Master Gardener Week 7

March 5, 2009 was the Week 7 meeting of the master gardener class at Boerner.

The topic was vegetables.

The emphasis was on the vegetables most often grown in Wisconsin.

We talked about the three main perennial vegetables: asparagus, horseradish, and rhubarb.

The laboratory exercise was analyzing the information on vegetable seed packets in terms of best time to plant, whether to plants seeds directly into the garden or use transplants, etc.. Each table had 18 packets of seeds. Our table had a some interesting choices like radish, leaf lettuce, broccoli, melon, zucchini, carrot, tomato, turnips, etc.