PORT ANGELES — The lone Green Thumb Gardening Tips Education Series presentation in December is devoted to garden work that needs to be completed prior to and during the late fall and winter seasons.
Longtime gardener Bob Cain offers “Putting the Garden to Bed” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday on the Zoom platform at extension.wsu.edu/clallam. Join online or by phone at 253-215-8782 (meeting ID: 913 9350 4094; passcode 403856). Attendees are asked to mute microphones.
A Master Gardener, Cain will provide details about tasks and reasons that should be completed to prep gardens for the winter months. He will cover how to put the garden to sleep even if vegetables overwinter there.
Attendees will learn about equipment maintenance, irrigation, soil husbandry, clean up, maintaining overwintering vegetables and plants, planning for next year and seed selection criteria.
Cain has more than 40 years of gardening experience in Scotland, Ireland, Colorado and Washington state. He writes a monthly article for Between the Vines, the Clallam County Master Gardener newsletter, about vegetable growing as well as articles on plant disease and pests.
He has is a frequent contributor to local newspaper gardening columns and local radio gardening programs.
Cain is the 2009 Master Gardener Intern of the Year and 2011 Master Gardener of the Year, and he has attained Lifetime Achievement status for continued service to Clallam County Master Gardeners.
He served as manager of the Woodcock Demonstration Garden for seven years and is a past president of the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County.
Sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, the Green Thumb Garden Tips education series currently offers live streaming presentations from noon to 1 p.m. the second Thursday in November, December and January.
These lectures provide home gardeners with education on research-based sustainable garden practices in Clallam County.
For more information, call 360-565-2679.
