2013 Events

More details to come!

NOFA Conference Workshop: Planning the Garden for the Winter Pantry

UVM Davis Center, Burlington, VT - please pre-register here.

Sunday, February 17th, 2013, 2:15-3:30 pm

In this interactive workshop, Julie will discuss gardening with all 12 months of the year in mind. Freezing, canning and dehydrating are a form of season extension and bringing the bounty indoors. Come learn a few tips, share your practices with others - the good and the bad. The goal of this workshop? No more mystery mush in the freezer that goes uneaten year after year!

NOFA Conference Workshop: Selecting and Growing Tomatoes for the Kitchen

UVM Davis Center, Burlington, VT - please pre-register here.

Sunday, February 17th, 2013, 3:45-5:00 pm

Determinate, heirloom, saladette, slicer....what do all these tomato terms mean and how do you make decisions about what to grow in your kitchen garden?  Julie will help you understand the tomato dictionary and how it translates to the kitchen. She will share her favorite varieties and give you the tools you need to make the best selections from the seed catalogs and greenhouses you visit, and Ann Hazelrigg of UVM's plant diagnostic clinic, will discuss how to keep your tomato plants disease free.

Cooking from the Garden Workshop

City Market, Burlington, VT

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Planning a vegetable garden can be more about the foods you want to eat and preserve than the plants! Julie will show us her favorite recipes from the pantry and freezer using vegetables and herbs she preserved last summer and talk about garden planning with food preservation in mind. She’ll show us how to prepare slow-roasted tomato sauce, creamy spinach, and Portuguese kale soup as she talks about kitchen garden planning. $5 for City Market Members, $10 for non-members. Please pre-register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5244721102#

Open House

Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, VT

Saturday, March 30th, 2013, 9 am - 1 pm

Come join us for some early season plants, coffee, tea, and treats! We'll be selling lots of pretty containers of flowers for your Easter table. This is a great opportunity to wander our warm, sunny greenhouses and enjoy beautiful flowers before spring comes!

Opening Day

Friday, April 19th, 2013, 8am - 6pm

Come kick off the gardening season with us!

4th Annual New North End Plant Sale at Bibens Ace Hardware

Bidens Ace Hardware, Burlington, VT

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

This is a great opportunity for Burlington folks to buy our plants without making the trip to Hinesburg. We'll be on site with our plants and staff to answer your gardening questions and help you choose plants. This event is a fundraiser for the Burlington Area Community Gardens Scholarship fund. You can find more information about BACG here.

5th Annual Sweet Potato Slip Sale

Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, VT

Saturday & Sunday, June 8-9th, 2013, 8 am - 6 pm

Come join us at the 5th Annual Sweet Potato Slip Sale at our greenhouses. This event is a fundraiser for the Friends of Burlington Gardens, who come and pot up thousands of sweet potato slips. Then we take care of them until the sale, when they have roots and are ready to go into the warm soil in the garden. Some of our customers have reported growing sweet potatoes as big as footballs! You can learn more about the event and FBG here.



Stay tuned for more events! If you know of a school or garden that would like to do a plant sale, get in touch with us at julieATredwagonplants.com