Public Events with the Garden Hotline
Dia de La Familia
Saturday, June 10, 2023 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
South Park Community Center – 8319 8th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108
Join us for an educational and activity filled day in South Park aimed at providing resources for the Latino community. Free seeds, gardening advice and a chance to hang out with us!
Pollinators and Beneficial Insects in the Garden
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm
King County Library – Kent Panther Lake
20500 108th Avenue SE Kent, WA 98031
Let your garden visitors do some gardening for you! Most insects have some beneficial effect on your garden, helping to manage plant eating pests or pollinating flowering plants. Learn how to attract them to your garden.
Register at Kent Panther Lake Library
Beneficial Insects and Pollinators in the Garden
Saturday, June 17th, 2023 10 am to noon
614 SW 120th St. Seattle, WA 98146
Join us as we walk and talk about pollinators and beneficial insects in the summer garden. Learn how to recognize their various life stages so you can protect them, identify the plant eating insects beneficials feed on and the flowers pollinators love. Building a diverse and pesticide free garden will attract all the garden allies you need – see this in person while you tour the garden with us.
New Start Community Garden AKA Shark Garden – link coming soon
Pollinator Gardening at the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
Friday, June 23, 2023 – 10:00 am to noon
Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
5513 S. Cloverdale Street
Seattle, WA 98118
Get your hands and imaginations busy learning how to plant for pollinators and beneficial insects in an established garden in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood. Summer annuals will be added to the diverse, native, weed, and ornamental garden on the hill.
Sign up to volunteer on the Tilth Alliance site.
Freeway Park in Bloom
Saturday, June 24, 2023 – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
700 Seneca Street. Seattle, WA 98101
Join the Garden Hotline for a live information table at this festive inner city event at Freeway Park. Learn about urban trees on a hosted tree walk, peruse the seed basket for a free packet of seeds and ask all the questions you desire of our Garden Hotline educator.
No registration needed
Worm Composting
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 – 6:00 to 7:00 pm
King County Library – Kent
212 2nd. Ave. N Kent, WA 98032
Put worms to work in your garden! Make great compost and reduce waste with food scraps and these little helpers. Make a mini kitchen counter or under the sink bin to practice your new skills.
Pollinators and Beneficials in the Garden
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm
King County Library – Woodmont
Create a garden that fosters habitat for allies in the insect and bird world that help keep your garden pest free. Adding flowering plants to the vegetable garden, and native plants to the shrub beds will draw birds and beneficial insects, including pollinators, into the garden. Learn how to choose plants that will do the best job.
Summer Tasks in the Edible and Ornamental Garden
Saturday, August 5, 2023 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Marlene’s Market online bi-monthly class series
Learn how to harvest the best produce, how to keep a summer garden hydrated in the dry weather, and what last plantings you should be fitting in for fall or overwintering. Learn the next steps in seed saving and how to harvest your seed to save for next year.
Duwamish River Festival
Saturday, August 5, 2023 12:00 – 5:00 pm
Duwamish River People’s Park and Shoreline Habitat
Join us to talk about our one and only Green Duwamish River and the best ways to protect her while gardening in your yard. Chat with us about chemical free ways to manage weeds, insects and diseases and keep your lawn healthy though maybe golden instead of green during the summer. Live educators will be there to talk with at a very festive and beautiful site at the river’s edge.
No registration needed.
Othello Park International Festival
Sunday, August 13, 2023 12:00 to 6:00 pm
4351 S Othello St., Seattle, WA 98118
Join us for this fun, multi-cultural festival of music, arts, and information in the SE Seattle Othello neighborhood. One block stop from the light rail train. Come talk gardening with our team!
No registration needed.
Othello Park International Festival
Microgreens for the Space Limited Gardener
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 – 6:00 to 7:00 pm
King County Library – Kent
212 2nd. Ave. N Kent, WA 98032
No patch of ground to grow in? Don’t let that stop you. Growing microgreens is easy, economical, resource conserving, and produces nutritious and tasty sprouts for your soup, sandwich or salad. This is a skill you can apply all year long – come learn about how to reuse containers, choose bags of soil, and what seeds work best. All you need is a windowsill or a space near a window.
CHOMP – A Celebration of Local Food and Sustainable Living
Saturday, August 19, 2023 – 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Marymoor Park – 6046 West Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE, Redmond, WA 98052
Celebrate fresh, local, and sustainable with us out in Redmond! You will find a Garden Hotline educator in the Tilth Alliance booth all morning and early afternoon. Bring us your plant identification, insect questions or leaf samples to help you with. We will be offering a paper pot making activity with a late summer seed choice to plant.
Putting the Garden to Bed
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 – 4:00 to 6:00 pm
King County Library – Woodmont
Adding mulch in the fall and growing cover crops on unplanted garden beds for the winter will help protect soil in your garden over the winter. Leaving soil bare makes it vulnerable to nutrient loss and breaks down the healthy structure of the soil. Plant health starts with soil health and fall is the time to set your garden up for success.
Fall Soil Care in Your Edible and Ornamental Garden
Saturday, October 7, 2023 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Marlene’s Market online bi-monthly class series.
Protecting soil in the fall for the coming winter rains is a crucial step to keeping your garden healthy. Learn how to chooses types of mulch for different areas of the garden, what seed to plant for cover crops and where to use them, and other methods to protect soil.
Fall Garden Preparation
Saturday, October 14, 2023 – 9:30 – 10:30 am – online on Zoom
A class in the Series 2, 2023 Master Gardener’s in King County Bellevue Demonstration Garden Series
Get a jump on spring by preparing your garden properly in the fall. Learn how to protect your soil over winter with different mulches and cover crops. Good fall plantings will also be discussed, to encourage and support wildlife in your garden in the winter.
Master Gardeners in King County – Bellevue Demonstration Garden Series
Savvy Gardener and Cascade Water Alliance Classes are online now for registration!
Free natural gardening classes
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