Workshops & Garden Events
DIVE INTO THE BUZZ - Creating a Pollinator Garden
Learn how to craft a garden that's buzzing with life and bursting with color. From selecting nectar plants to creating cozy nesting spots, you can create a pollinator sanctuary to the bees, butterflies, including monarch butterflies, and let’s not forget the hummingbirds! Speaker: Catharina Soesetyo, Blissful Growing Kitchen Garden Consultants in Los Angeles.
GREENTHUMB 101 - Cultivating a Kitchen Garden
Part one of a garden workshop series at Alhambra Civic Center Library. Learn tips and get advice for getting your kitchen garden off to a great start. Know what common mistakes to avoid in order to save time and money when setting up a vegetable garden. The class is presented by Catharina Soesetyo, garden consultant and owner of Blissful Growing.
Raised Bed Drip Irrigation
Learn how to set up and customize drip a irrigation system according to your garden needs. BONUS: Participants receive a Hose cutter and a Drip line hole puncher in their goodie bags and a chance to WIN a RAISED BED KIT!
Registration is $45 per person. Sign up via kat@blissfulgrowing.com
Pesto Garden
A hands-on workshop, where you learn to grow herbs for that homemade pesto! What to do with nursery bought seedlings, how to transplant and care for them, and get tips on how to get a bountiful harvest. Registration includes all materials needed for the workshop, plus goodie bag and raffle prizes. Sign up via email to kat@blissfulgrowing.com.
Starting a Kitchen Garden
Avoid the common pitfalls when growing vegetables at home. In this free seminar Kat will go over the basics things you need to consider when starting a kitchen garden for a successful harvest. Headcount is appreciated. Please email kat@blissfulgrowing.com to reserve your seat.
Growing Tomato
Let’s grow tomatoes! We will talk about types of tomatoes, how to plant and care for them. Get to know what grows well with tomatoes to improve the harvest. This is a hands-on workshop. So get ready to get your hands in the dirt! See workshop details here. Email kat@blissfulgrowing.com to sign up.
Monarch Butterfly Garden
In this free seminar, learn about growing and caring Milkweed in your garden as a way station for Monarch butterflies. Email kat@blissfulgrowing.com to reserve your seat.
Starting a Kitchen Garden
Avoid the common pitfalls when growing vegetables at home. In this free seminar Kat will go over the basics things to consider when starting a kitchen garden.
Grow Microgreens
A hands on workshop where you learn to grow Microgreens at home with minimal cost with home garden expert and certified kitchen garden consultant, Catharina Soesetyo. Learn the healthy benefits of Microgreens with a registered dietician, Sophie Hung.
Root Vegetables Garden
Free Seminar.
Reserve your seat via email: kat@blissfulgrowing.com
Learn to organically grow and care root vegetables from seeds. Find out the pros and cons of growing root vegetables in containers, raised beds, and in ground. Get expert tips and personal experience nuggets on growing root veggies.
This is a demonstration class.
Appropriate for kids gardening.
Options to purchase materials at the nursery.
Valentine Edible Garden
Valentine Edible Garden at Glendora Gardens Nursery (map).
Saturday, February 12 at 10:00 am.
Choose from a combination of herbs, salad greens and edible flowers and create a custom gift for your gardener or cook friends, while learning about edible vegetables gardening in container.
Registration: $50 by email to kat@blissfulgrowing.com
Offer: $5 off for past attendees and early birds if register by February 6th. Spots are limited to 12. Reserved yours today!
Mini Salad Garden
Create your own mini salad garden in a chic planter, using organic soil and plants. Learn about container/small space gardening, and how to spruce up a plate of salad into a pretty and interesting dish.