 20 to 50 seeds of each variety, along with planting and care instructions. The eight flowers are:
larkspur, nigella, bachelor button, calendula
zinnia, marigold, cosmos, tithonia (Mexican sunflower)
Instructor is Kirk Jones.
Registration fee: $10. Register here. Class limit: 10. Please check the website to read about any changes to the course [eg: time, location].
Tips and Techniques 2: Planting Your Vegetable Garden
Experienced Project Grow gardeners, many of them master gardeners and composters, will share tips and techniques that have helped them to garden successfully. If you are a novice gardener, or even an experienced one, attend this class to learn how to garden more effectively and efficiently in 2016.
Topics will range widely, to cover problems often encountered by gardeners at the start of the season, and will include, but are not limited to, the following: preparing beds for planting, choosing the right tool for the task at hand, amending the soil, decoding seeding and planting instructions, selecting appropriate staking methods and materials, using row covers effectively, watering wisely, preventing weeds, and the like. Class will be open to questions and individual problems.
Registration is required. Walk-ins are welcome.
Weedy Lawn and Garden Salad
Have you been throwing Chenopodium album onto the compost heap all this time?! That’s lambsquarters - spinach’s wildly nutritious cousin. Weeding the garden becomes a delight when you realize that so many “weeds” are actually superfoods! Join Shawn Severance and the wild food foragers to learn about all sorts of garden weeds that can impart delicious flavor and nutrition to your spring salads. Gardeners, please bring your herbs and greens! We will forage the wild greens and make a Gardener meets Forager salad for all to share. In partnership with Project Grow and Will Forage for Food.
Shawn Severance is the Parks Naturalist at Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation
Please register here. Fee: $0. Walk-ins welcome.
