Get your garden ready to grow. Learn steps that you can take now to ensure that your vegetable garden will be a success this summer. This talk will provide tips regarding soil, fertilizer, making seed tape, sowing seed, growing your own transplants from seed, and developing a planting plan that will yield year-round fresh produce whether you are gardening in containers or a garden plot.

Dennis Brown, PhD, has had a lifelong interest in gardening and has been an OSU Extension Service Master Gardener™ since 2010. He currently gardens at his home and at a community garden in Northeast Portland. As a Master Gardener, he provides research-based information on sustainable gardening practices to the public in metropolitan Portland via the Master Gardener helpline, farmers’ market plant clinics and other venues. He is on the Advisory Council for Solve Pest Problems https://solvepestproblems.oregonstate.edu , a project of the Oregon State University Extension Service, which is developing an accessible tool for Oregonians to obtain information about safely managing pests in their gardens and homes. Dennis has degrees in Horticulture (BS, MS) and Plant Biology (PhD). 

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