Workshops for a bountiful spring
Spring gardening classes
Will this be the spring you plant a successful edible garden? Or will you rethink your ornamental garden to make it more sustainable? Garden for the Environment, at 1590 7th Ave. (at Lawton Street), in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, is offering two series of weekly classes this spring that are sure to get you digging.
A six-session class will teach you to create and grow a vegetable garden. The series, called Dig In!, costs $150 and runs March 31 to May 5. The six topics are: raised-bed construction; growing healthy soil; DIY drip irrigation; planting calendar and crop rotation; planting your edible garden; and care and harvest.
The other series, which consists of three classes, will teach you how to create a droughttolerant, chemical-free backyard. The session topics are: sustainable garden design; waterwise gardening; and organic pest control. This series will be taught twice — in March, starting March 10; and again in June, starting June 16. Enrollment costs $30, and each participant will receive a $10 gift certificate for either Cole Hardware or the Urban Farmer. The garden, a half-acre ornamental and food demonstration garden, offers individual monthly classes in organic gardening, as well as workshops on beekeeping, keeping chickens and the all-important composting. To read more about the classes or to enroll, go to www.gardenfortheenvironment.org or call (415) 558-8246.