Join me at Spring Gardening School this Saturday

...and more spring events you won't want to miss!

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I’m entering your inbox mid-week today to invite you to join me at the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s virtual Spring Gardening School on Saturday and tell you about a few other spring gardening events that might interest you.

Spring Gardening School will be held via Zoom this Saturday, March 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (EDT).

I’ll be presenting a program on Uncommon Vegetables to Grow—and How to Eat Them, and will show you how to grow fun and delicious edibles like Peruvian oca, tatsoi, garden huckleberry, bitter melon, beautiful candy-striped Chioggia melon, cucamelons, ice plant, tomatillos — and so many more.

I’ll also be introducing the day’s keynote speaker, New York Times gardening writer Margaret Roach, who will present “Non-Stop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days.”

Once upon a time, Margaret, who was the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living Magazine, was my predecessor as Newsday’s gardening columnist in the 1990s. Today, she runs the "A Way to Garden" website, newsletter and podcast and has written several wonderful books.

Other programs in the day’s curriculum will include “Why do the How-to’s," "Grow What you Love," "Native Plant ‘Lawn,’ " "Four-Season Garden," "Pollinator Pathway," "Invasive Nightmares," "Olmsted’s Legacy" and "Herbs & Spice."

Don’t miss it!

To register, visit bit.ly/CCE-Suffolk2022springschool

And in case you missed it, be sure to check out my interview with P. Allen Smith, who will be speaking at this year’s Gardening Symposium at Colonial Williamsburg. You can attend in person (Virginia is beautiful in springtime) or virtually from home.

More details and registration information are here.

And, of course, there’s the world-famous Philadelphia Garden Show, which will be held this year from Saturday, June 11 through Sunday, June 19, 2022.!

Details, tickets and hotel packages are here.

Get 20% off a jump on your growing season with my award-winning Day-by-Day Gardening Calendar. It’s like a complete gardening course in a wall calendar — with me “stopping by” every day with a helpful tip or chore to keep your garden on track. I promise you’ll have earned a green thumb by the end of the year! Plus, your wall will be adorned with beautiful photography provided by The Weekly Dirt readers. (Sale ends Sunday, March 27). Take a look:

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Until next week, stay safe. Be well. And always keep your mind in the dirt. —Jessica