Have you always wanted to grow your own food but just didn’t know where to start? The Beginning Vegetable Gardening series will provide you with the basic information on starting a vegetable garden in your own backyard or at a community or school garden plot. From choosing a site to managing your pests, the DeKalb County Extension will cover everything you need to know.
The series will start this Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 at 3pm with a program on site selection and building raised beds. Future programs will be about cool season crops, extending the growing season and garden planning. Next spring, the series will continue with a variety of other basic programs.
Placement is really everything in a vegetable garden, and the first step is to choose a site and analyze the soil. This is something you can start doing this fall in preparation for starting a garden in the spring. Learn about the best location for a vegetable garden, how to take a soil test, and find out the benefits of raised beds and how to easily build a raised bed garden.
The DeKalb County Extension is located at 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore, in the DeKalb County Farm Bureau building.
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