Our Gardening Workshop Series was designed to share tips and tricks that will help you successfully garden with skill and confidence! NEW for 2024: Intro to Annuals Workshop
Gardening School - Saturday, 5/4 | 10 a.m. | $29.99
Join us as we teach you how to prepare your garden to start planting. Topics will include understanding soils, soil fertility and amendments, bed preparation, direct seeding, transplanting, and watering.
We'll also explore best practices for maintaining a healthy garden once it is growing, talk about a crop rotations, succession planting, and weeding, and look at some of the tools you can use to make gardening tasks more efficient. This intro class is a great place to start if you are new to gardening or need to develop a littler greener thumb!
Participants will receive our Gardening School Handbook, three 4-packs of cold crop transplants, and a $10 Von Thun's Greenhouse gift certificate that can be used to purchased additional transplants when the weather warms later in the month.
Kid's Make a Planter Workshop - Saturday, 5/11 | 10 a.m. | $14.99
Kids of all ages are welcome to join us for this hands-on workshop to design and create their own beautiful springtime flowering planter! If you’re planning to make a colorful planter to use as a special Mother’s Day gift you can also stick around after the workshop and make a Mother’s Day card too!
*NEW* Intro to Annuals Workshop - Saturday, 5/18 | 9 a.m. | $9.99
Learn all about the beautiful flowering annuals that are so commonly used for spring & summer flower beds, planters, & hanging baskets. Learn their sunlight & water requirements, growth habits, & color availability. This short course is designed to set you up for success & gardening enjoyment. Attend this class in conjunction with the porch planter workshop (10 a.m. the same day!) or as a stand alone class.
Porch Planter Workshop - Saturday, 5/18 | 10 a.m. | $29.99
Envious of those pretty porch planters you saw so frequently last summer? Join us to make your own! We’ll supply the pot, soil, and plants. You do the rest! Be sure to come with a perceived design & color scheme in mind, as you’ll have lots of flower colors, textures, and varieties to choose from!
