Broken Ground Permaculture will offer two informative gardening workshops in the beginning of May.
Say Goodbye to Green Tomatoes! Garden-grown tomatoes remain one of the sweetest rewards of a vegetable garden. Yet, in a cold climate, getting ripe tomatoes can often be challenging, especially if you don’t have a greenhouse. Broken Ground will offer a workshop, Growing Great Tomatoes, on Wednesday, May 11th from 6:30-8:30pm in Bozeman. This workshop will give you a tool kit of knowledge and strategies to become a successful tomato grower in Montana.
Topics include: starting tomatoes from seed, cold climate cultivars for Montana, season extension techniques, saving tomato seeds, ideas for preserving your tomato harvest and more! Kareen Erbe, your workshop instructor, has been successfully growing tomatoes in Montana for years. She and her family eat fresh garden grown tomatoes from August to December and preserved ones well into April. Class includes free handouts, resources, and recipes, complimentary tomato seedling, and discounts to Planet Natural. Cost is $30. Please sign-up in advance. For more information, location details, or to sign-up, go to brokengroundpermaculture.com/ or call Kareen at (406) 600-7881.
A Garden Bed for Small Spaces. The herb spiral garden bed is a great, functional, and beautiful design idea for your backyard garden. Especially good for small yards, the herb spiral is a garden element that saves space, reduces pathways and is a fabulous addition to an edible yard. Broken Ground’s Building an Herb Spiral Workshop on Saturday, May 14th from 1-3pm will teach you the theory behind this design. You will also help install and plant this type of bed. Other garden design ideas will also be discussed. Come spend the evening learning how to enhance a backyard space! Join in for this hands-on class.
The workshop will be held at a private residence in Bozeman. Cost is $20. Please sign-up in advance. For more information, location details, or to sign-up, go to brokengroundpermaculture.com/ or call Kareen at (406) 600-7881. •
