Group offering 'drop-in' garden clinic

A garden clinic at the WSU Master Gardener Demonstration Garden will take place Friday, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. It is a chance to visit with local Master Gardeners about gardening in the region.

Participants can also watch a demonstration and learn a simple way to test the pH of your garden soil and how to make soil blocks, repeated every hour. Also, watch a wide variety of gardening techniques and what’s growing in the demonstration garden. Tours will start every 15 minutes. At the on-site answer clinic, residents can bring gardening questions (and plant or insect samples, if possible). WSU Master Gardeners will be standing by to research problems and provide management options. Refreshments will be provided.

The garden is located just northwest of the Extension Office. Park in the Extension Office parking lot, 227 S. Garden Ave., Newport, and walk the short distance to the garden.

WSU Extension programs are offered without regard to race, sex, religion, age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, physical, mental or sensory disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era or disabled veteran. Persons with a disability requiring special accommodations while participating in this program may call 509-447-2401 at least 14 days before the program.