Free gardening classes will continue on Wednesday June 16 in Our Garden, the demonstration garden established by the Bay Area News Group and managed by the Contra Costa Master Gardeners.
Last year’s schedule was canceled due to the pandemic and stay-at-home requirements, even though master gardeners continue to grow produce and maintain the garden on Shadelands Drive and Wiget Lane in Walnut Creek. Fruits and vegetables grown in the garden are donated to the Monument Crisis Center in Concord.
The garden, founded in 2009, offers free courses on sustainable gardening every Wednesday at 10 a.m. until the end of October. Master gardeners will talk about a variety of topics, including planting summer and winter gardens, composting, growing grapes, and keeping critters out of your garden.
Master gardeners also propagate various types of vegetables and ornamental plants that are offered for sale every week.
Here is a schedule for the upcoming classes.
June 16 – Make the most of your summer garden
June 23rd – Herbal all-stars for the dry garden
June 30th – summer cut
July 7th – living things in the garden
July 14th – pickling
July 21 – permaculture
July 28th – growing grapes at home
August 4th – Mediterranean plants and climate and how you can make the most of both in your garden.
August 11th – Understand and use cover crops in your garden
August 18 – grow winter vegetables at home
August 25th – growing succulents in containers
Sep 1 – Ornamental plants for fun, flowers and fragrance
September 8 – mushrooms
September 15th – Good mistake / bad mistake
September 22nd – Get the latest news on bees
September 29th – Cultivation of microgreens
October 6th – Composting, let’s count the ways the
October 13th – Plant trees in the garden
October 20 – growing potatoes (sweet potatoes and good old tubers)
October 27th – tree care in autumn and winter
