Learn about what garden plants you can over winter in the house and garage. Using your preserved garden produce and other fruits and vegetables. This meeting will be through Google Meet.

What do you do with zucchini, carrots, beets, squash, potatoes, apples, horseradish and the many other end of season vegetables?  This meeting will be through Google Meet.

As our garden grows and develops. we should be eating garden spinach, radish greens and roots, lettuce, chard and carrot tops daily, adding more and more to our salad as the days go by.    Soon enough kale is ready, cherry tomatoes, nasturtiums, honey berries, strawberries, raspberries, peas, beans assorted greens, and lots of different herbs are ready.  We don't have to wait until season's end before we're benefitting from our garden's harvest. 

• Let's talk about seedlings and how they give your season a boost.

• Figure out how to make the most of your time and space.

• Will you buy seedlings or plant indoors?

• Where , when and what to plant with the top 20 suggestions for our area.

• Soil preparation and why taking a short cut here will yield years of regret.

• Organic ways to continually amend your soil, keeping it at its healthiest.

• Best watering practises (how and how often).

• Benefits of using your own kitchen compost and yard material to produce deep, rich, nutritious garden soil.

• What to expect out of your compost, how to start, where to locate your compost, and options for containing it.

• What to compost and what not to compost. 

• Attracting pollinators and making the most of space available.

• Growing herbs is one of the most delightful things about summer, and is a perfect first experience with gardening. 

• They are among the easiest plants to grow, usually very forgiving, pleasingly fragrant, lovely to use decoratively, and the majority can be used in the kitchen as well as around the home. 

"Our local native plants are those which were growing here long before there was any European settlement. There are very few undisturbed native plant remnants left in the Edmonton area, and once these are disturbed by plowing and/or clearing, it then becomes possible for introduced species, and weeds, to move in and crowd out native species.  Gardeners have a unique opportunity to address the biodiversity crisis.  This presentation will feature some of the easier to grow native wildflowers that are easily incorporated into existing gardens.”

Just because something is called a weed, doesn’t mean we should discount it. The word is only a term we use for a plant we haven’t yet found value in.  Most ‘weeds’ – meaning those plants that volunteer themselves in your garden without an official invitation, are most beneficial in the earlier part of the season before those that you plant deliberately are viable. Join us to learn about the nutritious and delicious mixed greens found in Edmonton