Starting seeds can often be the trickiest part of a successful home garden. Its quite literally why we exist as a plant nursery! It can be so challenging to grow healthy, disease free, sturdy and weather acclimated starter plants that many home gardeners give up on it and just come get their plants from us instead.
This workshop will take place at our plant nursery in the Redland and is being taught by our seed starter and plant whisperer extraordinaire farmer Tiffany. She has been managing our seedling operation since the first day and is the keeper of the seedling secrets! She will give the group a tour of the nursery and explain why we made some of the design decisions we did when building it. After that we will gather in our potting shed to learn about all of the specialty materials we use and she will do lots of hands on demonstrations because seed starting is best learned with the body and the mind together.
This class is intimately sized so that we can all have a chance to participate in seed starting too! Each participant will get to start their own 72 cell tray of seedlings using the Little River Coop super-extensive seed stash, after which you'll get detailed instructions for taking care of your seed tray at home. Getting to start a tray from our seed collection is a pretty sweet deal if you have a garden you were going to buy plants for. We have thousands of seed varieties in our collection and you'll be able to choose and plant whatever you'd like, which will save you from having to buy lots of seed packets just to use a few seeds. If you take good care of your cell tray you'll have 72 healthy seedlings in just 3-4 short weeks that can be transplanted into your garden for fall.
Saturday, September 20th
1:30 - 4:30pm
Little River Coop Nursery
22305 SW 157th Avenue
Redland, FL. 33170
-tour of our nursery & potting shed. why we designed it the way we did
-introduction to materials
-hands on techniques for seed starting
-hands on activity: let’s plant a 72 cell tray!
-caring for your 72 cell tray at home for optimum success
This class is a bit long (sometimes it runs over so make sure you are free for about 3 hours to make sure you can finish your tray) and a bit expensive because its so involved (and long!) and requires so much material. But trust us, its worth it and sells out fast since we keep it small! Sign up now!
Due to the intimate nature of the workshops we do not offer refunds for cancellations but we oftentimes have a waitlist so with enough warning we can try to replace you and then refund your payment.