Fall Gardening

Don't know how to get started on your fall garden? Don't worry! This presentation will teach you everything you need to know to plan, plant, and maintain your fall garden. 

This class will be led by Stephen Seewoester, a Texas Master Gardener and member of the Dallas County Master Gardeners Speakers Bureau.

Stephen’s gardening roots run deep. His parents both had ties to gardening/agriculture outside St. Louis, Missouri. His mother’s family owned a truck garden and supported themselves by selling fruits/vegetables in local St. Louis markets. Stephen’s father worked as a teenager in a local nursery and assisted with the family garden as a young man. His parents grew flowers and vegetables and passed along their love of gardens to Stephen.

He has grown and experimented with many vegetables that he and his wife harvest, cook, dry, and can. Stephen continues to grow flowers, vegetables and herbs, and maintains a very large Celeste fig tree in his Dallas garden. He also has grown peaches, nectarines, cherries, strawberries, blackberries and even a fruit cocktail tree.

He attends gardening, lawn and tree/shrub seminars and volunteers as a consultant to the Vickery Meadows refugee garden in East Dallas which has more than 50 garden beds tended by gardeners from Nepal, Bhutan, Somalia and Mexico. Stephen also is assisting with the Sandy Jacobs Fruit and Nut Grove which is under development at the Denton County Office in Carrollton.