sunnyvale teaching and demonstration garden
Gardening Seminars
See our Events Calendar for dates and locations of upcoming gardening seminars. You can also call our hotline, 408-282-3105, M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., for details on upcoming workshops at our demo gardens, adult ed courses and free public talks.
Download the flyer for February 2012 Spring Gardening talks (one-page PDF)
Download the flyer for four adult ed courses starting from February through April: Grow Your Own Vegetables (one-page PDF)
Palo Alto Demonstration Garden
- Free, one-hour workshops
- First Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.
- Followed by Open Garden and tours and Q&A with Master Gardeners
Past and upcoming workshops include:
- Easy Drip Irrigation
- Cool Season Gardening Tips
- Saving Seeds From Your Garden and Propagating Plants
- Fall Garden Maintenance Tasks
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden
- Free, two-hour workshops
- Second Saturday of the month, 1 p.m.
- Followed by Grand Rounds in the Community Garden, with tours and Q&A with Master Gardeners
- Please note: some workshops may be on weekday evenings in the Sunnyvale library from 7-9 p.m. Check the Events Calendar for this month's workshop.
Past and upcoming workshops include
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden
Fourth Year - December, 2009
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Overview
In 2009, the Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden completed its fourth summer in its garden space at Sunnyvale’s Charles Street Community Gardens.We continued our popular series of free gardening classes in the garden and continued to grow seasonally appropriate, organically grown vegetables and ornamentals in our demonstration beds.
Teaching
This year our monthly free public classes covered topics ranging from the design and use of drip irrigation systems to garden bed preparation and planting vegetable seedlings to ways to renovate an aging home landscape. We taught seven of our classes outdoors in the community gardens’ growing circle meeting space. These classes were followed by rounds in our garden where class participants could see examples of what was taught in class, try their hands at techniques taught or learn about ways our project gardeners were meeting various gardening challenges. Two classes were taught in the Sunnyvale Public Library. Overall, 432 gardeners attended our nine project classes.
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden
Third Year, 2008
Planting Seedlings in Your Garden
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden, Charles Street Community
Garden; near Charles Ave. & Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, 94086
See a planting demonstration for the tomato and pepper plants you've recently purchased at our community garden's plant sale (or at the Master Gardeners' April 4 Spring Garden Market, if you shop there!) Stay and get your gardening questions answered by a team of Master Gardeners.
Followed by Grand Rounds in the garden - tour the garden with Master Gardeners and bring your questions!
Low-flow Irrigation Systems
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden, Charles Street Community Garden; near Charles Ave. & Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, 94086
Learn from Master Gardeners about the components of low-pressure drip irrigation systms you can easily assemble for your vegetable OR ornamental garden - including low-water ornamental gardens.
Followed by Grand Rounds in the garden - tour the garden with Master Gardeners and bring your questions!
Design and Plan the Water-Wise Garden of Your Dreams
Sunnyvale Library, 665 W Olive Ave, Sunnyvale, 94086.
Wed, Sept 17
Fall is the best time to plant ornamentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Come and learn how to design your dream garden, get ideas of the plants most suited to our area, and where to find them.
Less Work, More Food: A Cool Season Edible Garden
We're lucky to live in a climate where we can garden year-round and now's the time to start thinking about your winter garden. You'll leave with a six-pack seeded with winter vegetables.
Followed by Grand Rounds in the Community Garden.
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden
Second Year, 2007
