Class: Growing Great Tomatoes
Venue: The Hale Community Garden & Roper Solar Greenhouse, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, May 6, 2012
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: $15.00
Description:
Learn which tomatoes have really great flavor and reliable production and are able to hold up under regular garden conditions.

You will learn trellising methods, soil preparation, and how to avoid the brown crispy foliage blues so a bountiful harvest will be yours until frost. You’ll even take home some tomato seedlings to get you started.

Instructor Johanna Cricenti has been growing organically certified vegetables since 2002 and Jenny Schwanke is the Y’s Garden Coordinator.

The Hale-YMCA Gardens is located at 215 Maywood Street in Blacksburg.

Please register for classes at least 3 business days before the class begins. If you would like to register the day the class begins, please call 540-961-9622 to register by phone.

For more information, visit: http://www.vtymca.org/f/Spring_2012_online1.pdf or call: 540-961-9622.

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