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Seed Starting w/ FWC & Backyard Blooms

Seed Starting w/ FWC & Backyard Blooms

Spring is here and it is time to prepare for a bountiful summer. Starting your own seedlings at home can save you money at the nursery and allow you to grow more varieties of plants than are often commercially available. If you have always been interested in starting vegetable, flower, or herb plants from seed at home, this informative session will help you get started. Seed starting requires only a few inexpensive supplies and can be highly enjoyable. In this hour, you will learn about requirements to ensure seedling success, appropriate timing to start your seeds, which seedlings to choose to grow with little or no experience, benefits of supplemental lighting, and how to harden off your seedlings to prepare them for transplanting to the outdoor garden.

Jason Aucoin is co-owner of Backyard Blooms along with his long-time friend and neighbor Kate Hannavan-Ross. Together they sustainably grow seasonal cut flowers for events and purchase at their farm stand on Saturday mornings at 74 Ocean Avenue, Portland. Backyard Blooms is a true urban microfarm, with approximately 1/8 of an acre in production. High intensity planting and creative planning allows them to produce thousands of stems to supply the neighborhood with quality florals each season. Jason graduated from the Maine Master Gardener program in 2009. When he is not in the garden, he works as a Neurology Nurse Practitioner at Maine Medical Center.

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06:30 PM - 06:30 PM on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

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Friends of Woodfords Corner
info@woodfordcorner.org

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meghan.kirschbaum@maine.edu
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