Winter Sowing Native Plants
February 4 | 6 – 7 pm
Harmony Library, Chepachet RI
Interested in learning how to grow your own native plants? Our team will provide gardeners with the materials and information needed to winter sow native plants. Gardeners will sow seeds into a gallon milk jug and will be provided with instructions for winter care, transplanting, summer care, and fall planting. Gardeners will be provided with seeds to take home for additional sowing.
Gardeners will need to bring a 1 gallon clear/translucent milk jug. Gloves (optional).
In addition, gardeners will need to have an outdoor place to store the milk jug over the winter.
Gardeners will be provided with links to websites that will provide information
• How to hold the jugs over the winter and transplant the seedlings from the jugs to pots
• How to grow the seedlings over the summer and plant the seedlings into the ground
• Gardening guides for plants native to Rhode Island
We are a team of Master Gardeners and Rhode Island Wild Plant Society members, including Betsy Lennon, Susan Ricercato, Kristen Buckley, Mark Cordle, Kate Sullivan, Elaine Roman, Noelle Wood, Mari Nadolny, Mary OConnor and Tricia Cass. We are coodinating with the Grow Rhode Island Native Seeds (GRINS) organization to provide winter sowing workshops. We have been working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for several years to create native plant gardens at Kettle Pond, Trustom Pond, and Sachuest Point and to propagate and plant thousands of native plants at wildlife refuges, schools, and public parks throughout Rhode Island.
This program is offered at Harmony Library, 195 Putnam Pike, Chepachet, RI 02814. Reregister for this event online at https://www.glocesterlibraries.org/events.html (on the ‘Events’ calendar) or call the library at 949-2850.