Master Gardener Foundation of King County

Board Elections Close
2025-05-15 | WA

Grow Cukes, Squash and Melons – Big and Small
2025-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Grow Cukes, Squash and Melons – Big and Small with Extension Master Gardeners Sue Kraemer and Jim Olson.
Cucurbits love heat! When the soil warms up, it’s time to plant cucumbers, squash and melons. Come find out which varieties do best in Western Washington as well as tips for planting, growing, harvesting and pest management. Cucurbits can be large and sprawling although some varieties are bred for growing in pots. Presenters will share space saving tips using trellises and containers.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Bellevue Demonstration Garden Annual Spring Plant Sale
2025-05-10 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bellevue Demonstration Garden, 15500 SE 16th St., Bellevue, WA, 98007, United States
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday May 10th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Event: Bellevue Demonstration Garden Annual Spring Plant Sale
Location:
Bellevue Demonstration Garden
15500 SE 16th St
Bellevue, WA 98007

The Bellevue Demonstration Garden Annual Spring Plant Sale is coming your way! This is a community event, please share this info with your friends and neighbors. The sale will feature warm-season veggie starts as well as ornamentals, a garden flea market, a large supply of burlap sacks, a MG Plant Clinic, and more.

To respond to high demand, this year we are expanding the variety and quantity of tomato plants for your garden. The veggie starts, including basil, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, and tomato, are grown by Extension Master Gardeners at the City of Bellevue greenhouse located a few blocks from BDG. Ornamentals for sale will include in-season nursery selections as well as plants grown by Extension Master Gardeners. We will have colorful annuals and perennials, shrubs, herbs, grasses, and ‘spillers and thrillers’ for container gardening.

Master Gardeners will be on site to answer questions and assist with plant selection.

Nearby parking is available both on the street and in the parking lot.

Proceeds from demonstration garden plant sales enable the Master Gardener Foundation of King County to support the activities of the WSU Extension King County Master Gardener Program. Cash, Check, and Credit Card will be accepted.

Master Gardener Pop-up Clinic: Redmond Garden Club Plant Sale
2025-05-10 08:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA

Board Meeting
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-04-10 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-01-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online via Zoom Platform
The Master Gardener Foundation of King County holds two regular meetings: recurring Board Meetings and an Annual Meeting. Board meetings are regularly scheduled from 7:00-8:30PM the second Thursday of the month, generally via teleconference. Foundation members may attend any Board meeting as observers or by invitation. Contact Board President, president@mgfkc.org, if you would like to attend. Agendas and minutes of the Board meetings are found in the Foundation Board archives.

Special meetings may be called at any time by the President or by request of the membership. Notice of special meetings will be sent to the membership via e-mail not less than 10 days prior to the date of the meeting. [MGFKC By-Laws 5.5, January 2013; Article VII, Meetings]

The Board of Directors shall hold regular meetings at such times and places as the Board decides. Board meeting times and locations are regularly published in The Connection, the Newsletter of the Master Gardeners of King County and the Master Gardener Foundation of King County. Recent issues may be found under Resources / Newsletters.

NOTE: Most meetings are conducted via Zoom. In person Board meetings are usually held in the Extension Master Gardener program office at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle. During the summer months, the Board may move its regularly scheduled meetings to various Master Gardener gardens in order to become familiar with these locations. Changes to these locations will be posted here as they become available.

Neely-Soames Homestead Demonstration Garden Plant Sale
2025-05-03 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Neely-Soames Homestead Demonstration Garden, 5311 South 237th Place, Kent, WA, 98032, United States
The Neely-Soames Homestead Demonstration Garden Plant Sale will be
held on Saturday, May 3 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m at the Neely-Soames
Homestead, 5311 S 237th Place in Kent. The sale will feature annual and
perennial ornamentals, natives, and edibles, and an Extension Master
Gardener Plant Clinic.

Protecting our Unsung Heros, our Pollinators
2025-05-03 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Protecting our Unsung Heroes, our Pollinators. Speaker: Sue Melgaard, Extension Master Gardener
Presentation: For food security and survival of our plant species, pollination is critical and needs to be a high priority. Sue will present how to create a healthy habitat for our pollinator and beneficial insects.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Roots and Rare Fruits
2025-04-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Roots and Rare Fruits with Extension Master Gardeners Margaret MacLeod and Brandon Bray.
A wide variety of root crops and less commonly grown fruits can thrive in Western Washington. Margaret and Brandon describe how to select, grow and harvest root veggies and some of the more rare fruits that grow in our region
Cost to Register: $8.00
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BDG Workshop: Pruning for Healthy Trees
2025-04-26 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bellevue Demonstration Garden, 15500 SE 16th St., Bellevue, WA, 98007, United States
Bellevue Demonstration Garden is again offering in-person workshops.
These in-person workshops will spotlight Master Gardeners who have combined knowledge
amounting to hundreds of years! Veteran and novice gardeners alike will benefit from these
presentations derived from science-based research, personal experience and state-of-the-art
methods. Workshops will consist of a 30-to-45-minute presentations in the park shelter
followed by a 20-to-30-minute demonstration or hands-on experience.
Garden Shelter at 15500 SE 16th St, Bellevue, WA 98007
Topic: Pruning for Healthy Trees
Speaker: Brandon Bray
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Location

