Compost cure: The SnoGroFood Committee, a contingent of the countywide Growing Groceries education program, is offering a free composting workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 1305 Pine Ave., Snohomish.
Sandy Delisle, a master gardener and master composter will explain how to compost yard and kitchen wastes, which can be used to enrich garden soil.
No registration is necessary. Contact Diane Decker-Ihle at deckerihle@comcast.net or 360-333-0745 if you have questions.
Save 12 dates: The 2009 Snohomish County Master Gardener Garden Tours will feature 12 gardens spread over seven spring and summer Saturdays.
Tour dates will be June 6, 13, 20, 27; July 18; and Aug. 1 and 8. Each garden will be open on its scheduled day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sustainable Gardening is the tour theme. Gardens will feature food production in the landscape, rain gardens, drought-tolerant plants and other uses of plants that protect the environment.
To purchase a tour booklet, which serves as a ticket for all tour gardens, stop by the master gardener desk at the Washington State University Extension Office, McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or send a check for $25 and three postage stamps for each booklet to SCMGF 2009 Tours, 18412 67th Ave. SE, Snohomish, WA 98296-8339.
See snomgf.org for updates or call 425-338-2400.
Mudrakers unite: The Herald’s gardening blog, Mudrakers, features the urban gardening adventures of Jessi Loerch and Sarah Jackson.
Loerch, who tends back yard chickens and honey bees in addition to flowers and vegetables, is always up to something interesting — and she has photographic evidence to prove it.
Jackson is busy wandering her neighborhood, camera in hand, trying to identify cool plants while tending her own vegetable garden, weedy lawn and ornery ornamentals.
See www.heraldnet.com/mudraker to follow their stories and to contribute your own photos and comments.
Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.
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