Spring Blitz

Master Gardener and Garden Club of Switzerland member, Dianne Battle will be giving a class on making hypertufa garden items at the Saturday, March 7^th annual ‘Gardening Blitz- an intensive day of gardening education’.  The event will be held at the St. Johns County Extension Office. Throughout the day concurrent classes will be conducted in the agriculture center auditorium. There will also be a Master Gardener plant sale during the hours of the event. The agenda is as follows:

9-10 Wildflower gardening or History of Gardening

10-11 Starting from seed or Hydroponics

11-12 Everything Orchids or Vegetable Gardening

12-1 Lunch Break & garden tours

1-2 Rain Barrels or Attracting birds for insect control

2-3 Composting or Making Hypertufa containers

The event is open to the public and participants can attend any single lecture for $5.00 or multiple sessions (or an entire day) for $10. Lunch is on your own but snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the day. The rain barrel and composting classes are ‘make and take’ classes. You can just attend the lecture but if you want to make a unit at either class the fees are as follows: composters- large $65 or small $60, rain barrel $40. The units are made from 30 or 55 food grade drums. Registration deadline is February 27^th. Call 209-0430 to register and indicate what classes you wish to attend and whether you want to make a unit in the rain barrel or composting class.  See the County Extension Center website for their location.