Description
A hands-on workshop where we’ll share what we’ve learned through the years about getting the season going. Our unheated hoop house is full of snaps, campanula, ranunculus, anemone, and sweet peas that were all fall planted and will be blooming beginning in April. We have several plug trays ready to transplant soon for a second succession of cool season plants and our lisianthus should arrive the week of the workshop. Topics we will cover include:
- seed starting – soil blocks vs trays vs transplants vs direct seeding
- bed preparation – soil prep and no till practices
- composting and fertilizing – compost tea
- planting efficiencies – laying landscape fabric, popping holes, drip tape, labeling, planting (hopefully we’ll demonstrate transplanting lisianthus)
- support netting – when to use and how to attach
- books and tools – we’ll share some we find helpful
- Social media groups that help flower farmers
- resources – well have lists of where we buy what
- dahlias – overview of growing from tubers and a look at overwintered beds
- warm season crops – brief discussion of when to start seeds
- Q & A
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