Landscape and Gardening
Exuberant Summer Vegetable Gardens
Now - April 9, 2013
Member $30
Tuesday | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Instructor
- Pam Perry
Description
When temperatures flirt with 117 degrees, and nights fail to cool, summer gardens can be a lush, green, productive oasis, complete with harvestable crops! Tomatoes produce into July, eggplants grow throughout the season, Armenian cucumbers pick up when others fade away, and melons sweeten summer mornings. Sweet potatoes grow as an ever-expanding groundcover, providing fresh greens for summer meals and the promise of a fall harvest. Okra, related to mallow and hibiscus, provides lovely flowers each morning to add to salads or prepare in traditional ways. Basil fills the garden, invites bees galore, and adds flavor to sweets and savories. Harvested onions, garlic and leeks make room for monsoon-planted legumes and corn. Join this class to find out how to grow these bounties here.
- Class enrollment limit: 25
