with Jonathan Draper, Alameda County Master Gardener
While some insects attack our vegetables, others are a great help in the garden. Come find out how to get and keep the insects you want. Alameda County Master Gardener Jonathan Draper will introduce us to beneficial insects and their use in organic gardening. He will cover a variety of his favorite “good-guy” insects and some of the “bad guys” that they eat or attack. Learn what plants you can integrate into your garden to bring in the good guys and what you can do to keep them around.
Soil, with Dolores Morrison, Alameda County Master Gardener
Weeds! With our wet winter and spring, many of us have a bumper crop despite our best efforts. This presentation will address why weeds are invading our landscape, tips on identifying your weeds, ways to manage weeds, and how to prevent them with mulches that don’t harm your health or the environment. You’ll also learn how using weeds as indicators of soil conditions can be helpful when fixing problem areas in your landscape.
About our speaker: Sherry Dunn is an Alameda County Master Gardener from the class of 2016. She is currently a backyard gardener with fruit trees and vegetables both in the ground and in containers. She loves sharing what she’s learned about weeds and how to manage them.
Please join ABG for a very special event, the first of our “off site” summer season. Jasmine Tokuda, a very successful Alameda grower of fruit trees and vines, both common and rare, is opening her garden for the evening. Jasmine will describe and demonstrate her technique for propagating fig trees through air-layering. Jasmine will then lead a tour of her garden, giving us a peek into her tips and tricks for growing those varieties that challenge us in Alameda.
We invite attendees to stay for potluck and live music after the demo and tour. Because of the size of the garden, attendance is limited. Preregistration is required at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fig-tree-propagation-demo-and-garden-tour-tickets-34528290045
If the event is already full when you try to sign up, please email alamedabackyardgrowers@gmail.com to be put on the waiting list.
Street parking is extremely difficult, and carpooling is encouraged. If you are disabled or are coming in a carpool of 3 or more, email alamedabackyardgrowers@gmail.org at least three days in advance, and we’ll arrange for nearby parking. owers.
with Jeff Bridge, of Ploughshares Nursery
Saturday, July 22, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street, Alameda Point
Want to branch out from tomatoes and lettuce? Looking for new ideas as you plan your fall garden? Join us for an early evening event at Ploughshares Nursery. Jeff Bridge, Ploughshares manager, will introduce us to some unusual fruits and vegetables to add variety to your garden.
Logistics:
- Refreshments will be served.
- Please bring a folding chair.
- Note date, time and place!
About the Speaker: Jeff Bridge has worked over half his life in nurseries all over the Bay Area, including Orchard Nursery and Florist of Lafayette, Far West Nursery in Santa Cruz and Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco. As manager of Ploughshares Nursery he is grateful for the opportunity to focus on native, drought tolerant and edible gardening to benefit society as well as working to end homelessness, as all profits at Ploughshares are used to maintain supportive housing on the old Alameda Naval Base for formerly homeless families and individuals.