Sky’s vegetable guru Emily will be presenting the basics of vegetable gardening together with a “get your hands dirty” seminar on direct seed sowing. There are plants like tomatoes and marigolds that flourish on being started indoors and transplanted, others like radishes that fiercely resent being transplanted, and some that are happy either way—so long as you do it right. Emily will first discuss how to choose vegetable varieties for the Northwest and for your situation and give you pointers on planning, timing, preparing your soil, fertilizing, and watering. Then she’ll branch out to cover annual flowers as well and demonstrate (and let you experience) how to plant different types of seeds. She’ll discuss which plants you may or must direct sow and initiate you into such mysteries as furrows versus scattering, how deeply to cover (and with what), watering while seeds are sprouting, et cetera.
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