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!

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.

Here are a few of the artichokes we harvested today at 5th St:

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.

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.