After plentiful sun and rich soil, water is the third most important element in the garden. Yet, it is often the least considered. If vegetable… Continue reading
Last week’s column, “Creating a Pollinator Garden,” talked about planning and planting your garden to attract and keep pollinators, including bees, butterflies, insects and others.… Continue reading
What’s all the buzz about pollinators? Why do we need them? Pollinators are bees, butterflies, birds, moths, bats and some insects. They pollinate many of… Continue reading
Tomatoes in home gardens For more information on growing tomatoes, read WSU’s “Vegetables: Growing Tomatoes in Home Gardens” (FS145E) available for free at https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2070/2019/09/FS145E.pdf. Tomatoes… Continue reading
The Master Gardener’s of Clallam County want to continue to gets children and their families growing. How about some free seeds? With the help from… Continue reading
By Jeanette Stehr-Green For the Sequim Gazette Last week, we covered four of the more popular small fruits grown in home gardens: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries… Continue reading
Small fruits are so named because they produce small edible fruits on relatively small perennial plants. Despite their size, small fruits provide big rewards and… Continue reading
By Judy English For the Sequim Gazette Growing microgreens is a fun and rewarding project for both the experienced and inexperienced gardener. Microgreens are vegetables… Continue reading
The Clallam County Master Gardeners are disappointed to have to postpone the Spring Plant Sale. It is an annual fund raising event that they enjoy… Continue reading
Growing plants from seeds is fun and rewarding! This hands-on project for kids will increase your child’s basic knowledge of plants and improve their observation… Continue reading
Do you have kitchen food scraps that are just thrown away? You can reduce your trash and make organic fertilizer with a worm bin. The… Continue reading
By Susan Kalmar For the Sequim Gazette People often think it’s hard to grow warm season plants (e.g., tomatoes and peppers) on the North Olympic… Continue reading
When planning a garden, the climate, defined as the weather conditions averaged over a relatively long period of time, tells an important story. Yet, climate… Continue reading
There is so much to do and think about in the April garden that even seasoned gardeners may find themselves wandering aimlessly between projects. So… Continue reading
Everyone knows it’s important to attract birds, butterflies, and honey bees to the garden as pollinators, but did you know you may already have another… Continue reading
Herbie, a Scarlett Runner Bean puppet, is turning 25 in 2020. Herbie has been educating Clallam County second-graders every spring for two-and-a-half decades! Herbie is… Continue reading
Fungus gnats are annoying. Not to be confused with their equally annoying cousin, the fruit fly, fungus gnats are about 1/8 inch long and live… Continue reading
