"Back to Basics"
Third Annual Open House
At the URI Master Gardener Demonstration Vegetable Garden
Saturday, August 9 2003
9am-12pm

9:15 a.m.....................Raised beds and Putting the Garden to Bed
9:30 a.m.....................Cooking demo: vegetable griddle cakes
10 a.m.........................All about Tomatoes
10:30 a.m...................Cooking demo: stuffed vegetables
11 a.m........................Making Compost
11:30 a.m...................Growing Vegetables in Containers
Noon...........................Cooking demo with Normand Leclair: chilled strawberry soup.
12:30 p.m. ..................Irrigation in the home garden
1 p.m. .........................Non-toxic pest control methods
1:30 p.m......................Harvesting and storing vegetables.

This open house is free and open to the public. The many workshops include drip irrigation techniques, free pH testing for those visitors that bring a garden sample with them, raising beds and cooking demonstrations.

The garden is located next to the URI Cooperative Extension Education Center which is on East Alumni Avenue, just off Upper College Road. The site is across the street from the Fine Arts Center.

For more information please call the URI Master Gardener's at 1-800-448-1011.