Thursday, June 4, 2009

It’s Still Veggies! Veggies! Veggies!

At Al’s Garden Center find out that It’s Never Too Late to Plant Veggies. Jack Bigej, a lifelong farmer, will help you learn about vegetables you can plant this month. It’s at the Sherwood location on Saturday, June 6th at 10:00 am.

Portland Nursery’s Stark Street store will feature Tracy of Westwind Gardens talking about Seasonal Vegetable Planting and timing your vegetable planting for the most abundant harvest. That will be on Sunday, June 7th, at 11:00 am.

The Multnomah County Master Gardeners welcome the general public to hear Weston Miller, OSU Community and Urban Horticulturist, speak on Year-round, Intensive Vegetable Gardening: Focus on Winter Veggies. With our relatively mild climate in the Willamette Valley, it is possible to harvest fresh veggies from the garden all year round. Harvesting veggies in the winter takes lots of planning and some special tools and techniques. The time to plan is now.
Start planning on Tuesday, June 9th, 7:00 pm, at the Mt.Tabor Presbyterian Church (5441 SE Belmont St. Portland).

The Clackamas County Master Gardeners also invite home gardeners to hear Josh Kirschenbaum, of Territorial Seed Company, speak about Winter Vegetable Gardening. With the price of goods on the rise and significant awareness about where our food comes from and what is on it or in it, the movement to home‐gardening makes perfect sense. Josh will share his knowledge of winter vegetables including best varieties for our region and tips on planting, growing, and extending the harvest.

You can join them at the Milwaukie Center (5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr., Milwaukie) on Monday, June 8th, 7:00 p.m.


For the Ornamental Gardeners - -

Hear Ann Nickerson, on "Basic Landscape Design" at Farmington Gardens (21815 SW Farmington Road, Beaverton). Learn the basic principles you will need – both with creating a site plan, and with choosing pleasing plant combinations. You will leave knowing what steps to take to create the garden you’ve always wanted! Saturday, June 6th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm.

With Designing Great Ornamental Trees Into Your Garden experienced local designers Ann Marsh and Gary Fear will discuss many small to medium-sized trees and design essentials for putting them into your landscape at Joy Creek Nursery (20300 NW Watson Rd., Scappoose). Sunday, June 7th, 1:00 pm.

Are there still places in the garden that need some attention? Mary Ludlum will introduce many of the New Plants for 2009 at Farmington Gardens – from Japanese maples; conifers; roses; and lots of summer and fall-blooming perennials. Wednesday, June 10th, 10:00 am.


A Westside garden tour - -

Washington County Master Gardeners
2009 Garden Tour

Saturday, June 27th, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Washington County Master Gardeners invite you to enjoy a free self-guided tour of five home gardens, a community garden, and a school garden; all in Washington County.

The tour will showcase sustainable gardening practices for edibles and ornamentals, with an emphasis on home food growing. You’ll see beautiful ponds, a large cutting garden, unusual shrubs and perennials, fruit trees, a 4-season vegetable garden, charming chickens and more. Master gardeners will be on hand to answer your questions. More information at http://www.wcmga.info/; click on the “events” link.

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