Veggie Garden Essentials
Take a look at these classes to help you grow a fantastic veggie garden with new topics each month.
Our core organic gardening classes offer a new topic every month. Pick your faves or take them all for a comprehensive series!
New monthly topics offer seasonally appropriate themes so that you can apply what you have learned immediately to your own garden. Beginners, we recommend you start with Organic Gardening 101.
Monthly Topics
MAY - Grow Heat Lovers
JUNE - Go Vertical
JULY - Start Your Fall & Winter Garden
AUG.. - Attract Beneficial Insects
SEPT. - Save Seeds
OCT. - Put Your Garden to Bed
NOV. - Compost 101
(Past topics: Feb. - Start Your Garden Indoors, March - Smart Garden Planning
April - Get Your Garden Growing)
Read on for these classes and more! Follow the links below to read a full class description. Programs are held at the Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford) and at Bradner Gardens Park (Central/Mt. Baker).
- Go Vertical (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Jun 02, 2012 10:00 AM to Jun 02, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Learn how to grow your veggie garden vertically to maximize your space and harvest.
- Organic Gardening 101 (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Jun 06, 2012 06:00 PM to Jun 06, 2012 08:00 PM)
- Beginner gardeners—learn to grow a garden organically!
- Go Vertical (Pickering Barn in Issaquah, 1730 10th Ave. N.W., Issaquah, WA 98027 , from Jun 09, 2012 01:00 PM to Jun 09, 2012 03:00 PM)
- Join Seattle Tilth at the Pickering Barn garden and learn to grow your veggie garden vertically to maximize your space and harvest.
- Go Vertical (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Jun 21, 2012 06:00 PM to Jun 21, 2012 08:00 PM)
- Learn how to grow your veggie garden vertically to maximize your space and harvest.
- Start Your Fall or Winter Garden (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Jul 12, 2012 06:00 PM to Jul 12, 2012 08:00 PM)
- Plant veggies now for harvesting in fall and winter -- you'll be glad you did!
- Start Your Fall or Winter Garden (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Jul 28, 2012 10:00 AM to Jul 28, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Plant veggies now for harvesting in fall and winter -- you'll be glad you did!
- Attract Beneficial Insects (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Aug 04, 2012 10:00 AM to Aug 04, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Meet a gallery of helpful insects and learn to distinguish good bugs from bad bugs in the garden.
- Build Unique Raised Beds (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 11, 2012 10:00 AM to Aug 11, 2012 01:00 PM)
- Unique and innovative ways to create a raised vegetable garden.
- Attract Beneficial Insects (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 16, 2012 06:00 PM to Aug 16, 2012 08:00 PM)
- Meet a gallery of helpful insects and learn to distinguish good bugs from bad bugs in the garden.
- Start Your Fall or Winter Garden (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 18, 2012 10:00 AM to Aug 18, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Plant veggies now for harvesting in fall and winter -- you'll be glad you did!
- Secrets of Companion Planting (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 18, 2012 02:00 PM to Aug 18, 2012 04:00 PM)
- Learn how to create a mutually beneficial edible plant community.
- Edibles in your Landscape (Pickering Barn in Issaquah, 1730 10th Ave. N.W., Issaquah, WA 98027 , from Aug 25, 2012 01:00 PM to Aug 25, 2012 03:00 PM)
- Join Seattle Tilth at the Pickering Barn garden to learn how to incorporate seasonal and perennial edibles in your landscape.
- Save Seeds (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Sep 06, 2012 06:00 PM to Sep 06, 2012 08:00 PM)
- Harvest and save your garden seeds for future gardens!
- 25th Annual Harvest Fair (TBD, from Sep 08, 2012 10:00 AM to Sep 08, 2012 04:00 PM)
- Find out about all of the activities at the Harvest Fair on September 10.
- Save Seeds (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Sep 15, 2012 10:00 AM to Sep 15, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Harvest and save your garden seeds for future gardens!
- Put your Garden to Bed (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Oct 06, 2012 10:00 AM to Oct 06, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Replenish your garden soil all winter long with the techniques you will learn in this class.
- Put your Garden to Bed (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Oct 20, 2012 10:00 AM to Oct 20, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Replenish your garden soil all winter long with the techniques you will learn in this class.
- Composting 101: Feed Your Garden (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Nov 03, 2012 10:00 AM to Nov 03, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Discover how easy it can be to create nutrient-rich compost for your garden.
- Composting 101: Feed Your Garden (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Nov 17, 2012 10:00 AM to Nov 17, 2012 12:00 PM)
- Discover how easy it can be to create nutrient-rich compost for your garden.
