WEEKEND: Port Angeles’ Lunch in the Garden program kicks off today

Published 12:01 am Friday, May 10, 2013

PORT ANGELES — Lunch in the Garden, a new educational series in which home gardeners can get timely advice on vegetable gardening, will kick off at the Fifth Street Community Garden, 325 E. Fifth St., at noon today.

In the series, home gardeners will see what vegetables grow well on the North Olympic Peninsula, learn what needs to be done in the vegetable garden each month and what problems are likely to appear at that time.

They also will receive recipes that use fresh produce and locally grown herbs.

This month, Rita Dinger will talk about growing chives and using them in cooking, and Laurel Moulton will highlight vegetables that should be planted in May.

Dinger has been a Master Gardener since 2004 and was the 2010 Clallam County Veteran Master Gardener of the Year.

Moulton has been a Master Gardener since 2006 and is the Master Gardener program coordinator.

Both have been growing vegetable and herb gardens for many years.

The series is sponsored by the WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners and will be held the second Friday of each month through September.

Lunch in the Garden walks are free and open to the public.

Organizers said the walks are ideal for people starting a vegetable garden for the first time and gardeners who are new to the Pacific Northwest.

Fifth Street garden

The Fifth Street Community Garden is located off Peabody Street across from Port Angeles City Hall.

It contains more than 50 individual garden plots.

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 the Lunch in the Garden series, phone 360-565-2679.