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The Bountiful Container: Growing a Full Garden of Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Edible Flowers in Containers
Built around my best-selling book of the same name, this program introduces home gardeners to the notion of growing a bountiful vegetable garden entirely in containers. I cover all the basics: types of containers, soil, fertilizer, watering, and deciding whether to start from seeds or seedlings. I talk about finding the best new varieties developed just for containers, and then we move into the heart of the program: I plant up a small container garden of mixed plants, at least one vegetable, one herb, and one edible flower, introducing the plants and explaining the techniques as I go. We hold a drawing at the end and some lucky person in the audience takes the finished garden home. People love that.
Depending on the characteristics of the audience, I can deliver the same general information from somewhat different perspectives:
- Kitchen Garden on Your Patio [designed for enthusiastic cooks]
- Gardening in Small Spaces [the focus is on clever ways to make use of limited spaces]
- Container Gardening–Easier on Your Back and Your Knees [especially valuable for older gardeners or those with physical limitations]
Also, depending on the nature of the space available and the preferences of the host, I can provide this workshop in these different formats:
- Slide show, with full Power Point presentation
- “Meet the Plants” – this talk focuses on cultivars best for container gardening, with sample plants for people in the audience to pass around and fondle. [more effective with smaller groups]
- Demonstration: I plant up a small container garden of edible plants, as described above.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS; Detail Coming Soon:
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- Soup Night
- Writing Workshops
- How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal
- Book Publishing 101
