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, 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 harvest 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, snow and shelling peas, mustard, mizuna, cress, kale, arugula, chrysanthemum greens, broccoli raab, turnips, radishes, 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, organic pest control, fertilizing, and harvesting techniques. This class is taught by farmer, Cynthia Sandberg and held at Love Apple Farms. Click here to read reviews of Cynthia's classes.
ALL CLASSES ARE HELD RAIN OR SHINE IN OUR LARGE GREENHOUSE AND REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION.
January 28, 2024 (Sunday) 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. $89 plus small materials fee of $10 <<< Click on date to register (gift certificate holders register by emailing us at [email protected])
NOTE: RESCHEDULED FROM JAN 21 DUE TO STORM
If the class date doesn't work for you or if the class is full, email us at [email protected] to request another workshop date or to be added to the waitlist.
EXAMPLE TRAY OF SEEDLINGS SOWN DURING CLASS (3 weeks growth):
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Cynthia,
I built my planter beds as you taught us in the class, added the watering system and I'm growing my best garden ever! Great class and your watering system approach means I'll never have to change the system that feeds my garden beds again. I really enjoyed the class and enjoyed meeting you as well. - Cassie
Posted by: Cassandra Maas | June 29, 2020 at 05:09 PM
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.
Posted by: Mo McKenna | November 16, 2010 at 05:44 AM
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
Posted by: Donna Richeson | February 13, 2010 at 08:57 PM
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
Posted by: Elena Lawson | January 25, 2010 at 08:11 AM
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.
Posted by: Doug Whitmore | January 04, 2010 at 12:27 PM
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!
Posted by: Kim Thompson | December 13, 2009 at 08:11 PM
This photo is gourgeous!
Posted by: Jessica Ridgeway | December 07, 2009 at 02:06 PM
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.
Posted by: Mary Ellen Cuykendall | March 02, 2009 at 11:44 AM
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. :)
Posted by: Kim Gray | January 25, 2009 at 08:07 PM
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
Posted by: Jeannie Whoely | January 21, 2009 at 06:25 AM