PORT ANGELES — Home gardeners can get timely advice about vegetable and berry gardening from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday during a tour of the Fifth Street Community Garden.
The event at the garden at 328 E. Fifth St. 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 what needs to be done in vegetable gardens at this time of year and problems that are likely to appear.
Areas of focus will include cleaning produce, getting tomatoes to ripen, cover crops and planting a fall garden.
This month’s walk also will feature Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener, WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser and owner of Clallam Canning Co.
Wharton 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, open to the public and occur rain or shine. The walks are ideal for people starting a vegetable garden for the first time and gardeners who are new to the Pacific Northwest; they also are beneficial to the more experienced gardener.
The Fifth Street Community Garden is just off Peabody Street, right across from Port Angeles City Hall. The garden includes more than 50 individuals plots, 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 360-565-2679.
