EDITOR’S NOTE: Full disclosure, I’m a Master Gardener and Sarah Ostermiller is one of my favorite Master Gardeners. We got to tour a bunch of gardens together during 2020. We are all so eager to get out in the garden, but it was snowing again today (March 25, 2023) and the temp didn’t make it to the mid-40’s. Soil temperature…
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MANZANITA DAY CELEBRATIONS MARCH 31ST, HOFFMAN WONDER GARDEN, MANZANITA
WHAT: MANZANITA DAY CELEBRATION WHEN: FRIDAY, MARCH 31st WHERE: Hoffman Center for the Arts, 594 Laneda Ave, Manzanita, OR TIME: Plant Sale, 11am-1pm (admission FREE) Gardening in A Changing Climate, 2-4pm (admission $20) Look around at the places we live and you’ll likely notice they’re named after ocean bays, explorers, military outposts and native peoples. But only one place here…
A Very Special Gift – Master Gardener Classes
Give a very special gift this year in this season of giving. Give the gift of gardening. Do you know someone who loves to garden, a recent retiree or a young person who would like to learn how to garden so they can grow and preserve their own food or landscape around their home? Maybe you would like to grow…
Sign-up NOW! 2023 OSU Master Gardener Training Classes Start in Jan.; Register by Dec. 16th
Registration is now open for 2023 OSU Master Gardener Training Classes. Classes will be held in person at the Tillamook County Extension Office weekly beginning January 5, 2023 thru April 2, 2023. The curriculum will also be available on‐line. Instructors are experienced Master Gardener volunteers. In addition to classroom instruction, hands‐on gardening labs will be conducted at the Learning Garden,…
Nehalem Bay Garden Club Grant Program Now Open
Nehalem Bay Garden Club is now accepting proposals for its 2022 gift giving program through November 15, 2022. Proposals should be submitted to the NBGC at PO Box 261, Wheeler, OR 97147 or emailed to constance@nehalemtel.net. Be sure to put ‘NBGC Gift Request’ in the subject line of the email. Request proposals should: be one page or shorter; include amount…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS: Finally, My Garden is Planted!
By Cammy Hickman, Tillamook County Master Gardener There is hope – you still have ample time to plant your garden this year! According to my garden journal, I am at least a month or 7 weeks later than last year. It has been such a soggy spring, that I couldn’t even clean out the weeds without taking up more soil…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Learning From My Tomatoes
by Neal Lemery I’m always learning from my garden. Even when I think I “know it all” and expect that things will always go as planned, because I’m old and wise, and there’s nothing left to learn. Well, I’m old, but wisdom is often elusive, and there are always lessons to be learned. And, if I don’t think I need…
Tillamook County Emergency Management ALERT: Freeze Warning until 08:00AM Wednesday
Tuesday May 10th, 2022 :: 05:30 p.m. PDT * WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures of 30F to 32F expected. * WHERE…Coast Range of Northwest Oregon and Central Coast Range of Western Oregon. * WHEN…From 2 AM to 8 AM PDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS…Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation. * AFFECTED AREAS: COAST RANGE OF NORTHWEST OREGON … CENTRAL…
Nehalem Bay Garden Club Readies for Sale this Weekend – May 7th & 8th; New Additions to Plant Sale
There are some new additions to the annual Nehalem Bay Garden Club’s plant sale. A raffle for a iRobot Vacuum Model 805 Roomba, complete with all the paperwork in the cardboard tray it came in. Tickets are $5 each or 6 for $20. River City Flower Farm will be selling their dried flower arrangements and wreaths as well as dahlia bulbs (on Saturday only)….
WORDS OF WISDOM: Planting Seeds
by Neal Lemery “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you may reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Spring can be such a time of miracles. New growth, blossoms, warm sun, time outdoors just being in the presence of all the new, experiencing the changes happening all around us. I often don’t take the…