Good for your Garden: Compost

…something for #Mountainair's home & #communitygarden/ers & local growers, especially in the conspicuous absence of either art council as information manager for new community garden consortium or local farmers market updating information or refreshing online content. Normally, Claunch-Pinto SWCD and Torrance County Extension pick up that slack, but the very popular gardening workshop series are on temporary hiatus until Gene Wynn recovers from recent surgery. 

After starting a Community Garden playlist and subscribing to gardening channels, I then forgot to add videos to the playlist. I now stand reminded and have just added more videos, subscribed to more channels...

Notes from Praxxus

Gardening video: planting sweet corn

…how does your garden grow? From #communitygarden novices to experienced home kitchen gardeners, farmers market growers, professionals and permaculturists…'tis  the season when thoughts turn to gardening. Claunch-Pinto and Torrance County Extension have been collaborating in gardening workshops. Since the June workshop has been postponed and the series on hiatus with Gene Winn recovering from hip surgery, perhaps we all can help fill the gap here with videos, resources and gardening tips. Topics and recommendations invited.

                                             

Praxxus55712 has uploaded Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn!

Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn! by Praxxus55712

In today's episode you and I will plant Ambrosia Sweet Corn. Join me in the garden for a slightly different method of planting corn for a stronger healthier plant. Stay tuned for many updates on this. Hopefully it ends with me grilling fresh corn on the barbeque this summer. 

• Gem corn video provided by: http://www.youtube.com/user/douglasfi2re
• Praxxus on Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/praxxus55712
• Indoor Gardening Channel: http://www.youtube.com/VoodooGarden

Gardeners also share tips on the Facebook page. Here's an interesting one that reminds us how much gardening is the ultimate recycling:

"I am growing potatoes in horse feed bags. They are doing great so far. I rolled the bag all the way down to start, added straw in the bottom then a layer of soil enriched with compost, planted and now as they grow I am alternating straw and soil."

Introduction to Garden Design

Something interesting from UC Davis Extension's Master Gardener and Common Ground community garden maven, Yvonne Savio: Cornell's long-distance learning course. Yes, that's correct, a 10% online gardening design course.

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This April, Cornell Garden-Based Learning Program will launch a new 7-week long distance course, Introduction to Garden Design.  More information, including registration, online. View full syllabus.

Please share with interested audiences.

  

Marcia Eames-Sheavly, me14@cornell.edu

Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

 

Community Container Garden

from Life on the Balcony, apartment gardening tips and tricks, Ready Set Start those seeds... 

Hopefully you have your seed packets in hand, or will shortly. I’m sure you’re itching to get starting with our community container garden project. I know I am! The first thing to do–obviously–is to get those seeds in some seed starting potting mix and get started!

It’s important to start your seeds indoors at the right time, so that they’ll have their best shot when they move outside. To calculate when it is time to sow them, you need to know when you can last expect frost. If you don’t already know, this is a handy list of last frost dates. Once you have that date, look on the seed packet to find out how many weeks before your last frost date you should begin. Simply count backwards from your last frost date that amount, and sow your seeds roughly around that time.