This week
Tours and events
Fecal Fest: Through March 20, send one postcard per person requesting 6×3, 6×4 or 8×4 load of compost material to Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle; $35 to $60 for bed loads, $4 to $14.95 for bag or bucket-size loads; pick up dates April 16 through May 2; 206-625-7007; www.zoo.org.
Spring garden walk: 1 p.m. March 21, Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; free, but make reservations at 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com.
Classes
Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse: 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com. Most classes are free.
Growing vegetables in containers, 11 a.m. March 20; $5, make reservations at 360-466-3821.
Edmonds Parks &Recreation: Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds; 425-771-0230; www.reczone.org.
Spring gardening speaker series, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays through March 25, Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds; $7 per class or $20 for series; same-day sign-up allowed; no registration deadline; 425-771-0230; www.reczone.org. March 18, container gardening.
Emery’s Garden: 2829 164th St. SW, Lynnwood; 425-743-4555; www.emerysgarden.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.
Lawn care, 11 a.m. March 20.
Early spring vegetables, noon March 21.
Northwest Horticultural Society: Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st, Seattle; 206-527-1794; www.northwesthort.org.
Spring symposium, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 20, Bastyr University auditorium, 14500 Juanita Drive, Kenmore; $80, includes lunch; register at 206-527-1794; www.northwesthort.org.
Snohomish Community Growing Groceries Volunteer Mentors meetings: WSU Snohomish County Extension program, 600 128th St. SE, Everett; 425-357-6010; www.snohomish.wsu.edu.
Vegetable gardening 101, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 23, Granite Falls Library, 815 E. Galena St., Granite Falls; details at 360-691-6087.
Sunnyside Nursery: 3915 Sunnyside Blvd., Marysville; register at 425-334-2002; www.sunnysidenursery.net.
Cool-season vegetable gardening, 10 a.m. March 20; free, but register at 425-334-2002.
Swansons Nursery: 9701 15th Ave. NW, Seattle; 206-782-2543; www.swansonsnursery.com. Most classes are free. Registration is suggested.
Keeping a small flock of hens, 10 a.m. March 20.
Gardening series 101, 102, 103, attend any or all of the following sessions; 10 a.m. March 21, learn about mulch, soil and basic gardening terms.
Whidbey Island Master Gardeners: 360-240-5527; www.island.wsu.edu.
Whidbey gardening workshop, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 20, Coupeville Middle/High School, 501 S. Main St., Coupeville; workshop $35, lunch $8; register at 360-240-5527.
Plant sales
Meerkerk rhodie sale: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 20 and 21, Meerkerk Gardens, 3531 Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank, Whidbey Island; 360-678-1912; www.meerkerkgardens.org.
master gardener CLINICs
WSU Snohomish County Extension: McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett; 425-338-2400, ext. 5500; www.snohomish.wsu.edu.
Master Gardener “Sustainable Gardening” lecture series, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays, Mukilteo Presbyterian Church social hall, 4515 84th St. SW, Mukilteo; no reservations for individual dates, but $20 payable at door if open seats remain; 425-338-2400; www.snohomish.wsu.edu. March 19, Ciscoe Morris, “Ciscoe in the garden.”
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