North Logan offering series of gardening worskhops

By Emily Redfield

April 17, 2007 | NORTH LOGAN -- The city has caught a case of spring fever this April, and is offering a gardening series in the city library that will offer nine workshops on gardening skills.

Stephanie Harrell, library employee, said these courses are very successful. The library is offering two more workshops than it did last year. People enjoy these workshops and have been asking when they will start up again, she said.

Twelve to 15 people attend the smaller session, while 25 t0 26 people attend the larger sessions, Harrell said.

These workshops are offered through the USU extension. They are funded by the school and they are offered in the North Logan city library. The library also helps advertise.

Loralee Cox, director of these programs who works for the extension, said these programs started three years ago, and have been growing every year since. Extension agents from other counties come and teach the classes.

"[The College of] Natural Resources has money left over from water conservation, and it is used to fund these workshops," Cox said.

The main goal of these workshops is to give good gardening info to the public. Some of the topics that are addressed in these workshops are: soils, groundwork for gardeners, plant disease, pruning, grass, fruit trees, ornamental plants and vegetables.

"These are topics that homeowners would like to know about," Cox said.

Another purpose of these workshops is to take knowledge that the university has acquired and share it with the community, she said.

"Sometimes homeowners don’t get correct information, and we hope to give them [the right] information," she said.

MS
MS