Get Free Advice At Six Burien Master Gardener Clinics In May

Spring may finally be arriving, and despite it being only a few weeks late, it’s likely that you’ve got some questions about your suddenly-blooming garden, lawn, yard, or those pests that have seemingly just appeared.

Did you know that there are local “Master Gardeners” in Burien with gardening and pest control expertise who can answer your questions for no charge?
Check out this article in the B-Town Blog for more info on Master Gardener Clinincs

Paper seed pots

Our own Catherine Dupré shows how she makes paper seed pots on her post at Burien Daily. Catherine is a first year gardener at the community garden and is sharing her experiences at the Daily.

Gift of the Fungi

It appears that Wayne's mushroom experiment is bearing fruit... err fungi that is. The Mushroom patch along the fence is definitely working, and here is some info from Wayne...

"Picked the first flush of oyster mushrooms that Bill
let me know about - made a delicious soup with parsnips, leek, and greens,
no stomach issues, so must be the right kind of fungi ;) Bet there will be
more later, but we need to remember to NOT water coffee grounds / mushrooms
with chlorinated (tap) water".

So as Bill suggests, best let Mother Nature take care of watering the mushrooms...

How to save Tomato Seeds

For those who don't know how, here is a great video from Clifton Middleton on saving tomato seeds.
The video is 5 minutes long, if you can't view this gardening video here are the hightlights:

1. When choosing tomatoes for seeds choose the reddest and ripest.
   
2. Some of the seeds are green and some are yellow.
   
3. The green seeds are "not good" and they won't germinate.

First Work Party of the Year!!!

Note: We are not at this time looking for volunteers, outside of our own members, for the Work party

Burien Gothic

New Community Garden Members Catherine and Matt pose a new take on "American Gothic"

We Got MAIL!!!

Just wanted to share an email from Michael Lafreniere, Department Director
City of Burien Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services to the email box, which I diligently check- NOT! Thank you Michael, sorry it took so long to read your email!

Michael wrote:
Just wanted to pass along a website and an initiative I recently learned about:

http://www.growlocaltacomapierce.com/

In Tacoma-Pierce County, the Cascade Land Conservancy is working to help organize community gardens at several new locations around Tacoma due to pent up demand. More on that HERE.