Ready to grow your own?
Garden club holding free vegetable growing workshop on Feb. 11
Are you interested in vegetable gardening? Growing your own food? Then be sure to check out Kelowna Garden Club’s Seed to Harvest: vegetable growing for novice to green thumb” to be held in the Student Services Building of Okanagan College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 11. Admission is free. There will be four speakers addressing gardening basics, how to prepare a raised square-foot garden, growing vegetables in pots and planters and how to successfully start seeds.
Outside the theatre there will be various related vendors as well as displays.
The first speaker, Gabe Cipes from Summerhill Winery, will give an overview with Vegetable Gardening 101.
Kathryn McCourt, a founding member of the Penticton Urban Agriculture Association, will speak about Pots, Planters and Raised beds — vegetables in small spaces.
After lunch (brown bag or order Subway before 9 a.m.) Maxine Boulding, a certified horticulturalist, will discuss Starting Successful Seeds, which is sometimes a challenge for even the most-seasoned gardener.
The final talk will be Square-Foot Gardening ? growing the most crop in a small space, given by Toni Boot, former owner of Grasslands Nursery in Summerland.
For more information, visit the gardening club's webpage at kelownagardenclub.ca or call co-ordinator Rosemary Botner at 250-2155322.