Balcony Gardening with Durham Master Gardeners

This workshop will provide participants with the necessary knowledge to successfully grow flowers and vegetables in containers. Topics covered include starting plants from seed, selecting containers, soils and potting mixes, what to grow, design and site considerations, and companion planting.

About the presenters:

Laurelee Stocks has been volunteering with the Toronto Zoo for many years and is involved with other community groups. Laurelee has completed the Horticulture Certificate from the University of Guelph and considers herself a lifelong learner. She is passionate about starting plants from seeds, native plants, and growing vegetables. She loves being outside and you will usually find her out in all types of weather walking her dog or working in her garden.

Kyla Paonessa received the Irene Kock Environmental Awareness Award for the Aldonschool Court Pollinator Garden Project, leading a community initiative that turned a grass cul-de-sac island in her neighbourhood into a pollinator garden featuring more than 350 native plant species.

Part of our Seed Library Event Series. For more Seed Library and Gardening events visit pickeringlibrary.ca/seedlibrary