Registration is now open for URI's Summer Gardening School, which runs Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm from June 5 through August 21. You must register in advance for the sessions ($15 each), and it is first-come, first-served: attendance is limited to 25 people. Sessions are led by many of the same people who teach the Master Gardener course, and there is extensive time in URI's beautiful botanical gardens, sustainable landscape, and vegetable gardens. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to manage your own gardens better: maybe figure out what you did this spring that created problems and what you are doing right (and why!). See the registration form for more details.
Many Rhode Islanders have heard of the URI Master Gardeners, which I understand is the largest volunteer group in the state. The URI Master Gardener course just finished last week (April 25). Registration for the next course at URI, which will begin in January if previous years' schedules are followed, will be in the early fall. There is always a waiting list, so apply early!
A Master Gardener class MIGHT also be held at the new Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park one of these days. Ask Rosanne Sherry for information if this interests you. URI and the Providence Parks Department are working together to get more training sessions for gardeners at the Botanical Center. The Spring Gardening School began earlier this month.
If you don't have time this year for a gardening class, stash the idea in the back of your mind that there are more and more opportunities in Rhode Island to learn about gardening. Some year it may work out for you. After several years of wanting to take the Master Gardener course, I finally worked it into my life this year, and I completely enjoyed it.
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