PORT ANGELES — Advice on starting that vegetable garden will be dispensed at the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden on Saturday.
The free walk will be from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the community garden at 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.
Local experts will provide timely advice as temperatures rise and soils dry enough to be worked.
The event is part of an educational series sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners held on the second Saturday of each month through September.
The format includes a one-hour walk through the community garden to show gardeners what needs to be done in vegetable gardens — and how to do it — as well as problems that are likely to appear.
After the walk, Master Gardeners will share ideas on how to use and preserve what is grown in vegetable gardens.
Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Lois Bellamy, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green lead the walks.
Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser, assisted by Laura Orton, will talk about use of produce, sharing recipes that use seasonal fruits and vegetables. Wharton also is a columnist for the Peninsula Daily News.
The May walk will focus on transplanting starts, setting up trellises, dealing with early spring pests, fertilizing and much more.
The Fifth Street Community Garden is located just off Peabody Street, right across from 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 to connect people to the earth and their community through growing food.
For more information, call 360-565-2679.
