Join us for 45-minute talks about growing vegetables and herbs, held at three locations around the Spring Garden Market. Bring your questions!

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Growing Great Tomatoes We'll demonstrate planting techniques, support systems, and water requirements for growing great tomatoes.

What's Wrong with My Tomatoes? Growing Healthy Tomatoes Learn how to give your tomatoes the best chance to avoid tomato diseases and pests, and how to respond to common tomato problems.  

It's Easy to Make Backyard Compost We'll give an overview of what can be composted in your backyard compost pile, and what  compost bins and tools are offered by the County of Santa Clara Home Composting Education Program. 

Maximizing Your Summer Harvest If you've always wondered how to get more from your pepper plants or how to keep beans producing longer, this one's for you! Learn important tips on getting the best production from your vegetable garden.

Love Your Santa Clara County Clay Learn how to turn your clay soil into perfect soil for gardening: the best way to dig, amend, fertilize, and mulch your soil to grow great veggies.   

Mediterranean and Drought Tolerant Herbs Add prolific blooms with pleasant fragrances to your garden by planting a variety of great herbs together. We'll cover the cultural requirements of popular, easy to grow culinary herbs, and discuss how to maintain and harvest your herb garden. 

Bean Variety Photos

Introduction

The McClellan Ranch Project is located in the community gardens of the City of Cupertino at McClellan Ranch Park. The team members interface with community gardeners there on a regular basis and discuss any problems presented during work days. The objective of the project is to do trials of vegetables that the local gardeners might be able to grow. At an appropriate time during the growing cycle, the team puts on a tasting of the vegetable(s) of the year and invites the public to the tasting. The team thus provides input to the community to help them with their gardening activities. This year beans were the vegetable of choice and 19 varieties were planted (20 if you count the Kwintus seeds from 2 sources). The public field day was held on August 11, 2007. Flyers announcing the tasting were posted in a variety of locations in Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The weekly papers for Cupertino and Sunnyvale post free announcements of events on a space available basis. Our event was not in the papers this year.