We had a nice turnout for our first monthly Lunch in the Garden event.
Please check out the Recipes for May (2013) that use ingredients which should be available now in your gardens.
Lunch in the Garden will continue through September on the second Friday of each month. It is open to the public so invite your friends!
Despite the stormy weather this weekend the new garden season is just days away.
Read more about our gardens by clicking the Our Gardens link above.
Applications for Fifth Street are available now. Please contact the Vineyard organizer for more information on how to rent a plot at the Vineyard garden.
Thank you to everyone who attended the harvest party this year! It was great to see so many gardeners from each garden and share some good food and conversation.
Our harvest party is scheduled for Oct. 28 from 4-7pm. Please see the flier for more details!
The Master Gardeners Garden Tour was a huge success. Each garden saw about 150 visitors. The comments from our guests were all very positive. We had the opportunity to explain a lot of the techniques in use and how the gardens serve as a place to educate not just the gardeners but the whole community.
Here are a few of the artichokes we harvested today at 5th St:
5th street had an informal work party on Sunday. Steve from Lazy J delivered 7 yards of compost at 10 AM:
Several volunteers got right to work shoveling and hauling compost to the willow tree to prepare it for planting. After several hours the bed was ready. Hank brought a few gooseberries and Airport Garden donated a dozen herb plants.
We made a narrow path that loops back under the tree. It will get some cardboard and alder chips soon. The area along the fence needs a 2×8 sunk in the ground to keep the neighbor’s grass and weeds out. We’ll put more cardboard and alder chips afterwards to keep the weeds down.
Here are two videos with tips on staking and stringing your tomatoes for healthier plants and better yields.
This first video is from a large commercial greenhouse in Colville, Washington. Most of the techniques can be applied to smaller gardens as long as you have a structure to support the strings.
This next video is a more practical method for staking on a small scale. One stake is used for each tomato plant. Be sure to get the stake deep enough in the ground that the wind won’t blow it over when the plant is loaded with fruit.
The Master Gardeners of Clallam County are using the plots directly North of the greenhouse/shed for an experiment in growing grafted tomatoes. One half will be grown in a tunnel to extend the season while the other half is grown in the open. It should be very interesting to see how each section does this year.
The Master Gardeners Brown Bag class on Thursday is all about Squash and Pumpkins. Thursday June 7th, noon at the County Comissioner’s Meeting Room in the Courthouse.
Karen Bert, owner of Black Sheep Farm, will be speaking on Saturday April 14th from 10AM to noon at the Vern Burton meeting room on starting plants from seed and growing tomatoes. This class is free and open to the public!
The Fifth Street garden is having it’s first official work party of the year on Saturday, April 7th from 10AM to 2PM. We’ll have something for everyone to do, so please stop by and lend a hand if you can!
