Gardening 101: A Guide For Growing & Caring For Plants

A gardening class for everyone! No prior experience necessary - all you need is a desire to grow something useful, edible, beautiful, or for the birds. 

I’m excited to share some tips I’ve picked up from a lifetime of earth tending. Whether you live in an apartment in the city, have a small suburban lawn, or live in a rural landscape - you can take notes from this class and apply them to growing flourishing plants in any scenario.

In “Gardening 101" you will learn:

• Basic gardening concepts
• Plant propagation techniques: Seed Starting, Divisions, & Cuttings
• Garden planning & maintenance
• Plant harvesting & storage
• Suggested herbs for the home garden

For your class project, you'll take an herbaceous cutting which will allow you to quickly double the size of your house plant or herb garden collection!

Materials you'll need:

• Notepad
• Sharp pair of scissors or pruners
• Glass of water
• A plant you would like to take a cutting of
• A pot of soil or a place outdoors where you can plant your rooted cutting

My gardening journey started in my mother’s rock garden, led me to start more gardens than I care to count, landed me a job as greenhouse technician at the University of Pennsylvania, and finally brought me to managing a garden of my own for my business. I wonder where earth tending will take you!

Special thanks to:

• Zoë Miller for all plant illustrations
• Hugo Genes for Cinematography
• Sarah Elizabeth Buckner for Styling

• Introduction
• Class & Project Overview
• Propagation: Seed Starting
• Propagation: Divisions
• Propagation: Cuttings
• Garden Planning
• Maintaining Your Garden
• Harvesting & Storage
• Bonus: Suntrap Garden Walk
• Thank You!