Raised Bed Gardening Workshop - Season's Harvest Eco-Farm
How to start growing your own vegetables usingnatural methods. We offer this workshop for beginning and advanced gardeners as a way to grow vegetables organically. This combination workshop/workbook covers the steps essential to preparing a concrete block raised bed garden.
Concrete block raised bed garden construction, including a list of building materials, methods & plans:
* Different types of blocks
* Garden plot location
* Preparation of location
* Different types of mulch & weed barriers
* Size, shape, & construction of your concrete block gardens
* Watering systems, low water gardening & plans, water barrels, & watering tool
* Season extenders: Cold frame, hoop houses over your concrete raised bed garden
Components to build your soil
* Soil mixing
* Soil microbes & pH
* Planting your concrete raised bed garden, vegetable production & vegetable reference guide
* Seed planting and transplanting
* Starting seedlings indoors & transplanting outdoors, hardening off
* Planting seeds directly into the garden
* Plant spacing in your concrete raised bed garden
* Planting & growing in the concrete block holes, Free planting space!
* Buying And Planting Seeds: Non-hybrid, Open pollinated, & Heirloom
* Frost dates & fall frost protection
* Cold hardy, frost hardy & tropical plants
* Weed control
* Crop rotation
* Vertical growing
* Fertilizer and compost
* Organic & natural fertilizer
* Products that you can trust
* Composting materials & components
* Composting bins
*Compost recipes & teas
* Insect & disease prevention
* Companion planting for insect control
* Organic & natural pest control & recipes
* Reference guide for good & bad insects in the vegetable garden
* Common plant diseases
* Organic & natural disease control
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Look here for current construction progress of the new $4.3 million dollar Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center funded in part by a 2006 Greene County voter approved parks sales tax.
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Nathanael Greene Park covers 59 acres of land received as surplus property from the U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Prisons in 1975. Over the years, the land has been gradually developed to include the Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden, the Gray-Campbell Farmstead and University of Missouri Extension's Master Gardener Demonstration Gardens.
The park is named after Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) who was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. Many places in the United States are named for him including Greene County (Greene County, organized in 1833) and Nathanael Greene Park which is now owned and operated by the Springfield-Greene County Park Board.
Known as Nathanael Greene|Close Memorial Park the 114 acres share the main entrance from Scenic Ave. and is the location for the new $4.3 million dollar Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center expected to open in September 2010, funded in part by a 2006 Greene County voter approved parks sales tax. The park is open dawn to dusk.
View current construction progress.
See this excellent article on it's history of from the Missouri Department of Conservation's magazine, the Missouri Conservationist here.
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