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Tomato Workshop Series – part 3 of 4 rescheduled

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from the valley’s top Tomato grower – Sabrina Boileau
tomatoespart 3. Middle season care and pruning
– Fertilizing your tomato plant/sign of nutrient deficiencies in your tomato plants/nutrition needs for tomato plants
– Pruning: when, why and how
– Trellising your tomato plant
– Health assessment of your tomato plants
– Pollination
Date: Tuesday, June 27 – rescheduled
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)

Gardening Basics Workshop Series 4 – Composting and Pruning

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gardeningGarden Basics – a little social chit chat before the workshop begins. So nice to find your Tribe.

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…
gardeningPart 4. Composting and Pruning

  • Composting can be as simple or as exciting as you want to make it. We will explore the many ways to compost. Make compost tea and have a tea party for the plants and look at the role of worms in composting.
  • Pruning your vegetables and tomatoes is critical to a good harvest – learn when and how to do it to increase your yield and maximize your crop. You will actually prune tomatoes in the greenhouse.

gardeningDate: May 30, 2023
Time: 6:00-8:30
Workshop site: Groundswell Greenhouse
Cost: Members (Regular and Premium) – $25.00 Non Members $30.00

Supported by: Groundswell Network Society and Home Hardware
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