Gardening 101 Overview | Friendship Gardens Charlotte

Gardening 101

An Overview

By HENRY OWEN

Gardening Coordinator for Friendship Gardens

with assistance from Kathy Metzo and Carol Adams

December 2010

Welcome to gardening 101. One of our primary goals at Friendship Gardens is to teach gardening and related topics to anyone with an interest in maintaining a food garden. Here are the topics. Click for more info:

Garden bed preparation

Plant Database

Organic pest and disease controls

Books and Websites for further study

A couple of notes on our training guides:

Gardening is a vast topic

The information we have compiled should be used to get you started, but should not be considered comprehensive. There are many approaches and techniques that can lead to successful gardening.

The techniques you will learn from Friendship Gardens are based on our success in past years, but we are always expanding our education and encourage you to do the same.

To further your education check out the links to gardening websites and books here.

Backyard vs. Production gardens

The planting techniques for a production garden, like the ones in our network growing food for Friendship Trays, are different than the planting techniques for a backyard garden.

Production gardens are designed for whole crops to be harvested at once. If your whole backyard garden matured at the same time it would leave you with way too much produce one week and none the rest of the time.

Instead, plant your backyard garden the way you eat; a little at a time. Put a couple of plants or seeds in the ground each week and you will not only spread out your garden work but you will spread out your ability to eat well and often.

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