Learn about gardening on your lunch break
Tammi Rogers, Master Gardener Volunteer co-coordinator and Program Assistant at the Coshocton OSU Extension Office, led a class on planting and caring for herbs in one of the Lunch ‘n Learn classes at Clary Gardens. The next class, Composting, will be July 9 at the OSU Extension Office in the County Services Building. All the other classes will be at Clary Gardens.
COSHOCTON – Take a break and learn about the different aspects of gardening on your lunch break with Lunch ‘n Learn classes taught by Tammi Rogers, Master Gardener Volunteer co-coordinator and Program Assistant at the Coshocton OSU Extension Office, through July and August. Bring your lunch to the tan building at Clary Gardens and discover all the different components of the world of gardening.
For those new gardeners out there or who may not have a green thumb but still want to have a garden, herbs may just become your new best friend. Rogers led a class on Tuesday, June 25, about the many benefits of planting your own herbs and how to care for them.
“If you are just starting a garden, go with these (herbs) because they are not persnickety at all,” said Rogers. “Herbs are definitely for you because you don’t have to fuss with them a lot.”
Rogers discussed planting herbs in the right type of soil and how to add organic materials to help break up the clay soil a lot of Coshocton gardeners run into. She also explained site selection for your herb garden and to know whether your herb prefers full eight-hour sunlight, like thyme, sage, lavender, and rosemary, or part sun, five to eight hours, which includes mint, parsley, and bergamot.
Choose your landscape for your herb garden wisely, whether to do a container garden or intermixed with your vegetables. Know whether or not your herbs are annual, a life-span of one year, biannual, which have a life-span of several years, or biennial, which produce foliage the first year but bloom in their second year.
“If you plant it and it doesn’t look like it’s supposed to, just wait until next year because it might be biennial,” said Rogers.
When harvesting your herbs, smell or taste them to ensure readiness. Herbs also freeze well up to eight months. Hang in a cool, dry place.
The next Lunch-n-Learn series will be July 9 at the OSU Extension Office in the County Services Building. The rest of the classes will be at Clary Gardens.
“It’s a perfect location to take a break and be in a perfect garden setting,” said Rogers. “It seems like a perfectly natural place to hold a garden education event.”
The rest of the classes are as scheduled: July 9- Composting, July 23- Garden Insects, and Aug. 6- Groundcovers.
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