You may arrive early before the class if you want to bring any donations inside when you come for the class, Master Gardeners will get it laid out in the swap room during class.

1 :30-2:30 Budget Gardening for Beginners Learn the basics of planning out your vegetable garden. Site selection, soils.starting from seed vs.buying transplants. Determining how much to plant, timing, spacing, along with tips and hacks for saving money while doing it.

2 :40-3:40: Growing Vegetables in Containers and Raised Beds We will go through some considerations when planning to grow vegetables in a container or raised bed. Selection of container size for each vegetable, advantages and disadvantages, creative containers, selecting materials for a raised bed, selecting and acquiring soil, layout, managing water from simple to more complex, weed managment, fertility options....

If you have things to get out of the car for the swap this is a good time to grab it.

4:00 Seed / Plant Swap will open for everyone (While you may attend just the plant swap, the room will not open until after the classes are over)

New this Year:

• Bring your hand pruners and loppers to our tool sharpening table where we will teach you how to sharpen your tools

• Seed library table

• Perennial plant division demo and plant giveaway

• Special plant raffles

• This year we are also asking participants to bring any unwanted items related to gardening. Pots, tools, supplies. This area will be outdoors in the parking lot near the dumpster for easy dropoiff. Anything left there will be donated, recycled, or thrown away.

How the seed and plant swap will work:

• The idea is to share plants and seeds with each other, and to help those who are new to gardening acquire seeds and plants to get started.

• Bring in seeds left from last year, seeds you ordered this year that you have too many of, seeds you collected from you garden or the wild

• Bring plants that can be divided (or are already divided), cuttings, live stakes, scion wood, houseplants, bulbs, rhizomes, any part that can be shared

• We will have envelopes, zip locks, bags and such to carry things home in as well as tape and pens for labelling. Feel free to bring anything with you that will help in taking home material

• If it is not obvious what the seed, plant, or plant part you are sharing does or looks like please write a description or bring a picture of it.

• You can also drop off any items the day before (Saturday Apr. 7) from 2:00-4:00 while we are setting up.

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