Starting Your Own Seeds at Home Workshop

N8030 Townline Rd,East Troy WI 53120

20 March, 2021

Description

Workshop attendees will take home a tray with seeds planted and ready to grow at home! There are many benefits to starting your own seeds at home, including increased plant variety, lower cost per plant, and lower risk of bringing disease into your garden. It just take a small setup and dedicated space in your home in late winter/early spring. After an initial small investment in lights, heating pads, and planter trays, you can use this equipment year after year and reduce costs from $2/plant to $0.25/ plant for tomato and peppers, for example. Additionally, you will be able to cultivate a full array of heirloom tomatoes, quirky pepper types (chocolate habaneros, anyone?), lemony cucumbers, and other fun vegetable varietals from your favorite seed company. In this workshop, participants will learn about seed starting techniques, different planting media, what lights and other equipment helps produce the strongest starts, and how to successfully transition plants from inside to the garden. Workshop attendees will take home a tray with seeds planted and ready to grow at home! We have hundreds of seed packets for participants to choose from, donated by Fleet Farm of Delavan! Presenter: Nicole Tautges, PhD, has 10 years of experience in field crop production and has been starting seeds at home since early college days at UW Madison, when she built a seed starting setup next to a small window in the loft of her college apartment building. She has since expanded her seed starting infrastructure and is experienced in starting a variety of plants at home, with a variety of equipment resources, from small-seeded herbs like thyme to needy starts like peppers. Nicole is eager to help other people expand their gardening variety through this seed starting workshop. **We are cognizant of the protective and preventative measures that need to be taken in the era of Covid-19. We will be holding this workshop outside if the weather is fine, or in the case of rain or cold, in the loft of the White Barn with outdoor air ventilation. In either location there will be plenty of room for social distancing. Participants should dress in warm clothes in case of cold weather. Masks will be required for all participants.**