Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany.

Masks at meetings are optional. However, now that cold and flu season is here, you may want to bring and wear a mask at our Tuesday meetings.

12:00 Noon: Doors open for socializing

12:00 to 3:00:

Garden Exchange Table: Please be sure to take any unsold items back home with you at the end of the meeting. Display Table: Dee Plunkett says, “Please bring interesting garden items to display at our February meeting. Suggestion: Camellia blossoms! They're entering their blooming season (late winter into spring).” Questions? Email Dee Plunkett at deependable@gmail.com

The garden club has received donations of plants and books from Ken Berniker, in honor of his wife Barbara. She served as club president in 2003-2004. They will be offered in exchange for donations at upcoming meetings.

1:00 pm:

Regular Business Meeting

Plant Notes

Drawing

2:00 pm: Program – “Propagation from Seeds” – Pam Pierce, Author of Golden Gate Gardening.

Pam Peirce is our February speaker and she will talk about propagating from seeds. Growing plants from seed greatly expands your choices of timing, crops, and varieties. Pam will tell us what we need to know about starting seeds indoors, including how to evaluate a home as a place to grow seedlings and how to inexpensively adapt it to produce them more successfully. She will cover which crops to start from seed, when and why to do it, how to grow the best seedlings (avoiding common pitfalls), which ones can/should be moved to larger pots, and how to prepare them for their move to the great outdoors. She will bring copies of the new, updated, Fourth Edition, of her book Golden Gate Gardening for sale. (Cash or checks appreciated.)