We welcome back Suzanne Bontempo from OWOW as she shares techniques to ensure a healthy environment for growing your own food. Join us and learn the many components to growing a successful organic veggie garden, including integrated pest management, companion planting, fertilizing, and choosing the right soil. Note: Scroll down for the webinar outline and shopping list!
We welcome back Suzanne Bontempo from OWOW as she shares techniques to ensure a healthy environment for growing your own food. Join us and learn the many components to growing a successful organic veggie garden, including integrated pest management. You can contact Suzanne at www.plantharmony.org
- Welcome!
- What is the OWOW program?
- Introduction to the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Set your vegetable garden up for success
- amend your soil with compost
- Feed with organic fertilizers
- benefits of adding alfalfa meal
- benefits of adding earthworm castings
- Planning your food garden
- sun exposure
- companion planting
- rotating annual food crops
- growing in raised beds
- plant spacing
- Grow heirloom & perennial vegetables
- Working with cover crops
- Don’t forget the flowers
- Invite the good bugs
- Watering our veggies as they grow
- Tips for pest management
- How to use (eco-friendly) pesticides
- Helpful resources
Shopping list:
- Bags of compost, soil amendment, planting mix
- Bags of mulch
- Organic fertilizers
- dry fertilizers, such as EB Stone Organics Sure Start and Down to Earth All Purpose
- Alfalfa Meal
- Earthworm Castings
- Liquid fertilizers, such as EB Stone Organics Fish Emulsion with Kelp, Fox Farm Big Bloom, PNW Organics Fish On & Oceans Gold
- Fava bean seeds
- Your favorite vegetables
- Try planting perennial veggies too!
- Flower for our good bug friends, just a few suggestions and not limited to this:
- alyssum
- cosmos
- buckwheat
- erigeron
- yarrow
- gaillardia
- echinacea
- bee balm
- Planting & maintenance tools
- shovel
- trowel
- kneeling garden pad
- debris buckets/tuff totes
- gopher baskets
- Irrigation supplies
- watering hoses
- soaker hoses
- Dramn watering wands &nozzles
- watering can
- Plant reference book
- Sunset Western Garden Book
- Golden Gate Gardening