Noon | Container Gardening, with Mike Heys and Kelley Hughes
Learn how to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers in containers on the porch, deck, front steps, or in the landscape.
1:00 pm | Edible Perennial Plants for the Backyard, with Tisa Watts
Discover which “permanent” plants offer the best food value for your family. We will discuss vegetables, trees and bushes, vines, and berries that thrive in central Ohio’s backyards. Plant your perennial edibles this summer, and enjoy the harvest for years to come!
2:00 pm | Is Beekeeping Right for You? with Dave Noble
Learn how you can support a healthy pollinator community by raising bees in your backyard.
3:00 pm | Backyard Fruit Production, with Bill Johnson
Learn which tree fruits and berries will provide a harvest of fresh fruit in your backyard.
4:00 pm | Starting a Vegetable Garden in Your Backyard, with Mike Hogan
Learn how you can enjoy vegetables and herbs fresh from your own backyard!
5:00 pm | Winning a Dispatch Backyard Garden Award: Is Your Garden Next? with Missy O’Malia
Come see dazzling photos of winning gardens from the Dispatch Backyard Garden Awards program and learn how your garden might become the next winner!
Noon | Native Plants for Your Backyard, with Tisa Watts
Learn how to add low-maintenance beauty to your landscape with hardy native shrubs, trees, and perennials well suited to Ohio’s climate. Learn a few simple tricks to help your native plants thrive.
1:00 pm | Herb Garden Remedies, with Sarah Clement
Garden plants can be more than part of a flavorful meal. Learn how homemade herbal preparations can be allies during times of illness and discomfort.
2:00 pm | Pruning Trees and Shrubs in the Home Landscape, with Tisa Watts
Come for a basic overview of pruning tools and techniques to control plant size, health and integrity. Learn the correct methods to trim a variety of woody plants including lilacs, hydrangeas, roses and hedge plants like boxwood and yew.
3:00 pm | Goldsmith-Gardening for Wellness, with Fran Sevel
Learn how gardening can positively affect physical and mental health.
4:00 pm | Gardening to attract Pollinators, with George Peach
Learn how to select and maintain plants which bees, butterflies and other pollinators will be attracted to year after year.
Today Only! Free Zoo tickets to the first 2,000 guests, courtesy of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, AEP Ohio and Fifth Third Bank.
2:00 pm | Native Bees and Beehouse Design, with Tisa Watts
Welcome Ohio’s gentle native bees into your garden with the right habitat and a bee house! Learn about their unusual lifecycle and simple ways we can help these prolific pollinators flourish in suburban areas. Includes pointers on bee house design.
3:00 pm | Soil Testing for Better Flowers, Vegetables and Lawns, with Mike Hogan
Learn how simple soil testing can help you decide what nutrients are needed to make your yard and garden flourish.
2:00 pm | Extending the Gardening Season for Your Vegetable Garden, with Mike Hogan
Learn how to use simple technologies for extending the growing season for vegetables in to fall and even winter in Ohio.
3:00 pm | Starting A Vegetable Garden, with Tisa Watts
2:00 pm | Container Gardening, with Mike Hogan
No space for a large garden? No problem! Get tips to grow beautiful flowers and vegetables in containers and small spaces.
3:00 pm | Native Bees and Beehouse Design, with Tisa Watts
Welcome Ohio’s gentle native bees into your garden with the right habitat and a bee house! Learn about their unusual lifecycle and simple ways we can help these prolific pollinators flourish in suburban areas. Includes pointers on bee house design.
2:00 pm | Attracting Pollinators to Your Backyard, with Dianne Kadonaga
Learn how to select plants and redesign your yard to attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators.
3:00 pm | Edible Perennial Plants for the Backyard, with Tisa Watts
Discover which “permanent” plants offer the best food value for your family. We will discuss vegetables, trees and bushes, vines, and berries that thrive in central Ohio’s backyards. Plant your perennial edibles this summer, and enjoy the harvest for years to come!
4:00 pm | Backyard Conservation, with Dianne Kadonaga
Learn how you can harvest rainwater, compost plant material and food scraps, and use native plants to create a sustainable landscape in your backyard.
Noon | Gardening to Attract Birds, with George Peach
Gardening is for the birds. Learn how to select plants, which will attract an abundance of birds to your backyard.
1:00 pm | Making Groundcovers Work for You, with Matt Morrison
Learn which ground covers work best in different parts of your property.
2:00 pm | Is beekeeping right for you?, with Dave Noble
3:00 pm | Growing Strawberries in Your Backyard, with Dr. Gary Gao
Learn how to grow the sweetest, plumpest, juiciest strawberries in the neighborhood!
4:00 pm | Ohio Wild Animal Ambassadors, with Ohio Wildlife Center
Come meet some wild animals native to Ohio and learn about the natural history of Ohio’s native mammals, reptiles and birds.
5:00 pm | Container Gardening, with Marcia Armstrong and Temple George
Noon | Herb Garden Remedies, with Sarah Clement
Garden plants can be more than part of a flavorful meal. Learn how homemade herbal preparations can be allies during times of illness and discomfort.
1:00 pm | My Experience with the World Renowned Philadelphia Flower Show, with Nick McCullough
Come hear stories about the beauty and majesty of one of the finest flower shows in the world.
2:00 pm | Seed Starting, with Fran Sevel Goldsmith
Find out how to get the jump on spring planting by starting seeds indoors.
3:00 pm | Making Your Own Faux Stone Planters for Your Yard and Garden, with Sam Shy
Once you get past their odd name, the homemade faux-stone planters known as hypertufa containers have a place in any garden and make a fun do-it-yourself project.
5:00 pm | Plant Sale
Talk with landscapers in each garden about what’s for sale and prices.