Master Gardeners, from left, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Audreen Williams, Bob Cain and Laurel Moulton will lead a one-hour walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden on Sept. 9. (Clallam County Master Gardeners)

Master Gardeners, from left, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Audreen Williams, Bob Cain and Laurel Moulton will lead a one-hour walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden on Sept. 9. (Clallam County Master Gardeners)

Gardening advice offered in season’s last Lunch in the Garden in Port Angeles

Master Gardeners to talk about harvesting pumpkins and winter squash, season extenders and putting the garden to bed.

PORT ANGELES — The last in the summer series of Lunch in the Garden, sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, will be Sept. 9.

Timely advice from Master Gardeners about vegetable and berry gardening will be presented from noon to 1 p.m. at the tour of the Fifth Street Community Garden at 328 E. Fifth St. The tour is free.

Veteran Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green will talk about harvesting pumpkins and winter squash, season extenders and putting the garden to bed.

Meggan Uecker, Clallam County recycling coordinator, will join the Master Gardeners to talk about composting.

Cain joined Master Gardeners in 2009 and was Clallam County Master Gardener Foundation president from 2011-13.

Moulton has been a Master Gardener since 2006 and coordinated the WSU Master Gardener Program in Clallam County from 2012-14.

Williams joined Master Gardeners in 2012 and was the 2014 Clallam County Veteran Master Gardener of the Year co-recipient.

Stehr-Green has been a Master Gardener since 2003 and was the 2012 Clallam County Veteran Master Gardener of the Year.

Together, these Master Gardeners have more than 100 years of vegetable and berry gardening experience.

For more information about Lunch in the Garden, call 360-565-2679.

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