Golden Gate Garden

City College classes start this week, and I will be teaching 101, Garden Practices, which starts on Saturday, August 19th. The class meets Saturdays, 9 to 12, earns 3 units of college credit, and can be taken either for a grade or C/NC, which means "Pass/Fail." It is a truly basic gardening class, with plenty of info and hands on activities to interest intermediate gardeners as well. The lab is in a large demonstration garden, and we have full use of greenhouses and other facilities as well.

Topics include seeds and seeding, soil, compost, watering, climate and microclimate, growing annuals, biennials, bulbs, trees and shrubs, vegetables and fruit trees, container and house plants, plant selection, pruning, and managing pests in environmentally friendly ways. I often say a green thumb is learnable, and this is the class in which I teach how to have one.

If you are interested, you can learn how to enroll in this class by looking on the City College website (www.ccsf.edu). You can come to the first class to get an add code (which you need to enroll), or you can get one by emailing me at ppeirce@ccsf.edu. Got questions? Go ahead, ask me, and I will try to tell you what you need to know to decide if this is a class for you.