Grow

Learn how to do a drip system and save water!This hands-on class is an introduction to installing your own drip irrigation in your garden, which is the best and most water-efficient way to water your plants. You will learn which parts you’ll need, how to connect your irrigation system to a faucet, how to set the days, times, and duration with a water timer. Then you will help plan and install drip irrigation in a raised vegetable bed and a flower garden. Irrigating shrubs and trees will also be discussed.

You can still have an abundance of colorful flowers and fresh fruits & veggies on your patio, deck, or other small space. Learn all the tips and tricks for successful growing in containers and other confined areas. Certified Nursery Professional and container expert Shawna Anderson will bring examples to show and the class will put a container together with her trademark "Thrillers, Fillers, and Spillers®".

We all have little critters in our garden, but there is a way to prevent and control outbreaks in a way that is safe for the planet, your plants and your family! You will have the opportunity to identify common garden pests and how to implement organic practices in preventing and treating them. Scholarships are available. Apply here!

Let's plant a garden! Bring the whole family* to University Art on J street in Sacramento on Monday, July 1, 2019 at 3 pm for some great crafting fun!! We will be using all kinds of fun items to create our fairy gardens. A great way to spend some time with the kids and have fun doing it! All supplies included. * Please note that anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. This is University Art store policy.

Creating Healthy, Water-efficient Edible Gardens: Two FREE edible gardening workshops in one day! Learn gardening techniques you can use at home. Register for one workshop or both at https://ediblegardeningworkshops.eventbrite.com. WORKSHOP 1 9 to 11 a.m. - Edible Gardening the River-Friendly Way: Presented by Gail Pothour U.C.

New to gardening and want to learn how to do it right? Or maybe you just need a review of the garden basics to help turn your brown thumb to green... Join Marti Civarra, gardening expert & landscape designer, for this fun & informative discussion about all things gardening!

Want to learn how to get more plants in your garden this spring without starting seeds or buying transplants? This is the class for you! This class will provide an introduction to the basic techniques of vegetative propagation including stem/leaf cuttings, root cuttings, layering, and root division. Vegetative propagation is the method of reproducing plants from existing plants.

Houseplant Care Workshop and Greenhouse Tour About this Event This workshop offers an in-depth discussion on houseplant care as well as a walking tour of Potted Elephant's greenhouses. Our grower, Cory Paul, will lead the tour and discuss plant shopping, identification, containers, soil, light, watering, and more. During the potting up demonstration, each participant will receive a Potted Elephant grown plant to pot up and take home. The workshop lasts 2 hours and tickets include lesson, walking tour, plant, pot, and a beverage.

The soil is the basis of nutrition for both plants and humans. 90% of the life on earth lives beneath the soil. In this class we will offer all of the low cost or no cost ways in which we improve the soil using permaculture practice. We will cover, no till methods, sheet mulching, biochar, composting, chop and drop, companion planting, soil improving plants, biodynamics, wood chips, and fungi. In the afternoon we will engage in a hands on soil building activity.

Growing organic herbs to make tea is one of the most economical and easiest ways to help our bodies heal naturally without harmful pesticides that are often used in commercial tea products. There are herbs to help improve our immune system, for energy, concentration, digestion and the list goes on! You are invited to join us for an evening of learning how to grow and make your own tea. Each participant will get to learn how to plant from seeds and cuttings and take them home, along with tea recipes, a small bundle of herbs, and a basic tea garden design.