Early Spring Vegetable Gardening Class | Love Apple Farm | Santa Cruz | Feb 25

Description

If you are a beginner gardener, this is a can't miss. - Maya / Epicuring

This class will teach you what's possible to grow and pick in early spring.  You will be able to plant and sow in February and March, then start to pick your bounty in April.  Learn sustainable organic techniques that will let you seamlessly integrate your early spring vegetable garden into your summer plantings of warm-weather lovers.

Every student gets to sow a flat of seeds to take home to tend along with instruction on how to grow them out. You will discuss lettuces, spinaches, chards, bok choy, tatsoi, carrots, turnips, radishes, snow and shelling peas, mustard, mizuna, cress, kale, and other quick-growing veg that will tide you over til the warm weather hits.

In addition to the culture requirements of each of the vegetables, the topics covered in class will include: bed preparation, heat and light requirements, frost control, germination tricks, companion planting, organic pest control, fertilizing, and harvesting techniques

$75 Advance registration is required.

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