from the valley’s top Tomato grower – Sabrina Boileau
part 4. End of season care and harvest
– Season extension with a greenhouse
– Harvesting tomatoes
– End of season care
– Feeding back your soil
– Review of how your tomatoes did/are doing. Show us pictures of your plant and harvest!
– Tomato seed exchange
Date: Tuesday, August 8
Time: 6:30 – 8:00
Location: Groundswell greenhouse
Cost: Note: Maximum of 14 people. Members $20. Non members: $30
Note: when booking for all 4 – Members – $60/Non Members $100; see part 1 for tickets
Facilitator: Sabrina Boileau, a passionate expert on bio-intensive agriculture
Things to Bring: your garden journal (if you don’t have one you can buy one at the garden for $10), garden gloves, dress in layers it will be warm in the greenhouse and then as night sets it will get cooler, water bottle)
from the valley’s top Tomato grower – Sabrina Boileau
*series of 4 can be booked individually or save $ when booking together – Members – $60/Non Members $100
1. Early growth stages and seedlings start – Types of tomatoes: choosing your perfect tomato!
2. Transplanting and dealing with common pest
3. Middle season care and pruning
4. End of season care and harvest
part 1. Early growth stages and seedlings start – Types of tomatoes: choosing your perfect tomato!
– Timing for greenhouse planting vs. garden planting
– How to be successful when starting tomato seedlings
– How to care for young tomato plants
Date: Tuesdays, March 14
Time: 6:30 – 8:00
Location: Groundswell greenhouse
Cost: Note: Maximum of 14 people. Members $20. Non members: $30
Note: when booking for all 4 – Members – $60/Non Members $100
Facilitator: Sabrina Boileau, a passionate expert on bio-intensive agriculture
Things to Bring: your garden journal (if you don’t have one you can buy one at the garden for $10), garden gloves, dress in layers it will be warm in the greenhouse and then as night sets it will get cooler, water bottle)
Gardening Basics Workshop Series
Ensure Success
A WORK AND LEARN SERIES
Get your hands dirty working in the greenhouse while you learn!
Opportunity for gardeners to be gentler on the earth while harvesting more nutritious food…
Part 3. Transplanting and Ongoing Care
- Review your finalized garden plan for appropriate plant placement Design a Transplant system that works for you – you will actually be transplanting plants in the greenhouse.
- Labeling seedlings
- Determine when you will put your own transplants in your garden.
- Understand the ongoing care and feeding of your new crop.
- Insects the good, the bad and the ugly – identify, discuss impact and solutions.
- Learn to identify other garden problems just by looking – mold, slugs, drought, chemical imbalance.
Date: April 25, 2023
Time: 6:00 – 8:30
Location: Groundswell Community Greenhouse
Cost: Members (Regular and Premium) – $25.00 Non Members $30.00
What to bring: Your Garden Journal, your garden gloves, trowel, water bottle, photos of bedding plants you started at home.
***NOTE: if you book all 4 programs in this series the total cost for members is $80.00, a savings of $20. Ticket available in part 1
