PORT ANGELES — Veteran Master Gardeners Judy English, Audreen Williams, Amanda Rosenberg and John Norgord will share their tips for growing tomatoes at noon today.
The lecture, part of the “Green Thumb Gardening Tips” brown-bag educational series sponsored by the Clallam County WSU Master Gardeners, will be at noon in the county commissioners’ meeting room (Romm 160) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
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.
English will provide advice on selecting varieties best suited for growing on the Olympic Peninsula, preparing and managing the planting site, and identifying common tomato disease.
Williams and Rosenberg will illustrate cultivation methods designed for maximizing the growing season demonstrated at the Fifth Street Community and Woodcock gardens last summer.
Norgord will provide a “how-to” guide for building a shelter to protect plants against fungal disease.
A Master Gardener since 2005, English has been raising heritage tomatoes on her hillside garden in Sequim for 12 years.
She has been a regular contributing writer and editor of gardening columns in the Peninsula Daily News and Sequim Gazette and appears monthly on KONP’s gardening show.
Williams, a 2012 graduate of the Master Gardener Program, focuses especially on addressing the challenges of vegetable gardening in the maritime growing environment of Port Angeles.
She shares her skills stewarding educational efforts at the Fifth Street Community Garden Master Gardener demonstration plots in Port Angeles, Growing Healthy Project, Friday Lunch in the Garden Walk and Woodcock Garden.
A Master Gardener since 2008, Rosenberg has grown several varieties of tomatoes in her home garden both from saved seeds and transplanted starts during the past seven years.
She has participated in tomato trials at Clallam County Master Gardener demonstration gardens that have compared results between grafted and non-grafted and between covered and non-covered plants.
Norgord has been a Master Gardener since 2008.
He has grown tomatoes at home and for seven years at local Master Gardener demonstration gardens, where he has participated in trials involving different tomato varieties, planting methods, site evaluations and grafting.
The “Green Thumb Gardening Tips” series is presented the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.
For more information, call 360-417-2279.