Category Archives: Upcoming Events
Basic Vegetable Gardening Classes
Where: Sedgwick County Extension, Sunflower Room
When: January 31st and February 7th, 6-7:30 p.m.
Cost: $5, whether you attend both classes or only one
To Register: http://vegclass.eventbrite.com or call 316-660-0100
Growing vegetables in Kansas can be a challenge, especially for a beginner. A series of two basic vegetable gardening classes will be held on Tuesday, January 31 and Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center Sunflower Room at 21st and Ridge Rd. in Wichita. Both classes run from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Cost of the classes is $5, whether you attend both or only one. Register online at http://vegclass.eventbrite.com or call 316-660-0100.
The January 31st class will cover Intro to Vegetable Gardening.
The February 7th class will cover Raised Bed Gardening and Extending the Garden Season.
Spring Gardening Workshop
Where: Sedgwick County Extension Center 4-H Hall, 7001 W. 21st St. N, Wichita
When: Saturday, January 21, 2012, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
Cost: $10 per person, due in advance
To Register: springgardening.eventbrite.com or call Angie at 660-0100
The 9th annual Spring Gardening Workshop will be held at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center 4-H Hall at 21st and Ridge in Wichita on Saturday, January 21st. From 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be three seminars each hour, running at the same time, for a total of 15 seminars to choose from. The workshop includes educational topics for the home gardener, focused on landscape and ornamental plants. Look forward to a wealth of gardening information all packed into one day. See schedule below for classes.
Class size is limited and open to all residents in south central Kansas.
In case of inclement weather, check KSN Channel 3, KAKE Channel 10 or KWCH Channel 12 for cancellation.
Workshop Classes Include:
8:30am-9:00am Registration/Sign-in
9:00am-9:50am Landscaping
or
Growing & Using Herbs
or
Gardening for Butterflies
10:00am-10:50am Landscaping cont.
or
Using Natives & Wildflowers in Your Landscape
or
First Time Gardening
11:00am-11:50am Growing Transplants from Seed
or
Easy Care Roses
or
Lawn Renovation/Spring Lawn Care
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch on your own
1:00pm-1:50pm Container Plants
or
Shade Gardening
or
Water-wise Gardening (Xeriscaping)
2:00pm-2:50pm Growing Perennials
or
Selection & Care of Trees
or
Composting
Local Food Connections Workshop
Our Local Food-South Central and the Sedgwick County Extension Office are excited to announce the first Local Food Connections Workshop in the Wichita area.
When: November 1, 2011; 6-9 p.m.
Where: Sedgwick County Extension Office, 4-H Hall
What: Dinner catered by Lotus Leaf Cafe, panel discussion, breakout sessions, keynote address
Who: Local food producers and local food businesses
Register Online at http://ourlocalfoodsouthcentral.blogspot.com
Register by Mail: Registration Form (PDF)
Where’s Our Fall Garden?
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything about planting for fall or shown pictures of what we are doing for a fall garden this year. (Okay, maybe you haven’t noticed.) Or maybe you just assumed that the heat was taking its toll on us as much as you, and we had given up any hope of a fall planting of veggies. (Tempting idea, really.)
As a matter of fact, the main reason we’re not planting a fall garden is this:
This is the concept plan for a renovation of our demonstration garden. We have the money raised to put in new drainage and raised beds and build the shaded education area. Some of the other components will wait until we have funding for them. I’m sure the final result won’t look like the drawing, but it will be nice to have some new raised beds and improved drainage.
Because of this, we will be started to deconstruct our existing raised beds as things finish this fall, instead of keeping the garden going into the winter. We are hoping to have the new raised beds in place by spring, so the garden will be full and beautiful by Tomato Day.
While there won’t be much posting about fall/winter gardening this year, there will probably be a fair number of posts about deconstructing/reconstructing raised beds. We’re also beginning the process of thinking about edging materials and types of features we want for the raised beds. Does anyone have great ideas to share that you’d like to see?
Tomato Day this Saturday!
Saturday, July 23, 2011 7am-12pm
The 22nd Annual Tomato Day will be held at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center at 21st and Ridge in Wichita on Saturday, July 23rd from 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This event features information on selecting, planting, maintaining, cooking with tomatoes. Admission is free.
If you are so lucky as to have some tomatoes, you can enter them in a contest for Ugliest, Largest, Best Heirloom Specimen, Best Plate of 3 Standard tomatoes and more! The cooks in the family can enter Fresh or Preserved Salsa. Preserved salsa must meet USDA approved processing methods; this information is available at the Extension Office. For more information on contests, please visit http://tinyurl.com/TomatoDay2011.
In 4-H Hall:
- Enter Tomato & Salsa Contests
- Get Plant Problem Diagnosis
- Taste Fried Green Tomatoes & Salsa
- Make Tomato Critters with the Kids
- Buy Garden Magazines
- Buy Iris from the Wichita Iris Society
- Eat a Tomato Brunch by La Familia Senior Community Center
Shop the Kansas Grown! Farmer’s Market in the parking lot for great local products. Donate your extra garden produce to Plant A Row for the Hungry for the Kansas Food Bank to help those in need.
Seminars in Demonstration Garden:
8:00 Composting Demonstration
8:30 Tomato Tour
9:00 Growing a Vertical Vegetable Garden
9:15 Tour of the Arboretum
9:30 Organic Pest Control for Vegetable Gardens – Mel Epp
10:00 Growing a Variety of Peppers
10:30 The Family of 4 Garden – Bounty in 100 Square Feet
11:00 Grafting Heirloom Tomatoes – Dr. Cary Rivard
11:30 Demystifying Local Food – Natalie Fullerton
Seminars in the Sunflower Room:
9:00 Making and Canning Salsa
10:30 Cooking with Tomatoes – Damian Lehman, executive chef of Wichita Country Club
See Contest Details and Rules at http://tinyurl.com/TomatoDay2011
