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EVERYTHING GARDEN CARE
SO YOU CAN DELEGATE YOUR DESIRES WITH CLARITY /OR/ DIY THIS 2023 SEASON TO YOUR TASTE
Private Guided Gardening Session
Garden with a Pro
LET’S GET YOUR GARDEN STARTED
It’s the best time to garden at home! Got questions? Need a recommendation? Rebecca’s Gardens is offering personalized Gardening Sessions. Structured as a private consultation while gardening together— get your questions answered, cultivate great new ideas, and receive recommendations on caring for your garden this season. Highlights may include, but are not limited to:
• Personalized Assessment for your garden
• On-site Q&A To Support Your DIY Gardening + Care
• Specific Gardening Work Together With A Pro
• Email Follow Up with notes reflecting our session for reference
Your Bespoke Garden Session Includes
√ Do you enjoy in-person guidance in the garden? Great!
√ Schedule An Initial On-Site Gardening Session
√ Enjoy your 1.5h — 2h session With Rebecca
√ Ask Your Qs, Learn Where To Start, Get DIY Tips
√ Keep What You Learn Handy with our Follow Up Email
√ Follow Up With Intermittent Sessions To Keep You On Track
√ Sign Up For 1x/mo at a Discount with 3 mo min
Access Your Bespoke Garden Session At
$125 1.5h $150 2h $600 1h/mo x 6
Your Garden Guidance May Include
• Links to additional relevant resources, ideas, and specific tips as needed
• Recommendations for Soil, Sun, Microclimate, Planting and Fertilization
• Tips on Planting, Growth, Cultivation, or Maintenance
• Eco-friendly Permaculture ideas
• Local Materials or Resource suggestions
• Local Supplier or Vendor suggestions
What Might You Learn In A Session?
Rebecca’s Gardens offers wisdom and experience on the following general topics (including but not limited to):
• Aesthetic ideas and functional solutions for what’s possible in your yard
• Insight into planning, phases, strategies, comparisons, and estimates
• Recommended horticultural plant species and soil amendments for almost any situation based on features such as zone hardiness, privacy, native, deer resistance, low water, sun/shade, color/season, soil quality, and more
• Suggestions on choice materials, benefits and drawbacks, such as mulches, soil, wood for raised beds, boulders, flagstones, pavers, planters, gravel, stones, organic weed control and more
• Suggestions on parts such as weed mat, edging, garden irrigation, or hand tools
• Permaculture and regenerative observations and recommendations on soil nutrients, ph balance, composting, microclimate, water, sun, soil, area usage, and how elements work together in your yard and in the environment
• Recommended vegetables, herbs, and seeds. And starter planting dates. Tailored to beginners. We offer general care and timing. We may refer you to a specialist for intermediate or advanced recommendations, for example related to heirloom varieties, pest control, tinctures, or related edible mastery.
• Additional resources for your topics of interest, such as website research, articles, videos, local specialists, classes, groups, topics, and more
• We offer 10-15 years of experience designing, installing, growing, and maintaining local gardens with the following DIY caveat:
Note: Recommendations or suggestions are based on experience and local microclimate. All recommendations can only be taken as opinion. We cannot be responsible for actual results, conditions, issues, prevention, or application. There are many additional influences we cannot predict or may not directly work with. Ideas or solutions are based on limited conversation and available information only.
DIY Garden Documentaries
For more DIY videos on cultivating your yard, plus inspiring documentaries, check out this compilation by Epic Gardens!
Online Garden Boot Camp!
Horticulture or Veggie Garden Beginners + Pros
Sign up for Monthly Online Steps
To Get Your Garden or Raised Bed In Shape
Learn How-Tos + Where To Buy + DIY
Gardening Is More Fun With A Go-To Guide — Even Online!
Your Online Bootcamp Guide Includes
Private Initial Assessment On Site
Bespoke Monthly Online ‘Curriculum’ (Suggested)
Accessible Via Website Portal + Emails
Monthly List of To-Do’s + How-To’s Based On Your Goals
Plant, Material + Vendor Recommendations
Planting Schedule, Species Tips, Food Prep Ideas
Monthly Check-In Phone Sessions For Qs + Catch Up
Season covers 5 Months: May — Sept 2023 (planting— harvest)
Customized Guidance + Resource Links To Support Your DIY In Style
Access Your Bootcamp Guide Now for $600
Who Is DIY Online Garden Bootcamp For?
Garden Bootcamp Guide is for YOU if you are a self-directed, task-oriented Do-It-Yourself-er! Let’s say you’ve got a project in mind, now, do you know what to do? Let us guide you! And it’s up to you to get it done. Ah, satisfaction. Ok, You’ll receive: Customized “Next Steps” on a Monthly Schedule + Tips + Tricks + Resources including how-to video links, recommendations + more. In-person or zoom or facetime check-Ins strategically inserted for guidance, inspiration + accountability. Keep your questions ready for each ‘checkpoint’. A final mutual review allows for a GREEN thumbs up on your achievements this season, with a REVIEW of your challenges, and an overview of what was learned with positive assessment of personal growth and takeaways. The best way to rely on professional guidance and Get it done yourself!
FAMILY + KIDS GARDEN CLASS
JOIN US THIS SPRING 2023!
Saturday Mornings 9am - 12pm
1st Week of the Month: MAY - AUG
4 Sessions + DIY Extras
Come get your hands and hearts in the garden alongside north Boulder local youth and family members for a personalized learning and practice experience!