Bellevue Demo Garden
15500 SE 16th St
Bellevue, WA 98006

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Plant It Where the Sun Don't Shine
2025-04-26 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Plant It Where the Sun Don’t Shine. Speaker: Greg Butler, Garden Designer and Educator.
Presentation: Here in the PNW, dry shade is a common gardening challenge. Fortunately, there are many species adapted to these conditions, and a plethora of native and exotic plants thrive in the parched shadow of conifers, deciduous woodlands, and north facing walls. We’ll discuss assessing and modifying site conditions, and then consider a wide assortment of trees, shrubs, perennials and ground covers that aren’t afraid of the dark.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Grow the 'Other' Edible Nightshades: Pepppers, Tomatillos, Eggplant
2025-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Grow the ‘Other’ Edible Nightshades: Peppers, Tomatillos, Eggplant with Extension Master Gardener, Jean Jones.
What does it take to grow sumptuous peppers, tomatillos, and eggplant? Are you hungry for tips to control those pesky flea beetles? Jean shares her expertise about cultivar selection, planting, growing, and enjoying these popular edible nightshades.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Board Elections Open
2025-04-15 | WA

Gardening with Children
2025-04-12 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Gardening with Children. Speaker: Pauline O’Rourke, Extension Master Gardener and Instructor “Living Lab” and “Kids in the Garden” classes at the Bellevue Botanical Garden.
Presentation: Bring your children and grandchildren into the garden to learn about our natural world. They will discover where our food comes from, watch pollinators at work, and see how worms help our soil.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Beacon Food Forest: Seattle's Communal, Edible Landscape
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Beacon Food Forest: Seattle’s Communal, Edible Landscape with Beacon Food Forest Educator, Elise Evans.
In 2009, four friends looked at a bare sunny hillside in Jefferson Park and dreamed that the diverse and dynamic community of Beacon Hill could have a source of delicious, organic, free food. Fifteen years later, the Beacon Food Forest (BFF) has grown into a 4 acre community oasis where visitors speak many languages, children wander shaded paths hunting for berries, elders harvest herbs for medicinal teas and recent immigrants meet long-time residents while picking juicy tomatoes. In this class, Elise Evans, Seattle P-Patch Community Garden Coordinator at BFF, will introduce us to many edible plant varieties that are less familiar yet adapted to grow well in the PNW. She will discuss plant guilds and other strategies used to build a perennial forest ecosystem that is culturally relevant to people of many backgrounds; one that might also serve as a model for creating edible landscapes, both big and small, in the home garden setting.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Mastering Mason Bees: Essential Insights for Successful Spring Pollination
2025-03-22 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Dave Hunter, Owner and Founder of Crown Bees
Join Dave for an enlightening session designed for master gardeners. In this workshop, Dave will share his extensive knowledge on how to harmonize with nature to maximize the success of spring pollination with local native mason bee. Learn practical strategies and gain valuable insights that you can apply and pass on to others, ensuring a thriving and productive gardening season.
Cost to register: $8.00
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What's a Garden Without Tomatoes?
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
What’s a Garden Without Tomatoes? with Extension Master Gardener Sharon Peach and 21 Acres Educator Ansley Roberts.
Most everyone that grows edibles dreams of those mouth-watering tomatoes. Whether grape-sized, cherry types, slicers, sauce or beefy types, tomatoes are prized in the garden. What does it take to be successful at growing great tomatoes? Join Master Gardener Sharon Peach as she shares her expertise about cultivar selection, planting, growing, and enjoying this popular food crop. Cap off the evening with Ansley Roberts, Farm Manager for 21 Acres, who will introduce us to “dry farming”. Not sure what that is? Come find out!
Cost to register: $8.00
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Best but Unusual Companion Plants for Rhododendrons
2025-03-08 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Atsuko Gibson, Nursery Manager at Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden
Whether your rhododendrons are big or small, there are always some plants that can be grown with them. Atsuko will introduce you to unusual perennials that pair well with your existing rhododendron plantings, or in a trough or large container planting.
Cost to register: $8.00
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All About Brassicas
2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
All About Brassicas with Extension Master Gardener Sue Kraemer and Extension Program Manager, SNAP-Ed, Hillary Miller.
The Brassicas are a huge family of tasty and nutrition-packed veggies that includes horseradish, radishes, broccoli, cabbage, collards, cauliflower, kale, arugula and more! Brassicas are prominent in world-wide cuisine. These cool weather vegetables are among the first planted each year, and some can be grown throughout the year to add seasonal variety to your dinner menu. In this class, Extension Master Gardener Sue Kraemer and SNAP-Ed Program Manager Hillary Miller will discuss health benefits, variety selection, cultural requirements, major diseases and pests, and how to entice youth to “eat your veggies”.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Wildlife Friendly Gardening for Natural Pest Control
