Whoo hoo!

The gardening class went great! My original draft was an 1.5 hours, I did another test run with my wife which went 1:15. I paired down a few more slides and got it at 50 minutes flat despite the occasional digression. There were 9 people (not including me) who all said that they learned a lot. One who had never done any gardening...so I'm counting her as convert #2 for the year. I sent them home with some charts about companion planting, a few home remedies (like milk spray for powdery mildew, and garlic spray for Japanese beetles) and some packets of seed for my favorite perennials. (Fennel, lemon balm, bee balm, chives, hyssop, borage and swiss chard) ok the last two aren't perennials but the result vs. effort margin is very high and I had a ton of seed for them.

I already have requests to do a follow up class later in the year.

I'm reminded that it is one thing to know how to do something, but entirely another to teach it.