The Designer Gardens

When we received an email from a student about her blog, we just couldn’t resist sharing! Rebecca, from Mountain View, attended our Backyard Chicken-Keeping Class this past September and has been posting great pictures of her flock’s development on her gardening blog. If you’d like to add a few of these cute critters to your garden this spring, sign up for this Sunday’s class! In it we share with you all the info you need to care for the 3 baby chicks and brooder kit you take home at the end of the day. How could you resist these plush babies?

Here’s another picture of them at 2 weeks old, discovering the sun after a few weeks of brooding under heat lamps:

They are starting to develop their feathers!

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I just heard from one of my students, Mike Hogan, who took my Early Spring Vegetable Gardening class on February 13, plus paid careful attention when I talked about my method for planting tomatoes.  Mike was kind enough to send me the above picture of what his garden looks like now, in the summertime. His daughter, Fiona, is posing delightfully in the center of it. 

Here is what Mike put in his tomato planting holes, my recommended fish heads, shell bodies, and eggshells, among other things:

Mike also sent me a photo of how his garden changed from taking the class on February 13 to May 2, the results of that specific class:

I like the straw mulch, that bountiful Mizuna and Red Frizzle Mustard. I

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