May 2024 ACES: Prepare Your Garden
Grow More Videos – May 2024
As mentioned in the newsletter in April and May, I will spend some time introducing you to the wide-reaching range of topics that ACES has prepared to help us all become better gardeners.
Over the next few months, we will break our topics into three categories:
- Initial preparation of the garden
- What to plant and control of insects
- Growing and harvesting
The topics for this month will deal with preparing your garden. They will cover
topics such as where you want to place your garden, raised bed gardening, irrigation. A lot of the topics are relevant for both spring and fall gardens, i.e. weed control, preparing seed tape, irrigation techniques, etc.
| Topic | Speaker |
| Garden Location | David Koon – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Interpreting Your Soil Test Results | Chip East – Extension commercial horticulture regional agent |
| Planting the Spring Garden | Bethany O’Rear – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Planting the Summer Garden | Bethany O’Rear – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Weed Control | Bethany O’Rear – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Irrigation | Chris Becker – Extension Limestone County coordinator |
| Introduction to Drip Irrigation | Tim Crow – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Drip Irrigation Components | Tim Crow – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Assembly of Drip Components | Tim Crow – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Drip Irrigation Water Connection and Battery Timer Installation | Tim Crow – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Gardening in Containers | Bethany O’Rear – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Raised Bed Gardening | David Koon – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Building a Raised Bed | Shane Harris – Tallapoosa County Extension coordinator |
| Raised Bed Soil Test | Lucy Edwards – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Planting a Raised Bed | Shane Harris – Tallapoosa County Extension coordinator |
| Making Seed Tape | Caitlin Sweeney – Extension home grounds intern |
| Mulch | Bethany O’Rear – Extension home grounds regional agent |
| Crop Rotation | David Koon – Extension home grounds regional agent |