Workshop: Early Spring Vegetable Gardening

Take advantage of our mild California Bay Area climate to get your vegetable garden up and productive for the season!  Why wait for summer to start harvesting your own healthy and organic produce? 

This class will teach you what's possible to grow and pick in early spring.  You will be able to plant and sow in February and March, then start to pick your bounty in April.  Learn sustainable organic techniques that will let you seamlessly integrate your early spring vegetable garden into your summer plantings of warm-weather lovers.

We will discuss lettuces, spinaches, chards, bok choy, tatsoi, carrots, turnips, radishes, snow and shelling peas, mustard, mizuna, cress, kale, and other quick-growing veg that will tide you over til the warm weather hits.  This class differs from our Winter Vegetable Gardening Class, as it only concentrates on quick, cool-weather plants that you will be able to put in now and harvest in the spring.

Every student gets to sow a flat of seeds to take home to tend along with instruction on how to grow them out.

In addition to the culture requirements of each of the vegetables, the topics covered in class will include: bed preparation, heat and light requirements, frost control, germination tricks, companion planting, organic pest control, fertilizing, and harvesting techniques. 

ALL CLASSES ARE HELD RAIN OR SHINE!

ALL CLASSES REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION, EVEN FOR GIFT CERTIFICATE HOLDERS

February 10, 2013 (Sunday) 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.  $69 plus small $10 materials fee  << Click to register (gift certificate holders register by emailing loveapplefarm@gmail.com)

If the class date doesn't work for you or if the class is full, email us at loveapplefarms@gmail.com to request another workshop date.

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Comments

[Mo McKenna]

This class looks great!
" let you seamlessly integrate your early spring vegetable garden into your summer plantings of warm weather lovers."
That's just what I need to learn!!
I do really well with hot weather plants, but the early season has me stumped.

[Donna Richeson]

Hi Cynthia,

The Spring Vegetable Class today was just great -- so packed with good basic information and tips. Even though I took this class last year, I still came home today with more tips to help me this season. Your communication skills and the opportunity for hands-on participation to get our veggie flats going always creates great enthusiasm on my part. Thanks so much. Donna Richeson

[Elena Lawson]

Your class was fabulous!!!! I will definitely be joining you for more classes. I look forward to growing a great garden this year.

Thanks again.

Elena

[Doug Whitmore]

I'm excited to take this class in January. I've done the tomato class to great success and the chicken class taught me what I needed to know.

[Kim Thompson]

Hi Cynthia,
I signed up for the Jan. class and it will be my first visit to Love Apple Farm. I am a local teacher and I can't wait to be a "student" this day and learn from you. I will use the knowledge I learn in our life-lab this spring.
See you in January!

[Jessica Ridgeway]

This photo is gourgeous!

[Mary Ellen Cuykendall]

Thanks Cynthia for a fun and educational class on early spring gardening. I'm enjoying watching the seeds we planted grow-and I thought I couldn't grow from seed! I'll be back for another class soon.

[Kim Gray]

This class was great! My second class, and I learned so much more. This is my first winter garden, and I absolutely loved it, so I had to have an early spring one as well. My boyfriend is actually eating kale -- KALE -- and liking it! I'm putting in another bed this summer (making 4 beds), and I see possibly one more in my future as well. :)

[Jeannie Whoely]

Hi Cynthia, I took the winter vegetable gardening class from you last summer and am harvesting a bounty of beautiful foods from my January garden! Turnips are my new favorite vegetable - the greens are great stewed or in salads when young, the turnips are a great low-carb addition to braises and the plants seem very resistant to pests! Now my lawn is scared....it will be raised beds before too long. Someday I hope you will teach a class on the business of being a farmer - I will feed my family this year and make some money selling my extra produce. Cheers. Jeannie