Starting Seedlings Indoors

About the Workshop:

• Some vegetables require a longer growing season than our climate allows for. Learning to start seeds indoors allows you to gain those precious weeks of growing time, which can make all the difference.

  • What kind of plants?

  • What kind of growing medium?

  • What kind of containers?

  • How much light?

  • When is the best time?

  • How to care for them?

About the Instructors

• Mattea Bujold and Didier Hutchison have lived in our community their entire married life, raising their three kids in the house they purchased “because of the yard”. They both grew up in gardening families so it was natural that they would continue on with their own home garden. In recent years they’ve magnified their focus by taking the Organic Master Gardener class together, with Mattea adding the Master Composter/Recycling class the city offers.

• They began starting seedlings indoors for their own needs several years ago, and it quickly sprang into a full blown home business “ONE GARDEN”. Their primary gardening focus is definitely the sustainable side of it, with emphasis on Food Security and leaving a low impact footprint.

• Mattea Bujold is Sakaw Garden’s Secretary and Master Composter.

• This is the 4th year we’ve had Mattea and Didier teach this workshop, as it is a very valuable class for anyone planting a garden. Whether you’ve tried growing your own seedlings from scratch before or not, you’re bound to pick up some helpful tips to take you from seed ordering to replanting them outside when the weather warms up.