Seeding the Garden of Gardeners

CG #5 Basics with Instructor Dick Pierce

Event Details

Time: August 22, 2009 from 8:30am to 12pm
Location: American Botanical Council
Street: Manor Rd
City/Town: Austin
Phone: /email at: citizengardener08@gmail.com
Event Type: class
Organized By: Dick Pierce
Latest Activity: Aug 30

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Event Description

Want to learn about Austin’s unique growing season(s), climate, soils, plants, and water resources?
Want to raise safe, nutritious food for your family, and your children to know and enjoy gardening?
Don’t have a lot of time, money, patience, or space…but want food and want it to work, now?

What will I learn?
• Basics: Turn your bare ground or Bermuda grass lawn into raised-garden beds – in the right place, with the right soil. Small enough to manage, big enough to provide real food.
• Techniques: Raised beds; soil, mulch, and compost; bio-intensive/square-foot gardening; plant varieties for
Central Texas; water management; plant starts, seeds, and propagation; good and bad bugs.
• Do It,…Learn I,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops include fun outdoor activities with a great group. Schedule coincides with our fall planting season.

The Fall Garden – Plant in Sept – Harvest through Nov.
• Late Aug - Sept is the planting time for most vegetables in Austin’s unique Fall Gardening season
• Grow/harvest until late Nov. – early Dec.(and beyond).
• Fall provides great weather to be active and outdoors. Help add to your family’s well-being, and nutrition, your exercise, and Austin’s food movement and local food supply – become a “Foodie”
Details
• Course Fee is $50 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion, or FREE with a pledge of ten hours of volunteer time to a CG Garden Partner (list available on website). Material fee is $40.
• A new Course (3 classes) will start every Sat., in Sept. – also, early-bird class – Aug. 22, 26, 29.
• Check website for locations (N, S, E) and questions/enrollments to citizengardener08@gmail.com

Dick Pierce at American Botanical Council
On Manor Rd in North East Austin
On Saturday morning, August 22 from 8:30 - 12:00 and
On Saturday 29 from 8:30- 12:00
with an evening meeting on Wednesday, August 26th from 6:30 - 8:00pm