Practical Landscape Basics
with Aaron Steil
ON-DEMAND COURSEÂ NOW AVAILABLE
Demystify landscaping with this DIY smart-design course, which covers the fundamentals of landscaping, gardening, and maintaining a beautiful, usable outdoor space in 6 in-depth lessons.
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Whether you can envision your dream garden or don’t know where to start with your yard, this landscaping and gardening course will show you how to create an impeccable landscape. The course, led by an expert horticulturist and Garden Gate Magazine, will cover what you need to know to plan, prepare, build, plant, and maintain a range of terrain, with plentiful inspiration and DIY ideas. You’ll learn everything from site evaluations and soil testing to garden beds and watering. Plus, Aaron will give you downloadable handouts to help set your goals and track your landscape progress.Â
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We’ll cover:
- Getting started
- Creating your garden: planning on paper
- Creating your garden: prepping, edging and mulching
- Plant selection
- Seeding and planting
- Maintaining your garden
- Plus: Hardscaping, plant selection, seeding, planting, watering, fertilizing, composting, lawn care, pest control, pruning and much, much more!
Meet Your Instructor
Aaron Steil
Aaron Steil combines his two passions, gardening and teaching, as the assistant director at Iowa State University’s Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa and as a lecturer in Iowa State’s Department of Horticulture. He also speaks across the Midwest to amateur and professional gardeners on a wide range of gardening topics.
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Steil co-hosts Gardening Today on WHO Radio (1040 AM) in Des Moines, a weekly call-in gardening program and serves as a regular guest on Iowa Public Radio’s weekly “Hort Friday” segment on Talk of Iowa. He received his B.S. in horticulture and biology from Iowa State University and his M.S. in public horticulture from the University of Delaware. He has previously worked at the Iowa Arboretum; Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia; and the renowned Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
An avid horticulturalist, Steil enjoys practicing what he teaches and maintains his own private garden in Des Moines where he gets to indulge his healthy obsession with shade gardening, houseplants, and growing underutilized woody plants.
