WEEKEND SESSION - Designing a winter wreath is a fun and easy activity to start the holiday season. Join the Gardens staff, who will provide design inspiration and teach you techniques for incorporating foliage and natural materials from the Gardens. Wreaths, various greens and natural materials, bows, ribbons, and decorative materials will be provided. Please bring your own pruners (if you have them) and any personal decorations or lights that you may want to include.

MORNING - Gardens staff provide design inspiration and teach techniques to incorporate foliage and natural materials. Wreath and decorations provided; bring any personal decorations or lights that you may want to include. AFTERNOON - Gardens’ Director, Bruce Crawford, shows you how to create a nature-filled outdoor container to last through the winter, as well as a unique living ornament. Part of this class will be outside, so please dress accordingly. (Follow link for full details.)

Join Rutgers Gardens’ Director, Bruce Crawford, as he shows you how to create a nature-filled outdoor container with decorative branches, which will last through the winter. Bruce will also share techniques for creating a unique living ornament. Supplies to be provided will include a plastic container, colorful and interesting branches for the decorative container and a frame and plant materials for the ornament. Part of this class will be outside, so please dress accordingly.

The Secrets of Growing Potatoes, Onions, Softneck Garlic, Elephant Garlic, Shallots, Asparagus, Horseradish, Jerusalem Artichokes and Rhubarb. Unquestionably, some of the most exciting, rewarding and nutritious gardening comes from the vegetables that develop below the soil’s surface. These vegetables are easy to grow, and rarely attacked by disease, insects and critters. This lecture will teach how to grow these wonderful vegetables.