PORT ANGELES — Selinda Barkhuis will explain how gardeners can grow the ingredients for spaghetti sauce in the temperate marine climate of the Olympic Peninsula at noon Thursday.
Her presentation, part of the “Green Thumb Gardening Tips” brown-bag educational series sponsored by the Clallam County Washington State University Master Gardeners, will be in Room 160, the county commissioners’ meeting room, at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
It is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted to help cover copying costs for handouts.
Attendees are invited to bring a lunch.
Garden tips
Barkhuis, who serves as Clallam County treasurer, will offer tips on growing garlic and perennial onions, making self-watering totes for tomatoes and peppers, and getting the most from planting squash.
She also will present a way to process the bounty of the fall garden into ready-to-use “spaghetti sauce cubes” for the freezer, to be enjoyed all winter long.
Barkhuis has been gardening the backyard, front yard and side yards of her urban lot in central Port Angeles for the past 15 years, focusing on organic vegetables and fruit as well as flowers for hummingbirds.
Her garden was featured in the 2012 Master Gardeners’ Petals & Pathways Garden Tour.
The “Green Thumb Gardening Tips” series is presented on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at the courthouse.
For more information, call 360-417-2279.
