Saturday, January 10, 11am-12:30pm or 1:30-3pm. Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street, Newton).
This workshop will give you the tools you need to spark your own pollinator garden. Soil, native seeds and one empty one-gallon milk jug will be provided, and you will get to bring home your own mini-greenhouse in a bottle. You are invited to bring an extra one or two empty milk jugs if you want to plant and bring home a variety of seeds.
Winter seed sowing is a technique for starting native plant seeds outdoors in containers during winter to create optimal conditions for germination and growth when spring returns. It mimics the natural process of seeds falling to the ground in autumn and being stratified by New England’s cold and wet winter weather, while providing protection from critters and adverse weather, resulting in a very high germination success rate.
There will be two identical sessions of this workshop. Please sign up for either the morning session (11am-12:30pm) or the afternoon session (1:30-3pm).
The program is co-sponsored by the Newton Free Library, Newton Community Pollinator Project (NCPP), Newton Conservators, and Friends of Cold Spring Park.