The Abundant Landscape:
Creating and Sustaining Healthy Soil in central Florida
The autumn cool down is here, so it’s time to begin planting winter crops. This class will cover all the basics of turning your funky sand into healthy, nutrient-rich soil, the necessity of deep mulching and deep infrequent watering to insure you create a lushly productive organic vegetables and herbs garden. The emphasis is on using natural soil foods and keeping costs low to allow you to really save on your food bill. As always I will have some cool free seeds to help get you started.
Due to folks’ varying schedule demands, I will teach the same class repeatedly every Saturday throughout November, here at my home from 11 AM until 1 PM on these dates: Nov. 8, 15, 22 and 29. The cost is $25 per student, with a $5 discount per person for groups of four or more to encourage car pooling.
A healthy organic garden requires vibrantly alive fully fertile soil...learn the techniques I used in my landscaping clients for 19 years, and that I rely on in my food self sufficiency yard as seen on Fox 13 News.
I look forward to sharing with you how I grow oodles of safe healthy food each and every year by focusing on feeding my soil.
Successful, Cheap and Easy Winter Organic Vegetable Gardening
So often, folks’ best efforts at a vegetable garden here result in wasted money, effort and time, sometimes reluctantly but desperately resorting to pesticides, only to end up with a bitter harvest of sickly or dead crops that yielded little or food for the table. I have been growing vibrantly healthy all organic veggie gardens here since 1983, helping landscape clients do the same, and this class is based on those years of experience. Students who’ve taken the class before have taken the time to thank me and to say it greatly exceeded their expectations. As always I will have some cool free seeds to help get you started too.
Due to folks’ varying schedule demands, I will teach the same class repeatedly every Sunday throughout November on the 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th here at my home from 11 AM until 1 PM. The cost is $25 per student, with a $5 discount per person for groups of four or more to encourage car pooling. I will have a handout listing reliable winter crops to help you acquire the seeds locally and from some wonderful mail order sources I trust completely.
I look forward to sharing with you how I grow oodles of safe healthy food each and every fall, winter and early spring by choosing crops that thrive in our cooler half of the year...winter gardening here can be sheer paradise!~~~~~~
My address is 3212 West Paxton Avenue, Tampa 33611. I am about 6 blocks south of Gandy and 1 ½ blocks west of MacDill on the south side...look for my jungly yard and the giant yellow house across the street. Park in the driveway behind my van and the mulched space by the street next to my mailbox, plus the yard to my east and the one to my north with the white vinyl fence.
It is helpful to me if you can let me know if you plan to attend and on which day, though walk in students are of courses welcome. In case you get lost or are running late my number is 813 839 0881....land line but I will try to keep it with me.
John Starnes