Final’ Lunch in the Garden’ walk is Friday

Published 9:35 am Thursday, September 10, 2015

Although summer is winding down, many vegetable gardens are at their peak of productivity and still demand attention.

To make that work easier, home gardeners can get timely advice from local experts about vegetable gardening from noon-1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.

The event is part of the popular 2015 Lunch in the Garden educational series sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners. Since May, local Master Gardeners have led a monthly walk through the community garden to show home gardeners what needs to be done in vegetable gardens each month and what problems are likely to appear.

This month veteran Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green will talk about season extenders, saving seeds, preserving herbs and putting the garden to bed. Because the September walk is the last walk of the 2015 series, several winter-time gardening activities also will be covered including protecting strawberries from the cold and pruning blueberries.

Lunch in the Garden walks are free and open to the public. 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, right across from City Hall. The garden includes over 50 individuals plots and 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 Lunch in the Garden, call 417-2279.