Since our $5 earlybird discount on the Fall 2023 Virtual Garden Club expires tomorrow at midnight, I
wanted to share five gardening wins you can expect if you join us for the semester that starts next week.
- You'll learn to grow your own perennials at a fraction of the usual cost, by saving seed and winter-sowing it. Saving seed from perennials, including native meadow wildflowers this fall (like Baptisia, above), is a smart way to expand or replenish your garden at almost no cost. We'll also share our best mail-order perennial seed sources so that
you can order varieties you don't have in the garden to harvest seed from...yet. (Prefer to save your vegetable seed? We'll cover the how-to's for those, too.)
- You'll contribute to the environment. Our gardens are more than just pretty, or even just productive harvest-wise. Managed smartly, they can also make a positive contribution to biodiversity. During the club, we'll share the latest ecologically minded practices for fall
cleanup and more.
- You'll bring your passion for gardening indoors in new ways, to enjoy during the colder months. Together, we'll explore everything from growing microgreens all winter (even of herbs and pea shoots!) to pots of forced bulbs for late-winter bloom, to oddball houseplants that can enliven any room.
- You'll create a spring display that outsmarts hungry animals. Planting animal-resistant bulb choices this fall
is one straightforward way to keep critters from "harvesting" your garden without permission. We'll show you which varieties stand up to the test.
- You'll extend your garden's beauty into fall and winter. We'll introduce you to showy, underused late-performing ornamentals and berry-laden native bio-hedges loaded with native species that keep color and visual interest in your garden after the season winds down.
Our first class
starts next Thursday, September 14th, at 3 PM Eastern. We'll meet on Zoom four times, for 90 minutes each, to discuss those subjects and many more. (We record these classes in case you can't attend live.)
One of the most popular club features: We'll also answer "urgent garden questions" sent in by our members, to help solve your garden issues.
Over 1,000 gardeners have joined us in past seasons, many of them for
multiple semesters; you can read a sample of their positive reviews, and all the other club details, on the page linked below. Save $5 with our earlybird discount by joining us before midnight tomorrow (Thursday).
