Explore the Garden Family Night
Date: February 27
Location: USU Botanical Center
Time: 6-8 pm
Cost: $3 per person
Step in out of the cold and tour the USU Botanical Center greenhouse with greenhouse manager Richard Anderson. Learn and practice techniques of planting seeds and go home with seeds you planted so you can watch them grow.
Extending the Garden Harvest Season
Date: March 10
Location: USU Botanical Center
Time: 9 am - noon
Cost: $37 Public/$29 Members of the Garden
Discover simple ways to protect veggies from the cold and harvest fresh produce year round. The class explores hobby greenhouse designs. Participants will get hands-on experience building a cold frame and will take home a vegetable transplant and Wall o Water.
Fruit Pruning Demonstration
Date: March 17
Location: Boyd Hansen's orchard, 112 S. 3000 W., West Point
Time: 9 - 11 am
Instructors: USU Extension Staff
Cost: Free
Prune with confidence after learning the art and science of proper pruning practices. The focus will be on apples, peaches, grapes and raspberries. This outdoor event is one of our most popular workshops. Dress for the occasion and come ready to learn.
Propagation Class #2: Hardwood Cuttings
Date: March 22
Location: USU Botanical Center
See story in this issue about the Plant Propagation Series
The second workshop of the series teaches propagating plants such as willows, cottonwoods, grapes, and others by hardwood cuttings. It also covers caring for propagation tools, including sharpening grafting knives.
Fruit Pruning Demonstration
Date: March 24
Location: USU Botanical Center
Time: 9 -11 am
Cost: Free
Prune with confidence after learning the art and science of proper pruning practices. The focus will be on apples, peaches, grapes and raspberries.
Basic Pruning 101 -- Waking Up the Landscape
Date: March 31
Location: Ogden Botanical Garden
Time: 9 am - noon
Instructors: OBG Staff & Master Gardeners
Cost: Free
Our experts are ready to teach you how to choose the correct tools to prune fruit trees, deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, and roses and the proper techniques for pruning. Instruction also includes how to clean up perennials and ornamental grasses for spring. Pruning tools will be available to purchase.
