Starting A Vegetable Garden

The right varieties, zones and seeds are the keys to a successful vegetable garden. It’s also important to plant in a sunny spot (remember that leafy greens need only 6 to 8 hours of sunlight per day) and to practice crop rotation to reduce disease problems.

PRO-SEED: Master Gardener Nancy Osterberg will give valuable pointers. (Supplied Photo)

Vegetable gardening can be a rewarding, nutritious and economical experience for the whole family. Interested people can learn how to start and maintain a vegetable garden at the Ocean County Library’s Stafford branch with the program “Starting a Vegetable Garden? Let’s Pro-Seed!” on Monday, May 8 at 10:30 a.m.

The program, in partnership with the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Ocean County, will be led by Master Gardener Nancy Osterberg, a lifelong plant enthusiast and retired elementary school educator. She will explain the process from placement to harvest.

The Whiting resident traces her agricultural ardor back to her childhood, in which gardening was an activity shared by everyone in her family. The lifelong educator and learner strives to raise awareness of the many benefits that gardening can offer.

The talk is part of the Master Gardeners’ appearance at the branch on that day from 10 a.m. to noon. People can bring garden questions and plant or insect samples for diagnosis and recommendations. The gardeners are trained volunteers who deliver horticulture programs developed by the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension.

To register, visit theoceancountylibrary.org or call the branch at 609-597-3381.  —E.E.

Source: thesandpaper.net