Plant Propagation

Saturday 19th October

9 – 11am

 

Please join us for a Propagation Workshop and Rose (our long-term Propagation Volunteer) will help you understand the many ways to successfully make a new plant from an existing one or from seed.

Please expect demonstrations and hands-on experience by bringing along your garden gloves.

I recommend you purchase a $15 Gardener’s Guide, ‘Plant Propagating”, by Stefan Mager (sold in our Shop). This is a 4-page laminated, double-sided, fold-out guide. It describes suitable methods to propagate different types of plants using common methods such as layering, cuttings, grafting, division, offsets or pups, root cuttings and seeds.

We’ll gently collect plant material and learn why to use clean secateurs and when to use hormone powder vs. honey or aloe vera gel; why keeping the material moist is important to the outcome; and how many nodes to bury in the soil. We’ll also discuss planting seeds and what to consider.

If you’ve wondered why about cutting the leaves when propagating, come and learn why. Such plants can be found in our nursery ‘misting room’. The ‘plastic bag trick’ will be shared—without purchasing a misting system.

COST for this workshop:

$25.00 financial YCG members

$35.00 non-members

WORKSHOP CAPPED AT 15 ATTENDEES

Yandina Community Gardens is pleased to host a FREE workshop by Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste Education presenters on;

 

Monday October 14^th 2024

at the BLUE HOUSE

9 am start

for a 30 minute to one hour presentation

All community members welcome

NO BOOKINGS REQUIRED

(Note this workshop was originally advertised for Tuesday Oct 1st – this has now been changed to Monday Oct 14th)

 

You will learn more about what Sunshine Coast Council are doing to minimise and manage waste in your local area. Find out just what can go in your recycling bin and discover why the Resource Recovery Centre is much more than an old dump!

 

You can halve your weekly waste levels with backyard organic recycling.

 

• Council can show you how to set up a worm farm on your back deck or in your backyard that can help solve some of the problems you might be having with your own worm farm.
• Council can also show you how to set up a compost bin that can help solve some of the problems you might be having with your own compost bin

 

Lucky Door Prizes !!!

Council has a Worm Farm and a Compost Bin that will be presented on the day to the lucky winners

 

Also,

Council holds a free Landfill tour in November each year

for National Recycling Week.

 

For more details or to book your place on the next tour please contact Council customer service on 07 5475 7272.

Saturday August 31st 2024

9am – 11am

Permaculture was developed in the 1970s by Bill Mollison and his PhD student, David Holmgren as a way to teach people how to restore environmental balance through the practical application of ecological principles. How to utilise land and other resources sustainably. As an entirely practical concept Permaculture is equally applicable in suburbia, or on the farm; to sustainable community development or sustainable horticulture systems; enabling us to establish productive environments that provide food, energy and shelter, material and non-material needs, as well as the social and economic infrastructures which will support them.

Dave will also include other valuable disciplines including Syntropic Agriculture, Holistic Management and Korean Natural Farming. He will share ideas on how to design for bushfires and other natural disasters, getting life back into your soil, how to love your weeds and various animal management systems.

 

To book for this workshop click here

Saturday June 29^th at 9.00am

A Glut of Madagascar Beans?

You are already growing all those weird and wonderful vegetables that grow so prolifically in the sub-tropics, but you find you don’t know what to do with them other than using them as ‘chop n drop’ mulch, feeding the chooks and worms or making fantastic compost. You don’t eat them, because you don’t know how to prepare them, or what they taste like or if you will even like them if you do go to all that trouble to cook them.

If this is you, then come along to our second workshop, where Linda will demonstrate how to harvest, prepare and cook a three-course meal using one of these vegetables – the humble Madagascar Bean – as the main ingredient.

Best of all, you will get to taste-test at the end.

Recipes will include –

Entrée:-

Sundried Tomato Dip

Main:-

Veggie Patties

Dessert:-

Chocolate Jaffa Cake

COST-     $25.00 members

$35.00 non-members

WORKSHOP CAPPED AT 35 ATTENDEES.

To book for this workshop click here