Garden Gathering: Planning Your Fall Garden

The Garden Gathering series continues with Central Gorge Master Gardener volunteers, Jen Munroe and Anne Gehrig presenting a workshop on how to plan your fall garden.

 

Topics to be covered in this workshop include: 

• Planning and planting for a fall harvest
• Extending the season and overwintering crops (including cover crops to nourish your soil over fall and winter)
• Protective measures, (row covers, low hoop tunnels, etc.)

 

Munroe and Gehrig have a combined fourteen years of Master Gardening experience  and have many suggestions on how to extend your gardening season in the varying elevations of the Central Gorge. Munroe explains, “Getting started now on your fall garden plan will enable you to continue your harvest late into the season.” While Gehrig adds, “Fall gardening is an opportunity to grow crops that don’t do as well in summer heat.”

 

Two sessions of the Garden Gathering “Planning Your Fall Garden” Workshop will be held at different times and locations. The same information will be offered at each session. 

 

• Saturday, August 10, 10 – 11:30 AM Hood River County Extension, 2990 Experiment Station Drive, Hood River, OR

 

• Tuesday, August 13, 6:00-7:30 PM at the Hood River County Library, 502 State Street, Hood River, OR 

 

All are welcome to attend the Garden Gathering to learn how to extend the gardening season and enjoy fresh produce long after most gardens have been put to bed.

No registration is needed for this free workshop. Upcoming topics for Garden Gathering workshops are Seed Saving, and Tool Care. Dates, times and locations will be announced prior to each presentation. 

 

Central Gorge Master Gardener volunteers provide free beginning gardening classes and continuing education to home gardeners. For research based information about specific gardening or pest questions, submit your concern online at extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/hoodriver or by phone at 541-386-3343. Home gardeners can also drop off plant or pest samples Monday – Thursday between 9 AM and 4 PM at the OSU Hood River County Extension Service, 2990 Experiment Station Drive, Hood River, OR. 

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The Central Gorge Master Gardener program is a division of the OSU Hood River County Extension Service. OSU Extension Service prohibits discrimination in all its programs, services, activities, and materials.