Tending to Summer Vegetables

1290 North Avenue,Cleveland WI 53015

11 June, 2022

Description

Join horticulture instructor Sam Oschwald Tilton to learn strategies and guidance for tending to summer vegetable crops. Vegetable gardeners, this is your chance to learn strategies for tending to summer vegetable crops in a hands-on setting! Join horticulture instructor Sam Oschwald Tilton for this Community Education course at Lakeshore Technical College on Saturday, June 11, 2022. You'll learn to trellis and prune tomatoes to avoid disease, protect crops from pests, and conserve water. You'll have a chance to practice planting for a continuous harvest. During the session, we'll plant seasonal cover-crops to improve the soil. You will then leave the class session with the same seeds from class so that you can use what you learn to follow along in your own vegetable garden. This course is part of a series on vegetable gardening. Feel free to purchase tickets for just this course, for several courses, or for all four remaining vegetable gardening courses in the series! About the InstructorA horticulture instructor at Lakeshore Technical College with an expertise in growing vegetables, Sam Oschwald Tilton is passionate about creating community and beauty through plants. He has a Master’s degree in horticulture and has traveled around the US and the world visiting gardens and farmers. Course DetailsDate: Saturday, June 11, 2022 Time: 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Location: Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, WI; we'll meet in room A228 in the Agriculture Building. We will then move outdoors to the gardening space. Please be sure to bring a water bottle and sunscreen or a hat!