Propagating Pollinator Plants from Seed This Winter

Propagating Pollinator Plants from Seed This Winter

 

Including native and non-native but non-invasive plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. An inexpensive way to expand your plantings is to grow them yourself from seed. In this workshop we’ll discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds and with a few tricks how you can easily grow them. You’ll learn how to plant seeds in a plastic milk jug to stratify outside over the winter. Proper after care will be discussed as well.

Register here in advance for this virtual Zoom meeting.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Grab-and-go materials will be available while supplies last. Details will be provided during the workshop. In addition to this virtual workshop, you may be interested in the new seed library, to be housed at Miller Library. Details about this new adventure will also be provided during the workshop.

 

Date:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Online  

Jim Sirch

About the presenter:

Jim Sirch is the Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Jim was past president and is currently on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust. He also was co-founder of the Southern New England Herpetological Association and helped establish the Connecticut Amphibian Monitoring Project, which monitored amphibians on 15 sites across the state. Jim started a chapter of FrogWatch USA, a citizen science program that tracks frog populations through call surveys.

Jim is known to hundreds of science teachers across the state through his professional development activities at the Museum. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed.