Gardening Classes
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Attention all gardeners! Join Advanced Master Gardener Renee Marsh for these informative and inspiring gardening classes. All are held at the Monroe Senior Center from 7:00-8:30pm.
Gardening Basics
Discover the ways that you can work with nature to achieve outstanding results. This intensive two-part series explores the fundamentals of gardening: how to nurture healthy soil, choosing plants suited to your garden, planting and fertilizing properly, controlling pests without the use of pesticides, pruning, tool selection and more...create a great-looking garden that's healthier for you, your family, your pets and the environment. Beginners welcome!
Vegetable Gardening
Want your own vegetable garden but haven't a clue where to start? Then this is the class for you. It is designed for beginners and will cover how to set up and cultivate a small vegetable garden. You will learn the basics of how to create a garden, prepare the soil and choose the best crops for our climate. We will also discuss how to manage weeks, insects and common diseases with a focus on organic approaches.
Perennial Gardening
Tired of gardens that take too much care? Done with replanting annuals year after year? Then it's time to learn more about how to have a beautiful, low maintenance perennial garden. This class will take you through the fundamentals of soil and light requirements and how to select the right plants. We will also look at how to properly plant perennials, how to maintain your garden through the seasons including pruning and pest management. Finally, we will review some low maintenance plants that thrive in our climate.
Garden Design Basics
Unhappy with your current landscaping but don't know quite how to fix it? This class explores the principles of landscape design. We will look at good (and not so good) examples to help you understand basic concepts like proportion, form, texture and color. Then learn how to develop a basic plan based on the style you want and how to select plants that match that plan.
Registration
Place programs in cart and follow instructions all the way thru. You can either pay online or create a registration form and pay by check. If paying by check you must include your driver’s license number or your registration will be returned. Once we receive your check, we apply it to your online registration form. No one is registered until payment is received and applied to your online registration form. If you do not create an online registration form and come to our office for us to create one for you, an additional $10 fee will be assessed.
Refunds
Requests must be submitted in writing. They will be prorated and $10 processing fee is withheld from each program withdrawal. The balance will be applied to your household account to use for a future program. If the refund is due to medical reasons, a full refund will be issued as long as your request is accompanied by a doctor’s note.
The Monroe Parks and Recreation Department reserves the right to change schedules/locations as necessary and cancel programs due to insufficient registration or lack of instructor(s)