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February 2024
Growing Groceries: Raising the Tomato & Potato Family
Topics covered include variety selection, cultural requirements, as well as the major disease and pests affecting these species.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Growing in Hoop Houses, Cold Frames, and Small Greenhouses
An unheated greenhouse or cold frame can be used to grow greens during winter, start warm season annuals, propagate landscape perennials, and shelter frost tender plants through the winter chill. Besides greens like spinach and lettuce, you can grow cold-tolerant veggies such as cabbage and broccoli in a cold frame or hoop house.
Find out more »March 2024
Growing Groceries: Raising the Cucumber, Squash and Melon Family
This class in the Growing Groceries series will focus on growing all things Cucurbit! From luscious melons to giant pumpkins, summer squash to zucchini and winter squash we'll cover all these amazing vegetables and cucumbers too!
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Raising the Carrot, Lettuce, & Corn Families
The Carrot (Apiaceae) family also includes parsnips and celery along with many herbs like dill, fennel, and caraway. Puget Sound's mild climate makes it a great place to grow members of the lettuce (Asteraceae) family just about year-round. In addition, you’ll learn to raise sweet corn worthy of bragging rights when we cover members of the corn (Poaceae) family.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Basics of Seed Saving
We’ll cover the basic perennial and annual herbs used in so many sweet and savory dishes along with the not-so-common ones like epazote and lemongrass. In addition, we’ll talk about some of the easy to grow tea herbs like chamomile, catnip, hyssop.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Pests, Predators, and Pollinators: An Introduction to IPM
Basics of managing disease, insect, and weed pests in the home garden. Discussion covers a variety of techniques including prevention, cultural practices like row covers, mulching, and more. Weed management practices include using mulches, hardscaping, and different cultivation techniques.
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