Gardening at Elevation, WMCG

Class #1 Planning Your Garden -- organic gardening, companion planting, crop rotation, and succession planting. 

 

Class #2 Healthy Soil -- composting, vermicomposting, fertilizing, lasagna beds, and testing soil for nutrients. 

Class #3 Planting Your Garden -- protecting young plants, tomato planting and tomato transplanting demonstration. 

Class #4 Watering -- different methods of watering to include special topics of, backyard orcharding, Hügelkultur, and square foot gardening.

Class #5 Weeding, Pests, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) -- includes an overview of weeds in the garden and the insect pests that invade, how to deal with garden pests without using chemicals.

Class #6 - Harvesting and Seed Saving -- includes saving seeds and food preservation (canning, pickling, dehydration, and freeze drying).