Starting Your Vegetable Garden from Seed

Starting Your Vegetable Garden from Seed

Description: Learn how to start seeds now for spring planting! Master Gardeners will discuss favorites like tomatoes and peppers, as well as many other spring and summer vegetables. Topics will include timing of when to start seeds, whether to start in containers or sow directly in the ground, crop rotation, succession planting, what kind of soil to use, and how to avoid common problems. There will be time for questions and shared discussion. Monthly planting calendars will be available to attendees. The Library will have free seeds to share.

UC Master Gardener Presenters:

• Carolyn Dorsch has always had a deep admiration and affinity for all plants, marveling at their incredible ability to survive and thrive in a myriad of conditions. She enjoys seeing plants in their natural habitat, in all seasons, and applies her knowledge of how California natives grow in the wild in order to cultivate them in the garden. An avid vegetable gardener, Carolyn plants a garden every year and enjoys learning new techniques and trying out new varieties. Additionally, she is a Master Composter and a beginner beekeeper.
• Naomi Mier is a Master Gardener (2020) and Master Composter (2020). She enjoys all aspects of vegetable gardening: seed saving, seed starting, growing, harvesting, preserving and sharing. She gardens in raised beds, containers and in-ground. Naomi is responsible for the pepper and eggplant varieties for the Spring Garden Market.

Registration is not required.