Welcome to the Pitt County Arboretum: GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES

Saturday, April 2, 2011

GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES - SQUARE FOOT GARDENING

This month's free Walking Tour of the Pitt County Arboretum will feature Square Foot Gardening. Wikipedia has a brief description of this type of intensive gardening which you can view by clicking here. To go to the source though Mel Bartholomew has created an all inclusive web page to view by clicking here. There you will enter his Square Foot World.

On the tour, you will also see how spring weather has started to green up the Arboretum. Come out and join the Master Gardener Volunteers for a leisurely stroll around the gardens. They will help you understand the diagrams below. Click on the map in the right column for directions.

TOUR DATE: Thursday, April 7th

Starting at 9:00 AM

Tours last about an hour and are given rain or shine.

Meet under the Green Roof Shelter in front of the Ag Center.

Diagrams for SFG

ARBORETUM MISSION

FRIENDS OF THE PITT COUNTY ARBORETUM

To help support and expand our beautiful Arboretum and to strengthen our teaching, demonstration, and outreach programs, become a Friend of the Arboretum. Started in 2002, the nonprofit Friends organization plays a critical role in preserving and perpetuating an important local cultural resource. The Arboretum depends on memberships and gifts for our operating expenses. Friends enjoy many benefits including early admittance to our annual plant sale, discount ticket price for our January Speaker Event, access to our horticultural library, and discounts at local gardening shops. Call 252-902-1709 for an application.