Enjoy Your Garden with Containers and Raised Beds, a program of University of Maine Cooperative Extension

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Call 1-800-287-1491 (in Maine) or (207) 564-3301

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Enjoy Your Garden with Containers and Raised Beds: Agenda

8:45 am	Arrive and registration and coffee
9:00 am	Introductions
9:15 am	Planning Your Garden What plants need to grow What to plant
9:45 am	Container Gardening What to grow in a containers Types and sizes of containers Media / mulch / fertilizer Vertical Gardening and Trellising Where to put your container Basic container maintenance Container Garden Activity
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Raised Beds Types of raised beds (on ground, square foot, raised) Site your raised bed Building raised beds Soil / Media / mulch / fertilizer Raised Bed Maintenance Lasagna gardening Square Foot Gardening
12:00 noon	Bring your own lunch (beverages will be provided)
12:30 pm	Raised bed activity Planning your raised bed garden
1:00 pm	Garden Maintenance Watering Feeding Weeding Rotation Pest management Season extension Starting seedlings Succession planting Frost protection
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Hands on Activity Make a newspaper pot Start a pot of seedlings Transplant a seedling (take home plant)
3:15 pm	Wrap up Evaluation Safe trip home

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