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Get timely vegetable gardening advice on June 10

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, June 7, 2017

By Sequim Gazette Staff

Lunch in the Garden Veteran Master Gardeners Lois Bellamy, Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Jeanette Stehr-Green and Audreen Williams will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 10. Following the walk, Master Gardeners Betsy Wharton and Laura Orton (not pictured) will talk about how to use and preserve produce from your garden. The walk is part of the Second Saturday Garden Walks educational series. Submitted photo

Lunch in the Garden Veteran Master Gardeners Lois Bellamy, Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Jeanette Stehr-Green and Audreen Williams will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 10. Following the walk, Master Gardeners Betsy Wharton and Laura Orton (not pictured) will talk about how to use and preserve produce from your garden. The walk is part of the Second Saturday Garden Walks educational series. Submitted photo

Is it too late to plant tomatoes? What is making those holes in the leaves of your broccoli plant? What is the easiest way to control weeds?

Home gardeners can get the answers to these questions and other timely vegetable gardening advice from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 10, during a tour of the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.

The event is part of the Second Saturday Garden Walks, an educational series sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners on the second Saturday of each month through September. The format includes a one-hour walk through the Community Garden to show gardeners what needs to be done in vegetable gardens at this time of year (and how to do it) as well as problems that are likely to appear. After the walk, Master Gardeners will share ideas on how to use and preserve garden produce.

Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Lois Bellamy, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green lead the walks. Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension Food Preservation Adviser, assisted by Laura Orton, will demonstrate how to use seasonal fruits and vegetables and share recipes.

The walk will focus on growing tomatoes, fertilizing your vegetable garden, weed control, garden pests, such as click beetles and flea beetles, and much more.

Second Saturday Garden Walks are free and open to the public and occur rain or shine. The walks are ideal for persons starting a vegetable garden for the first time and gardeners who are new to the Pacific Northwest but also are beneficial to the more experienced gardener.

The Fifth Street Community Garden is located just off Peabody Street, right across from City Hall. The garden includes over 50 individuals plots that are each 9 feet by 12 feet. The garden was developed on city property in 2011 with a vision to connect people to the earth and their community through growing food. For more information about “Second Saturday Garden Walks” call 565-2679.

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