Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants
Online via Zoom WALearn proper soil and fertility management and how to grow healthy soil for healthy crops.
Growing Groceries: Growing the Onion and Beet Families
Online via Zoom WAThe onion (Allium) family includes garlic, leeks, and shallots as well. The beet (Chenopod) family includes everyone’s favorite, spinach, as well as chard and quinoa. Discussion of both families includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common diseases and pests.
Growing Groceries: Basics of Irrigation & Weed Management
Online via Zoom WAJoin us for a discussion of several types of irrigation products and their application in the food garden. In addition, we’ll focus on the details of installing drip irrigation and its application for gardens and plants.
Growing Groceries: Growing Fruit Trees in Western Washington
Online via Zoom WALearn the basics of growing fruit trees in Western Washington including factors such as site selection, rootstock and size, varieties, pollination, pruning, nutritional requirements and diseases/pests.
Growing Groceries: Growing the Pea/Bean Family & the Basics of Cover Cropping
Online via Zoom WAWe'll cover the Legume family which includes peas, beans (both green and dry), and lentils as well as the one member of the Solanaceous family that can be planted out early – potatoes! Discussion of all includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common diseases and pests.
Growing Groceries: Growing Berries in Western Washington
Online via Zoom WATopics include variety selection, soil preferences, fertility, pruning, pest and disease management, and cultural requirements for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and other small fruits.
Growing Groceries: Seed Starting and Growing Transplants
Online via Zoom WABeginning with how and when to start to seeds, to watering techniques, thinning and transplanting, you’ll learn how to save money and be successful in starting your vegetables from seed.
Growing Groceries: Growing on a small scale – in raised beds and containers
Online via Zoom WAOne of the best ways to maximize a small gardening area is to use containers, pots and raised beds as these offer flexibility and control over the growing environment, making them perfect for beginners or those with limited space.
Growing Groceries: Growing the Tomato & Potato Family
Online via Zoom WATopics covered include variety selection, cultural requirements, as well as the major disease and pests affecting these species.
Growing Groceries: Growing in Plastic Structures and Shoulder Season Crops
Online via Zoom WAAn 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.
Growing Groceries: Growing the Carrot, Lettuce, Corn, Broccoli & Rhubarb Families
Online via Zoom WAThe Carrot (Apiaceae) family also includes parsnips, celery and with many herbs like dill, fennel, and caraway. We will cover members of the lettuce (Asteraceae) family, as well as the corn (Poaceae) family, broccoli (Brassicaceae) family which includes broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower, mustard, Brussels sprouts and as well as the buckwheat (Polygonaceae) family which includes rhubarb and sorrel. Topics covered include variety selection, cultural requirements, and common pests and diseases affecting these families.
Growing Groceries: Growing the Cucumber, Squash and Melon Family
Online via Zoom WAThis 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!