Master Gardeners — Get vegetable gardening advice on Aug. 12

By Sequim Gazette Staff • August 2, 2017 1:30 am
Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser, will demonstrate how to make fermented pickles on Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles. The walk, sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, is designed to help home gardeners learn what needs to be done in the vegetable garden and berry patch each month and what problems are likely to appear throughout the growing season. Submitted photo
Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser, will demonstrate how to make fermented pickles on Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles. The walk, sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, is designed to help home gardeners learn what needs to be done in the vegetable garden and berry patch each month and what problems are likely to appear throughout the growing season. Submitted photo

Home gardeners can get timely advice about vegetable and berry gardening from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, 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. During the walk, veteran Master Gardeners Lois Bellamy, Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green will show local gardeners what needs to be done in vegetable gardens at this time of year (and how to do it) and problems that are likely to appear. Areas of focus will include cleaning produce, getting tomatoes to ripen, cover crops, planting a fall garden and more.

This month’s walk will feature Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener, WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser and owner of Clallam Canning Company. She will talk about her “Pickle Jar Garden” where she grows ingredients for her well-known garlic dill pickles and demonstrate how to make fermented pickles.

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 Port Angeles 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.