The Hill City Evergreen Garden Club will be sponsoring the third series of winter gardening seminars at 1pm on Wednesday, March 28th in the third floor conference room of the Hill City Super 8. Cathie Drane, Master Gardener and member of our club, will be speaking to members and guests about using vermiculture, using red worms to produce the nearly perfect product (vericasts) to add to your potting soil or garden plants.

Cathie Drane has been using red worms, eisenia foetida, to eat fresh fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells and coffee and tea grounds for over thirty years. The worms consume the waste food and produce a nutritive vermicast which is added to the garden soil. She will explain the process (super easy) and the cost (free). This is one way that any of us can be responsible for removing from the waste stream almost all of the fruit and vegetable scraps that occur in our kitchens while at the same time improving the soil in which we plant.

Following Cathie’s presentation, members and guests are invited to ask questions and enjoy refreshments. A garden club meeting will be held, and new members are always welcome.

The final seminar will be held Wednesday April 25th. Cheryl Rudel and Tammy Glover, Master Gardeners, will host a presentation about floral conditioning and working with flowers.