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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

File this under: How to spend your Wednesday night (and things that are green)

Posted by Sue Kidd @ 04:03:58 pm

This just in.... a workshop series beginning tomorrow for those wanting to ditch that nasty shelf of garden chemicals out in the garage (my retired chemical shelf now holds a bag of mulch and home-brewed compost tea).

You'll find me milling about at the composting clinic on April 30. I'm even toying with writing a story about home composting. Maybe. It depends on whether I can talk fellow GG blogger Craig Sailor into doing some of my work for me.

Details for the greeners:

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and Pt. Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will sponsor Natural Yard Care workshops this spring

With warmer weather here, it's time to start thinking about preparing your yard and garden for the growing season. Would you like to learn about environmentally friendly yard and garden maintenance? This spring, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is sponsoring fun and informative "Natural Yard Care" workshops for Tacoma residents.

The workshops will be presented as a series and will cover different topics each evening, including natural lawn care, garden pest management, soil basics, backyard composting, sustainable landscape design, and lawn and landscape water management.

Workshops will be at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on the following dates:

Wednesday, April 16- Natural lawn care and sustainable garden design

Wednesday, April 30- Soil basics and backyard composting

Wednesday, May 14- Garden pest management and smart watering

All workshops will be 6:30-8:30 pm

The workshops are free, but space is limited. To register or for more information, please contact Geoff Rinehart at 798-4587 or grinehart@tpchd.org.

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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