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Online Gardening Courses

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Welcome to this section where we work together to get you the best gardening information you need.

This is a different way of running a course because there is no fixed curriculum or course-outline. I ask you what topics you want to take and then figure out a way to answer your questions.

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Members get notices of topics, get the free-downloads, get to post questions, answers are often in the notices, get to decide on topics, and get offered discounts on some e-books. You can unsubscribe at any time using a link in the each newsletter.

Organic Gardening Seminar - Live


This is the main page for the Organic Gardening Seminar - it leads off to the topics and and conversations we're having about this topic.

What's Next(April 2009 - finished)

Please use this form to tell me what courses you want to do next. 


Clay Soils (Finished)


Here's the introductory page to clay soil gardening

Clay Soil gardening soil structure. The most important thing to understand before you start trying to fix your garden.

Options for dealing with clay.  Here are the main systems folks use to garden on clay soil.

Other options for dealing with clay (some overlap with previous but different content based on questions from signed-up readers)

Best Trees and Shrubs for Clay.

Best Perennials for Clay

Gypsum and Clay Soils

Planting in Clay Soils


 

Vegetable Gardening Course (finished)


Main Course Page is right here with all links

Vegetable Seed Starting Dates

Best Tasting Tomato isn't necessariy what you think it is

Organic Pest Control in the home vegetable garden.  

Watering the Vegetable Garden  how to calculate how long to leave drip hoses on.

Pruning tomatoes - how to remove the suckers

Garden planning and crop rotation  (video)


Shade Gardening (finished)


Introductory Page about shade gardening.  LInks out to other parts of the seminar from here.

Container Gardening Course (finished)


Click here to go to the container gardening course page.

Here's a link to a video on pruning container gardens as part of this course

Here's a link to a video on designing container baskets as part of the course.

Compost (finished)


Click here to participate in the soils and compost online seminars.

Video - how to make compost tea

Video - how to spread compost tea


Recipes for Compost Tea


Seed Saving (finished)



Learn to save seed right here. These techniques will let you save most of the common vegetable and flower seed you can ever find. You'll have more plants than you know what to do with.

Tomato seed saving and how to ferment seed.

Seed Storage techniques and questions

Introductory Pages

 
Click here to see how it all works.  This is the system I'm using to identify and run all the courses.  Let me know what you think.

Here's where we're identifying the courses we want to take.  Feel free to add your comments and ideas.  This is an ongoing process and I do read every comment.

Fine Print


Ever notice how there's always fine print? :-) I'm a gardener so here's the important stuff to me (and hopefully you)

1) Privacy: I don't sell or share your email address - I use it to send you notices of gardening course material or downloads etc. That's it. I hate spam as much as you do. This is why I use the premier email service for the Net - I want my emails to be clean and upfront. There's an unsubscribe link in every one in case you decide to leave us.

2) Fellow garden writers ask me why I would ever give away so much information (instead of writing about it)? I learn as much from you folks as you do from me - you give me the questions I use to write e-books (I give you a discount if I write an e-book as a result of the course). I use your questions as the basis for articles and columns and most inmportantly - you pass on the things you've learned and I learn as much doing one of these seminars as I could learn in several years in the garden.

3) This is about having fun in the garden. If it stops being fun - let me know.

 

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