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, classes or talks.
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
- When to Harvest that Great Produce
- Less Work, More Food: A Cool Season Edible Garden
- Design and Plan the Water-wise Garden of Your Dreams
- Let a Cover Crop Do the Work!
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.
