With summer's heat right around the corner, you can do yourself and your yard a favor by eliminating the dragging hose misery and installing drip lines for your plants. A good water system directs water to the roots and, by adding a timer, allows you to deliver it at the exact time you wish. It also prevents disease by minimizing water contact with the leaves, stems, and fruit of plants.
If you have a vegetable or flower garden you won’t want to miss Master Gardener, Jeff Thompson (http://www.snomgf.org/mg-of-the-year.html), explain how to design a drip system for easy maintenance and low water usage. You'll understand the benefits of using drip irrigation for containers, raised beds, vegetable rows and even balconies. Through hands-on demonstrations, you will learn you what you need to buy, how to assemble a system, and how you can customize and expand your own system.
Jeff, affectionately known as “Dr. Drip,” grows thousands of tomato starts for the Snohomish County Master Gardener plant sale (http://www.snomgf.org/plant-sale.html), this year on May 3. His classes on drip irrigation have been highly popular and contributed to growing and irrigating the tomatoes in the McCollum Park Demonstration Garden (http://www.snomgf.org/come-and-garden.html) in Everett.
General fee is $25, discounted rate for 21 Acres members is $20. There are three ways to register; online at http://21acresgrowmorewaterless.eventbrite.com, by e-mailing deb@21acres.org or by calling us at 425-481-1500425-481-1500.
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