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Second Saturday Garden Walk set for May 13 in Port Angeles

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 10, 2023

By Sequim Gazette Staff

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Photo by Audreen Williams / Clallam County Master Gardener Laurel Moulton in April addresses the reasons for organizing garden beds to enable crop rotation practices as shown here in Master Gardener north plots at the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. The next Second Saturday Garden Walk is set for May 13.

Join veteran Clallam County Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, and Audreen Williams as they discuss why waiting is best to plant warm season crops, such as tomatoes, from 10-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, at Fifth Street Community Garden (328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles) for Second Saturday Garden Walk.

Other topics for May 13’s walk will include dealing with emerging spring pests (cutworms, earwigs and pea leaf weevils) and understanding inter-planting basics.

Home gardeners can get timely advice about vegetable and berry gardening during the walking tour, organizers note. They can see what needs to be done in vegetable gardens at this time of year (and how to do it) and talk about problems that are likely to appear and how to deal with them in a sustainable, earth-friendly manner. They may bring their questions and get helpful science-based advice.

All Second Saturday Garden Walks are free and open to the public and occur rain or shine. The walks, organizers say, are ideal for people 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 includes more than 50 individuals plots, each 9 feet by 12 feet.

The event is part of the Second Saturday Garden Walks, an educational series sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners that started in April and runs through September.

For more information, call 360-565-2678.

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