Vegetables 101 class

Learn the keys to successful vegetable growing on the Front Range including tips and tricks to make your gardening life easier. Colorado’s climate realities include a short growing season, cool summer nights, dry air, erratic late spring and early fall frosts. Soil conditions add another gardening challenge.

The guiding hand of you, the grower, makes all the difference in adjusting growing conditions to achieve results. Come learn when and how to intervene to produce the vegetables you want for fresh eating and preserving.

Instructor: Carl Wilson, writer of Front Range Food Gardener

and CSU Extension horticulturist in Denver

For: Beginning to intermediate gardeners

Dates: Saturday, March 19, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

repeated Saturday, April 16 2:30 to 4"30 p.m.

Location: 200 Santa Fe Dr., Denver

Click to Register: Denver Urban Homesteading

Cost: $25

Photo credit: Seedlings in spring garden before thinning, Carl Wilson

Get Ready at Garden Symposium

Get growing ideas at the Urban Farmers and Vegetable Gardeners Symposium scheduled for Saturday March 12 on the Auraria campus in Denver. The day includes presentations on specialty vegetable and fruit growing topics presented by the author of this blog, Carl Wilson, other CSU Extension personnel and Feed Denver instructors. You can choose six classes during the day from eighteen classes available as outlined below. For more information and to register, visit the Feed Denver website.

9:00
Connecting with Tasty Small Fruit - Joel Reich
Vegetable Seed Starting Secrets - Patti O'Neal
Sustaining Yourself in Changing Times - Kate Armstrong

10:00
Hear The Buzz - Bees and the Edible Garden - Beth Conrey
Lessons from the Vegetable Garden - Carl Wilson
Coming into Community through Urban Food - Kate Armstrong

11:00
Fruit Trees that Earn their Keep on the Front Range - Carol O'Meara
Tips and Tricks for Tomato Growing - Patti O'Neal
Urban Gleaning, Gathering and Foraging - Kate Armstrong

1:00
The Living is Easy Summertime Vegetables - Carol O'Meara
Troubleshooting Insects in the Vegetable Garden - Mary Small
Farming for Climate Change - Ariel Chesnutt

2:00
Vegetables are Cool in Spring and Fall - Carl Wilson
Healthy Soil makes the Vegetable Garden - Jean Reeder
Planting for Your Family's Food Needs - Sarah Marcogliese

3:00
Vegetable Garden Pests: More than Insects - Mary Small
Growing Vegetables in Small Spaces - Cathy Jo Clawson
Food not Lawns - Ariel Chesnutt

* Presented by: Colorado State University Extension, Feed Denver Urban Farms & Markets, Compost Auraria