Soil & Water Presents Gardening Seminar

The Montgomery County Soil & Water Conservation District invites the public to attend a presentation on Fall Vegetable Gardening on June 16, at 6 p.m. at the Crawfordsville District Public Library in Meeting Room A (Donnelley Room). The speaker for the event will be Crawfordsville resident and home gardener, Kathy Brown.

Brown has been gardening for nearly 30 years. Her backyard includes vegetables, herbs and flowers, but growing vegetables is her true passion. She gardens in raised beds and containers in a standard-size city lot not far from downtown Crawfordsville. A Purdue Extension Master Gardener and member of MCSWCD’s Community Growers, she gets a lot of food out of a relatively small space by utilizing techniques such as succession planting, intensive spacing, targeted variety selection and year-round harvesting.

Brown will be talking about these techniques, as well as providing a timeline for what and when to plant for fall harvest and suggesting specific varieties of vegetables that have grown well for her. Her talk is appropriate for both beginning gardeners and those looking to expand on their experience.

The first 25 people to arrive at the talk will receive a gift basket of seeds that are appropriate for planting this summer for fall harvest. There will also be a drawing for a door prize donated by Sustainable Initiatives of Montgomery County.

Whether you’re brand new to gardening and don’t want to wait until next spring to get started, or you have a thriving summer garden that you want to keep going into fall, this presentation will help you figure out what to plant, when to plant it, and how to keep it growing even after the weather cools down.

RSVP by calling (765) 362-0405 ext. 2666 or visit www.montgomerycoswcd.com