7th Class: Transfer Station Fieldtrip – Sat. 10/17/09

Notes coming soon

6th Class: Pest & Disease Mgmt – Sat. 10/14/09

Pest & Disease Mgmt - presented by Pam Pierce

Prof of City College
SF Leauge of Urban Gardeners
Blog
Revised Editition
SF Chronicle Lessons for Old Gardeners
Alameda Master Gardeners - Alameda College - 3 seminars - Pam Pierce will talk about the lessons from Old Gardens

Pests, and other problems with vegetables
Problems that a gardener has:
(1) Problem of not expecting failures
(2) Assume all is hopeless, and that problem will spread to other plans

Problems growing food crops = sense of urgency - difficult figuring out what to replace with

Ornamental gardener
Growing food crops - don't want to do anything that is toxic so we think v
Goal -Address Food Gardening Problems Constructively
through IPM

Grow Your Own Microgreens & Other Baby Sprouts

You Grow Girl - Microgreens

Sprout Seeds

Resources Links

General - Start Here:
Garden For the Environment Resource Links

SF Community Gardens:
SF Community Gardens

*Managing Pests:*
UC Davis - IPM Link

A CCOF story on the 50th Anniversary of IPM

Garden / Hardware Stores:
Sloat Garden Center - Going out of Biz 20-50% sale
Flower Craft
Urban Farmer

Homework: Pest Mgmt – Wed. Oct 14

1) Observe around you the stuff that looks wrong with a plant. Make note of it.

2) Read Chapter 10 of GG Gardening