Vegetable Gardening: What, Where, When and How to Grow Your Own Food!

Learn how to convert part of your backyard into a vegetable garden. You'll enjoy how easy and healthy it can be for you and your family! Learn the easiest techniques for breaking ground and/or making simple, raised beds while discussing the latest hybrid and heirloom vegetables. Explore: "square foot gardening"; vertical/trellis gardening; types of vegetables and their growing requirements; garden diseases and how to overcome; storage techniques to keep food into the winter (other than a freezer); saving seeds; types of soil and light requirements; simple low tunnel construction, and the arc of Minnesota's growing season. Registration closes for Gentle Saturday classes on April 19. An optional Saturday lunch is available. To register for lunch see AD38800 on page 33 in the catalog.

Michael Fitzgerald

MICHAEL FITZGERALD started vegetable gardening on his parents' farm where he was responsible for the family garden (which included over 2 1/2 acres and involved growing 80+% of the family's produce). He still loves to garden, growing much of his own family's produce in a suburban/urban environment. started vegetable gardening on his parents' farm where he was responsible for the family garden (which included over 2 1/2 acres and involved growing 80+% of the family's produce). He still loves to garden, growing much of his own family's produce in a suburban/urban environment.