Idaho Home Garden Tips

Idaho Home Garden Tips is a series of online gardening classes available to those who want to learn a little bit more about home gardening.

Classes are offered on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 7-7:30 p.m. MT, February through October, via Zoom. Classes are recorded for those who are unable to attend or want to watch portions of the class. Feel free to join in on a class or watch videos that interest you.

Plant Talk is a question and answer session offered every second and fourth Tuesday after the garden tips class (7:30-8 p.m.). Plant experts and Extension educators, Ron Patterson, Jared Gibbons and Reed Findlay, answer questions you may have about your yard and garden. Join us on Zoom to ask your questions.

• Feb 11  —Seed Shopping- what to look for when selecting seeds, Ron Patterson
• Feb 25 —Managing trees & shrubs in the landscape, Anthony Simerlink
• Mar 12 —Delayed dormant spraying, spring insect control, Marion Murray
• Mar 25 — Spring weed control, Anthony Simerlink
• Apr 8   — Soil testing, Tom Jacobsen
• Apr 22 —Spring flower, Andy West
• May 13 —Understanding and using fertilizer, Reed Findlay
• May 27 —Regenerative gardening, Jared Gibbons
• Jun 10 —Growing Grapes, Bracken Henderson
• Jun 24 — Summer flowers, Andy West
• July 8 — Vole Control, Jason Thomas
• July 22 — Chip bud grafting fruit trees, Bracken Henderson
• Aug 12 — Deer proofing your yard, Sara Mahdavi
• Aug 19 — Late season flowers, Andy West
• Aug 26 — Dehydrating your harvest, Deanna Poulsen
• Sept 9 — Other species feces, manures and how to use them, Mario de Haro-Marti
• Sept 23 — Freeze drying, Kari Ure

* Missed classes will be posted to YouTube playlist as soon as possible