2025-02-22 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Laura Matter, Seattle Tilth
When you create a wildlife friendly habitat for birds and insects, they in turn will provide you with natural pest and weed control. This class will teach you about the plants and design techniques that attract these delightful creatures to visit and live in your backyard.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Essential Culinary Combinations
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Essential Culinary Combinations with Extension Master Gardeners Gia Parsons and Wendy Jordan.
Many cultures use a specific combination of veggies and herbs to form the flavor basis for soups, stews and sautés. In this class, EMG and Shorewood Demo Garden Culinary Arts instructor Wendy Jordan teams up with EMG and Marymoor Community Garden coordinator Gia Parsons to introduce us to the aromatics of world-wide cuisine. Many of the ingredients can be grown right here in the PNW! Our presenters will tell us how.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Balcony to Backyard: PNW Climate Adapted Gardening
2025-02-08 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Del Brummet, head gardener of the Elisabeth C Miller Botanical Garden, will take you on a journey through the building and maintenance of his low water home garden. What techniques help to grow and establish a variety of plants with lower water needs? How do you pick plants for narrow spaces with shifting light throughout the year? Del’s garden features a variety of native plants combined with exotics which work together to create year-round interest while being mindful of ecological practices. From the extremely sunny back patio to the shaded under cedar section there should be something to learn for anyone who attends.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Early Starts, Early Harvests
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Early Starts, Early Harvests with Extension Master Gardener Anne Neilson.
It’s still mid-winter but don’t be deterred! There are edibles that you can direct sow or plant as purchased seedlings now; others that you might consider raising in seed trays for transplanting in about 6 weeks. Extension Master Gardener Anne Neilson will lead you through a variety of her favorite veggies to start early in the year. These crops produce a wonderful selection of foods to harvest and enjoy by the end of June which opens up space to plant those warm season veggies. Or…maybe you manage a school garden or are planning an extended summer vacation? Early Starts, Early Harvests provides strategies to get the growing going early and allows you take the summer off!
Cost to register: $8.00
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Growing Roses in Today's World
2025-01-25 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Michele Thomas, Extension Master Gardener
Just in time for spring, this presentation will give participant’s some history of roses, the most popular rose types, and roses best suited for our changing climate. Site selection (including different climates in King County), soil prep, and planting instructions will be discussed. Pruning, spring and fall rose care, and disease and pest management will also be addressed. Get ready for a successful season of roses.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Vegetable Gardening in the PNW
2025-01-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Vegetable Gardening in the PNW with Extension Master Gardener Jim Olson. There are six keys to successfully growing vegetables in our area of the Pacific Northwest, preparing your planting location, timing of seed starting, key items for caring of plants and how to recognize and treat problems on plants during their path to your plate at the peak of flavor. The focus is how to use the six steps to prevent problems, and where that doesn’t work, how to treat them.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Tips for New (and Experienced) Gardeners
2025-01-11 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom Platform
Speaker: Bruce Bennet, Extension Master Gardener.
This presentation will provide new gardeners with introductory information that has been revised through WSU and OSU research and by the speaker’s professional practice for the past twenty years. As plants and weather change over the years, so do the growing guidelines and even seasoned gardeners can use a refresher class. Topics include new garden prep, different garden options, typical gardening mistakes, and other pertinent issues.
Cost to register: $8.00
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Garden and Nature Science for Kids with King County Master Gardeners
2024-12-14 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Learn about the science of how things grow with Master Gardener Maggie!
These hour long presentations are being held at the Redmond Library on selected Saturdays from September 2024 to May 2025.
Children ages 7-12 (with an adult) are invited to attend. Each child will receive a kit of program materials and extension activities for science exploration at home.
Registration is not required and there will be materials available for a maximum of 25 children.
No admittance after the first 15 minutes.
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CLASS SCHEDULE

September 14: Apples – America’s Favorite Fruit
October 5: Pumpkins – Fruit or Vegetable?
November 16: Plants – Key to Survival 500 Years Ago
December 14: Roots – Out of Sight, Very Important!
January 25: Gardening for our Fabulous Feathered Friends
February 22: Soil is Not a Dirty Word
March 22: Marvelous Mason Bees
April 19: Seeds are Promises to Sprout
May 17: Wonderful Worms

In partnership with the Master Gardeners Foundation of King County.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Redmond Library.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.
Credit: Redmond Library Event Calendar https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/66e3372639f0865e52ccffd2
