| Container Gardening |
| Container gardening is done in containers. It is a way of gardening that allows you to grow your own vegetables and herbs in containers. It can be for anyone, but is especially for those who live in apartments or those who wish to have a garden in a small area. All the gardening is done above ground in containers. The workshop teaches how to create proper draining and nourishing soil, what size containers to use, composting, how to fertilize, and tips about harvesting. Container gardening is the same as regular gardening, but is a contained fashion. |
| Composting is a practice of transforming your leftover fruits and vegetables, their peels, and some other natural materials into compost, which is a substance when added to other soil amendments and soil makes a bedding that is very nutritious for most plants. |
| Composting is actually a natural event that is done in nature, when leaves and fruits fall from the trees they compost and when plants die they compost as well. If you will be growing herbs and vegetables in your containers than having organic properly produced compost is essential to the mineral, vitamin, and over all integrity of the food you will be eating. |
| In this workshop you will learn how to plant your seeds in your containers. You will learn how to start your seeds in small containers and then to graduate theminto larger containers. Topics covered will include proper conditions and environments for seed starting, proper soils and amendments for seed starting, and the variations depending on seed. Also we will cover in the workshop how to propagate plants from cuttings from other plants. |
| In the picture to the left the students are sowing the seeds of papayas. Starting seeds in containers allows the seeds to be able to be moved and allows you to control their growing conditions, thus creating generally stronger healthier plants |
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| Cost of Workshop is $100 for 3 Hour Workshopp |
| Composting is something that needs to be learned whether you are doing gardening in the ground, above the ground in beds, or in smaller containers and pots. It is how you create your own food for the plants that you will be growing. If done properly you will insure for healthy nourished plants. |
| Many do not know that they can have their own farm in containers. Most vegetables and herbs can be grown in containers. |
| Growing your own Vegetables and herbs in Containers: |
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| What is Container Gardening? |
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| Container Gardening |