Tour and expert discussion: "Spring in the gardening year"

Visitors can experience a "spring awakening with young vegetables" this morning in the teaching and learning garden at the University of Kassel's tropical greenhouse in cooperation with Bistro Ringelnatz.

To mark the start of the gardening season, agricultural engineer and gardener Catherina Merx will take visitors to the beds with spring herbs such as Good Henry and winter hedge onion. She shows vegetables that can already be harvested in spring. These include typical crops such as various lettuces, but also unfamiliar ones such as garden sorrel and spoonwort. There are also exciting things hidden underground: Some turnips and tubers such as parsnips, Jerusalem artichokes or the American earth pear overwinter in the soil, become even tastier due to the frost and can be harvested well into the spring.

Many of the herbs and vegetables presented are suitable for pre-cultivation before the summer vegetables and thus fill the supply gap from your own garden in spring. In addition to cultivation tips for sowing and caring for the various species, the cultivation of some vegetable crops will also be demonstrated using practical examples. Among other things, guests can try their hand at pricking out seedlings of the Kasseler Strünkchen. Culinary delights are not neglected on this morning either: the tour provides an insight into the use of herbs and vegetables, some of which are little known.

Immediately afterwards, some of them can be sampled in a spring menu at Bistro Ringelnatz. This special lunch will be garnished with appropriate poems. Please register and pay separately via Bistro Ringelnatz 05542-6199785.

Please pre-register by Monday, 01.04.2019

More information at: www.tropengewaechshaus.de