All About Summertime Fruit Tree Care, FREE WORKSHOP at Ploughshares Nursery 2701 Main Street, Alameda CA. Saturday July 11th at noon, topics will include; disease mitigation, pest control, summer pruning to dwarf trees, proper planting technique, fertilizer vs compost (hint, compost wins), mid-season crop thinning and intensive planting methods for tiny yards-so you can have lots of fruit trees despite what your ‘know-it-all-gardening Aunt’ says bout it.

 
Berries are the Bomb(!), FREE WORKSHOP at Ploughshares Nursery 2701 Main Street, Alameda CA. July 18th at noon. Berries like Marrionberry, Blackberry and Raspberry are truly bombs of flavor which explode with goodness in your mouth, and they are easy to grow if you care to learn a few tricks. It’s also true that we sometimes wish we had a bomb to blow up that thicket of black berries which was let to run unchecked too long and now owns the garden, threatening would be pruner wielding gardeners with dagger-like thorns and impassable tangles, grrr! Join us Saturday the 18th at noon and learn how to install and maintain berry bushes so that feral blackberries never happen and also get some tips for managing an established berry nightmare with minimum spilled blood.

Loose That Lawn Incentive Program -Stop Waste.org Orientation, FREE WORKSHOP at Ploughshares Nursery 2701 Main Street, Alameda CA July 25th at noon. Ready to convert that water greedy lawn into a beautiful drought tolerant garden but don’t know how to start, don’t have time to research or worried about the expense? You can save 40% on plants purchased at Ploughshares, get a FREE home consultation by an expert landscaper and much more if you learn about this remarkable incentive plan.
There will be lemonade and melon slices so what do you have to lose? Mmm lemonade.