Name: You Can Garden Too: Pruning and Trellising Your Tomatoes
Start: 2024-06-30T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-30T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Queens Botanical Garden

You Can Garden Too: Pruning and Trellising Your Tomatoes

Attendees will learn techniques and methods of pruning and trellising all summer crops for maximizing harvest.
About this Event

Attendees will learn about pruning, trellising and how to maximize harvest in small growing spaces. The focus of this session is tomatoes but we will go over other summer crops. Participants can take seedlings to bring home! All materials provided. Recommended for adults.
$26 Non-Member / $20 Member* (includes garden admission)

Registration required. Drop-ins welcome upon availability.

Location: QBG Farm

Instructors: This lesson will be taught by the Farm Manager and Compost Manager.

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GARDEN ETIQUETTE

QBG staff strives to provide a place of peace, beauty, and safety for the quiet enjoyment of our visitors. QBG is a living museum, a collection of gardens for the study, culture, exhibition, and display of plants. We encourage our visitors to explore, enjoy, and be respectful of our plant collections and to be considerate of fellow guests as well. For more guidelines on garden etiquette, visit our website.

GETTING TO QBG

By public transportation, take the number 7 subway line to Main Street, the Long Island Rail Road (Port Washington line) to Main Street/Flushing, or the Q44-SBS or Q20 bus. For driving directions and more information, please visit our website.

PARKING

On-site parking is available year-round during Garden open hours at the Parking Garden, located at 42-80 Crommelin Street, Flushing, NY 11355. For parking fees, please check our website or call 718.886.3800.

ABOUT QBG

QBG is an urban oasis where people, plants and cultures are celebrated through inspiring gardens, innovative educational programs and real-world applications of environmental stewardship. QBG is located on property owned by the City of New York, and its operation is made possible in part by public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Queens Borough President, the New York City Council, State elected officials, the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, along with corporate, foundation, and individual supporters. For more information, visit www.queensbotanical.org or call (718) 886-3800.