Starting Vegetable Seedlings Webinar

University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Gila County presents: Garden and Country Extension Webinar Series.  A Zoom webinar (60-minutes or less) featuring a variety of horticultural and natural resource topics relevant to the environmental conditions and residential concerns of Gila County, Arizona.

Featured Topic: Starting Vegetable Seedlings Webinar

Featured Speaker: Richard Johnson is an organic gardener in Arizona with over 20 years of experience. Rich moved to Tucson in 1988 and learned desert gardening and composting from the Tucson Organic Gardeners club that is now in its 49th year. He moved to Payson in 2018 where he provides volunteer leadership to the local gardening community and as a Gila County Master Gardener.

Webinar Overview: Learn how Rich starts and germinates his own vegetable seedlings indoors for his summer garden.  He’ll start with the basics of selecting seed types that are appropriate for the season and then show his step by step process for growing healthy “starts” to plant in the garden in May in Payson, AZ.   Included will be choosing a potting soil, soil prep, filling seedling trays, planting, growing under grow lights, transplanting into pots and finally planting into the garden.

Webinar Facilitator: Chris Jones, Extension Agent, University of Arizona Gila County Cooperative Extension

Zoom Link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86306023664 Please log in up to 10 minutes prior to the webinar.

Cost: Free

Registration: Not required