Growing & Using Salad Greens

The workshop will begin by discussing the basics of vegetable gardening: locating a garden, maintaining the garden, and selecting what to grow.  

Then we will move on to review a dozen salad greens for the garden.

Plus we will have limited sprouted seeds to give away during this event! 

More About Stephen Seewoester:

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. 

His special garden passion is herbs—more than 50 varieties—with basil being his favorite. The herbs are used in cooking and sharing with friends and relatives. His specialty is making different types of pesto.  

He attends gardening, lawn, and tree/shrub seminars and has volunteered 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 assisted with the Sandy Jacobs Fruit and Nut Grove at the Denton County Office in Carrollton. 

Stephen speaks on how to plan a garden, whether it is for herbs, flowers, or vegetables: growing and using salad greens; and how to build a compost bin and use compost in your yard and garden.