Class 1 – Getting Started in Your Garden: This recorded one-hour tutorial led by Kathy Cropp is packed with all the information you need to get organized to garden better.

• Clear instruction and easy-to-use, downloadable forms
• Guidance on how to test your soil to determine necessary amendments for better growth
• Help understanding your USDA Zone to make better plant selections
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• A robust reading and resource list to give you a firm foundation upon which to grow
• And more!

Class 2 – Botany Basics is so in-depth it’s a two-part, two-hour recorded class! Kathy Cropp’s teaching style makes botany fun as you cover these topics.

• Plant taxonomy and classification
• Techniques to identify plants in your own garden
• How to name the parts of a plant, a flower and root structures
• How to select ornamental plant groups for your own landscape
• The various ways plants reproduce
• The essentials to plant growth and survival
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• Additional reading and resource lists to deepen your understanding
• And more!

Class 3 – Environmental Effects on Your Garden: Join Kathy Cropp for this recorded tutorial on how light, water and soil impact the growth of your plants, and how better understanding these factors will help you grow a healthier garden. It’s an hour of information that will change the way you garden for the better.

• You’ll learn various irrigation methods vital to plant health
• Discover the types of food plants need, and why they need them
• Delve into the choices you have as a gardener to provide the right food
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• Additional reading and resource lists guide you into further exploration of the topics
• And more!

Class 4 – Proper Plant Selection & Maintenance with Kathy Cropp is a recorded workshop that outlines everything you need to know to choose the right plants for the right spots in your growing areas.

• Review a variety of options for built garden beds for any location
• Learn how to identify and prevent weeds (and save yourself work)
• Better understand the importance of mulching for healthier plants
• Understand general maintenance practices for every season so your garden doesn’t get out of control
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• Additional reading and resource lists help you know what to do when
• And more!

Class 5 – Solutions to Common Problems is 75 minutes of a recorded class session with Kathy Cropp packed with diagnostic tools to identify the pests that want to run riot in your garden, and solutions for dealing with them.

• Learn how to identify the bad bugs in your garden and understand what harm they can cause
• Discover, and learn why you should appreciate, the good bugs in your space
• Learn diagnostic processes to identify plant diseases—what causes them, how to identify them and how to treat them
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• Additional reading and resource lists provide so much information you may want to call yourself the Garden Detective
• And more!

Class 6 – Honing Your Essential Skills is the final one-hour recorded tutorial of Session One with Kathy Cropp that teaches you step by step the right way to perform a variety of necessary garden chores. Think you know how to dig a hole? Think again! You’ll get useful instructions on digging and more.

• The correct way to dig a hole, transplant, divide and separate plants
• Instructions on how and when to prune and deadhead
• Understand why, when and how to pinch and disbud a plant
• Understanding sexual propagation (seeds) and asexual propagation (cuttings)
• Starting plants indoors from seed
• Proper care and maintenance of essential tools
• An extensive vocabulary list with definitions of terms
• Additional reading and resource lists provide even more information round out your skill set
• And more!