Summer's Other Awesome Veggies

OK! We've planted tomatoes – now what? 

Summer has loads of other edibles and let's give them some attention! This month, take home some seeds of other veggies that love the heat and you'll love to eat! Greek salads to combine the tomatoes with cucumbers.... Peppers and zucchinis to pop on the grill... And that's just the beginning!

Van Gogh's The Sower

We will cover all the other summer crops and save water too! You can grow vegetables on considerably LESS water than lawns! As usual, dress to get dirty in a gardening sort of way and show up with your questions!

Class is April 4, 2015, 10 to Noon at The Learning Garden

David King, Gardenmaster of The Learning Garden, teaches gardening classes for UCLA Extension and writes (some say excessively) about growing food in Southern California.  He is also the Founding Chair of the Seed Library of Los Angeles and led the fight to make Los Angeles a GMO Free Zone.  A gardener for over 50 years, he has answers to your questions (and if he doesn't, he'll make something up!).  Entertaining and knowledgeable about almost every facet or gardening, the $20 for this class will be the best twenty bucks you spend on gardening!

What To Do & When To Do It

You should take a class from this man!

...the workshop.  As opposed to the book.  As many folks know, Gardenmaster David King is writing a book called "Growing Food In Southern California; What To Do & When To Do It..."  This book is the result of teaching these classes for the last two years (we started the the classes in February 2010 - and he thought he'd have the book written by July... ha!)

So this is the continuing education series of these classes.  You get 2 hours of indepth gardening information, from some 50 years of experience and some advanced gardening techniques that probably rates as some of the most entertaining gardening classes you can take in Southern California!  Not only that, you are privvy to what will be in the book when it finally comes out!  

What To Do And When To Do It:  Growing Food In Southern California (we reverse the title for the classes)

Always the FIRST Saturday of the Month (unless it's a holiday); 
Always 10 to noon; $25 per one class, discount for multiple classes; 
Always INFORMATIVE & ENTERTAINING;
Always hot tea and coffee (bring your own mug);& 
Always your free monthly handout of gardening in Los Angeles! 

Which is like nowhere else, and that's why you need this class!

 TLG

Join David For Growing Food Class This Saturday

This Saturday, 06 August 2011, The Learning Garden presents: Growing Food In Southern California with David King. This 9 to 12 workshop centers on what to do in the coming months as Southern California heads into our 'other Spring' and one of our best, and least understood, growing seasons! You'll learn what to plant and how to plant it, what varieties go best here and why and all about getting the best garlic you will ever have! Dress to get into the garden and get dirty, The Learning Garden can be cool even in August, so dress in layers. Coffee and garden-made mint tea will be served please bring your own cup! Email greenteach@gmail.com or call 310.722.3656 for more information. No need to RSVP – class goes on no matter what!  $25 at the gate...

The Learning Garden is located on the grounds of Venice High School at the intersection of Venice Blvd and Walgrove Avenue.  Enter The Learning Garden through the  gate South of  Venice Blvd. on Walgrove Avenue.  Parking is available on Walgrove Avenue.

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Neither Rain Nor Sleet...

Intrepid students pause with their instructor, the Gardenmaster, in the morning lesson this last Saturday in the What To Do & When To Do It series in the Garden.  

Class started at 9:00 and the rain started at 10.  We moved to the small protected area in the greenhouse and kept right on keeping on!  It didn't rain long, but we kept right on and the weather cleared for the rest of the weekend.  Sunday's class (and potluck!) was in cool, but dry conditions.  

Since then, it's been windy, cool (sometimes cold) and dry.  Time to water again even though we were running and ducking from rain just a few days ago!