Be Healthy: Grow Your Own Vegetables
Calling everyone who likes to grow their own vegetables or would like to learn how to grow their own vegetables! Join us for the Be Healthy: Grow Your Own Vegetables class starting in August. Participants will attend Tuesday night classes on Aug. 2nd, 16th, 23rd , 30th & Sept. 6th, 13th, 20th. Tuesday night classes will be held in our lecture room from 6:00-7:00 pm. On the following Saturdays: August 27th; September 10th & 24th; October 8th, 22nd ; Nov. 5th & Dec. 3rd, you can also come with your questions to the garden area at 9:00 am and get the answers you are looking for. Participants will get hands-on experience growing their own vegetables in a 4' x 8' raised bed and setting up their own micro-irrigation system. For those who want to grow more food, addition raised beds can be reserved. Everyone who takes the class will receive seeds! The seeds for this class are all heirloom so you will be able to save some for growing in the fall through spring of 2017/2018! Here are the seeds that will be available for growing in each raised bed (or at your home); Bountiful Green Beans, Bushy Cucumbers, Dwarf Gray Sugar Peas, Bull Nose Bell Sweet Peppers, Siberian Tomato, Early Blood Turnip Beets, DeCicco Broccoli, Scarlet Nantes Carrots, Smooth German Kale, Winter Density Romaine Lettuce, Early Scarlet Globe Radish, Bloomsdale Spinach, Five Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard, Genovese Basil, Bouquet Dill, Radio Calendula, Mexican Tarragon, and Tip Top Nasturtiums. Participants can also add other vegetables to their raised bed if they wish. You will also get to learn how to start your own transplants from seeds for planting out in the garden (or containers) once they are ready. For those vegetables that do best sown directly in the garden you will get to make your own seed tape. Information will also be covered on how to balance the soil to grow nutrient dense food! For individuals with disabilities, requiring special accommodations, please contact UF/IFAS Extension within a minimum of 72 hours of the event/program so that proper consideration may be given to the request.
at Cocoa Rockledge Garden Club
3695 Lake Drive
Cocoa, United States
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