The Dublin Garden Club hosted its regular meetings in February and March, and has been in the planning stages for a kid’s planting class set for Thursday, March 20. In conjunction with Texas Farm Bureau, the Dublin Garden Club will be sponsoring planting education for children through 6th grade at the Dublin Public Library at 3 p.m. March 20. The children will be able to learn about and will plant seeds to take home and watch sprout and grow. Also, a child’s gardening book will be provided. We hope we have a great turnout of young children learning where food comes from and how to plant seeds, organizers said. Club members met in February with Erath County Extension Agent, Lonnie Jenschke, presenting a program on the what, why and how of composting. Needed are brown ingredients, which are leaves, straw, cardboard, etc. Green ingredients, which are kitchen scraps, grass, manure. Water and air circulation are also required. Do not compost meat scraps, dairy, oils, pet waste, glossy paper, plants diseased or treated with herbicide. There are two types of composting, hot or slow. Hot requires turning the plant mixture while slow just lets it sit and you pull composted soil from the bottom. Both require water and air. In March member DeniseWeemsgaveaprogram on landscape architecture. It was informative how several layers are built and added to each other starting with the hardscape. Which is designing beds, irrigation, etc. Next layer of design are the larger plantings like trees and shrubs. Also, grass is in this phase. Last are the smaller perennial and annual plantings. Always taking in consideration sunlight requirements and water requirements. The club’s next meeting on April 9, will be a field trip to The Ditch in Stephenville. Native plants should be in full bloom at this time.
Garden club to aid in kid's education planting class Thursday
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