Feb 21, 2017 1 min read

Mon Valley YMCA will host gardening workshops by Little City Gardeners Hazel Murray and Peggy Brown and Penn State Master Gardeners from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturdays as follows:

• March 4 – Jump Start the Season. Topics include Looking Around the Yard and Garden, Evaluating What’s There, Kinds of Gardens, Soil Testing, Spring Cleanup, Late and Early Pruning and Starting Seeds Indoors.

• April 1 – Getting Dirty. Topics include Early Planting, Cool-Weather Vegetables, Rotating Vegetables, To Rototill or Not to Rototill, Fertilizing, Dividing Plants, Gardening in Straw Bales and Raised Beds, Container Gardening and Late Frosts.

• April 29 – Bugs and Such. Topics include Bugs: Good and Bad, Invasive Species, Planting Warm-Weather Plants, When to Water and How to Transplant Seedlings and Young Plants.

• June 3 – Paying it Forward. Topics include Sharing Your Bounty, Moving Things Around, Filling in Garden Blanks with Annuals, Planning for the Future, Edging, Pathways and general information about design

For additional information on cost, visit the YMCA’s website, www.monvalleyymca.org, or call 724-483-8077.