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Grow Your Own: Troy, NY

In this six-part workshop series, we'll be delving deep into how to get the best yields from your Edible Garden. Throughout the series, we'll be addressing the most fundamental issue of a great edible garden: Soil Health. Each installment will focus on best-care practices for your edible plants and how to prepare for a great harvest for the weeks, months and years to ahead.

These workshops will be geared toward experienced home gardeners who are looking to skill-up on their techniques and increase their food-growing potential. Everyone regardless of experience is welcome.

We'll answer questions such as: Which foods should I direct seed and which foods should I transplant into the garden? How exactly do I prune my tomatoes? Bugs: friend or foe? How can interplanting maximize my use of space? Is my plant sick or nutrient deficient? And much, much more! Come to one workshop, come to them all!

These workshops will be available at sliding scale pricing.

April 7th
Garden bed preparations: cover crop, soil amendments, compost, mulch
Starting your own June transplants and the best practices for up-planting
Early spring direct-seeds and wild harvests
Understanding edible plants: annuals, biennials, perennials

May 19th
Transplanted and direct seeded summer produce
Mulch: The Good, the Bare, the Bugly
Irrigation basics
Harvest techniques for Spring Greens
Plant anatomy: How to maximize growth for the edible part of each plant

July 7th
Seeding transplants for the fall garden
Weeding 101: Friend or Foe?
Identifying garden disease
Maximize your small space with Interplanting
Keep it lush with Succession Planting

August 18th
Harvest and Pruning techniques
Saving your harvest for winter: Getting by without canning
Fall crop transplants & direct seeds
Winter crop seeding for transplant

October 6th
Fresh harvests through the winter
Proper storage for root crops
Garden clean-up
Preparing the beds for first frost: cover crop, mulch, amendments

November 10th
Canning 101: The Hot Water Bath (Indoor)
Getting the most from your Upstate NY winter garden
Get a jump on Spring 2020: what to do before the ground freezes