Pend Oreille County Master Gardeners offering summer answer clinics

Highly trained and experienced WSU/Pend Oreille County Master Gardeners are available to provide gardening and landscape advice at two different locations this year. The main “Answer Clinic” will be open every Thursday, 4:30-6 p.m. through September at the WSU Extension Office in Newport, 227A S. Garden Ave. In addition, the Master Gardeners will be available for consultation at the Saturday Farmers Market in Newport from 9-1 p.m. The Master Gardeners can also help with plant and insect identification, integrated pest management; soil/composting information and sustainable gardening techniques.

When submitting questions, the Master Gardeners request as much information regarding your problem as possible including specific details (plant species, age, environmental growing conditions, etc.), photos and plant samples. Samples can be dropped off at the Extension Office Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. or brought with you to the Extension Office or Farmer’s Market clinics. Questions and photos of problems can also be emailed to the Master Gardeners at pomastergardeners@outlook.com or called into the Master Gardener Program Coordinator at 509-447-6453. If you wish additional information regarding the clinics or the Master Gardener program, email program coordinator, Dixie Chichester at d.chichester@wsu.edu.