$500 for spring-summer session
LOCATED AT
Rebecca’s Gardens: Community Plot
Foothills Community Gardens, Off of Violet and Broadway Ave (click for directions)
North Boulder
Contact Us for current availability
CLASS TOPICS • BY DATE
MAY 6th: Session 1
*starts on the 3rd Sat of the month due to Mother’s Day*
STARTER TIPS + SEASONAL HIGHLIGHTS
We’ll showcase which veggies and flowers to start when, and what each needs to get started. Learn best tips for choice color and food all season. We'll kick things off by planting "starter plants" or seeds - choose among both flowers and veggies provided - and you are welcome to bring your own! Brief introduction to medicinal plants and herbs. Make a monthly list of your favorites so you can time your garden to suit your needs. Find out where to buy additional local organic insecticide-free plants and nutrients!
JUNE 3rd: Session 2
PERMACULTURE BASICS
An introduction to the native philosophy and practical tools of this "whole systems approach" to working with the land. Highlights the benefit of your backyard local garden practices vs what can be lacking in mainstream agricultural practices. How to ask the right questions and align with nature to solve problems in your yard or microclimate more efficiently, rather than approaching issues from an isolated prescriptive approach. Actualize a new understanding and unshakable respect for the power and healing inherent in natural processes. Understanding nature leads to gratitude, heath, and the holistic well being of people, plants, and planet.
JULY 1st: Session 3
ELEMENTS OF A BALANCED GARDEN
Greater detail about how Earth, Water, Fire (Sun), and Air work together. Learn Tips To Keep Your Gardens Healthy, Happy, and Balanced. Learn watering and soil principles (including drip lines and xeriscaping), composting/recycling, amendments and mulching, and helpful/harmful things in a garden (from bees, bugs and mushrooms), to how to troubleshoot and treat for pests or disease (from slugs to black rot tomatoes). If available, we'll release lady bugs into the garden (and you can take some home if you like!)
AUG 5th: Session 4
HARVESTING + COMPOSTING
How different plants are best harvested for continued growth, and how their seeds or roots are best kept. Best composting materials and practices for Colorado. Tips like layering carbon and nitrogen for proper heat and aeration. Veggie harvesting principles for continued yield and healthy immunity, composting/recycling, amendments and mulching, and how to troubleshoot your unique location requirements. Potential Field Trip: If available, we might make a specialty jam at a neighboring farm (we’ll have to see)!
SEPT 2nd: Session 5
D-I-Y HOME GARDENING OVERVIEW
Ever wanted to plan your own affordable home garden from scratch? Building the right soil, choosing the right location and materials. Benefits of raised beds, hot houses, and hydroponics. DIY drip systems on a timer are easy to connect from your exterior hose faucet. Choose landscape design elements (flagstone, decorative rocks or gravel, mulches, and list of local companies and sources for materials). Additional Q&A based on interest. You might be asking yourself what is needed to bring your existing spaces to life or solve 'nothing grows there' areas.
Take home flowers and/or veggies for your yard!
Get The Good Dirt:
Learn To Garden with Veggies and Flowers: Basics and Intermediate
Outdoor hands-on instructional and practice group sessions
Cultivate your own designated section in a private community garden
You can also practice what you learn in your own backyard this season
Open garden hours will conveniently be posted in between sessions
We provide starter veggies and flowers, seeds, and other garden treats
Bring your own approved plants to nurture and share if you so choose
Make local connections - Garden and Learn alongside other families
Get better results with natural practices and permaculture basics
Have Fun, be active outside, and take home organic homegrown plants
Grow Like A Pro: We'll answer your questions + help you get started
SUGGESTED BRINGS!
Come Prepared! As part of learning responsible gardening practices, all participants are encouraged to prepare themselves for moderate physical outdoor activity in the sun. Best preparations include the following BRINGS:
Organic Sunscreen Play it safe in the sun.
Sun Hat / Visor Keeps hair out of face and minimizes exposure.
Water Bottle(s) For everyone. *Essential when working outdoors!*
Food and drink Please eat breakfast beforehand! The educational talk and time to enjoy your snacks is around 10:00-11:00am ish mid-morning so you can plan to bring your own edibles as befits your tribe's custom.
Hand Tools We definitely encourage you to bring hand tools if you have em! Any will do, but if you're looking for a recommendation, our fave is the orange handled Hori, a "japanese style gardening hand tool" for under $20 at McGuckins or Sturtz & Copeland Florist.
Gardening Gloves If you want, of appropriate size for everyone - Light weight with rubber coated palms $5-8 at McGuckins or Sturtz & Copeland Florist.
Basket for Personal Items Keep your personal items clean and at hand.
Bucket for Gardening Tools and Materials Keep your gardening tools together in one place as well as use this for collecting weeds, transporting compost or soil, and bringing or taking plants with you. - e.g. $8-10 for a 5 gallon, colorful rubber bucket with handles at McGuckins.
Layers of clothing Light weight long sleeves can actually help keep you cooler on hot mornings, and prevent sunburn.
Kneeling Pad or Knee Pads Only if you need em- because you'll be kneeling in the soil and on the ground.
Appropriate Shoes While flip flops or sandals are cool and easy, shoes help protect feet from stepping on stickers, stubbing toes, or tripping on uneven ground- your choice, just know you're at your own risk in nature.
Organic Hand Lotion or Oil Your skin will thank you after working with soil.
Band-Aids or Small Emergency Kit Nice to have on hand for accidental scrapes, sunburn, etc.
Notebook For notes on our educational talks. Jot down ideas or answers to your questions.
Your Curiosity, Smile, & Sense of Humor Google a good new gardening joke to tell-- or be playful with your learning because we connect and learn better when we laugh, and humor always makes life more fun for everyone!
