- Growing Groceries: Starting a Vegetable Garden
- Includes a discussion on site selection, raised beds, planning your crop calendar, plant families, intercropping, succession planting, cover crops, and crop rotation.
- Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants
- Learn proper soil and fertility management and how to grow healthy soil for healthy crops.
- Repair Cafe
- Have something you think can be fixed? Or, are you a fixer and like to help others? The Repair Café is here for you! Bring your vacuums, lamps, bikes, jewelry…anything you might have and one…
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Onion and Beet Families
- The onion (Allium) family includes garlic, leeks, and shallots as well. The beet (Chenopod) family includes everyone’s favorite, spinach, as well as chard and quinoa. Discussion of both families includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common…
- Growing Groceries: Basics of Irrigation & Weed Management
- Join us for a discussion of several types of irrigation products and their application in the food garden. In addition, we’ll focus on the details of installing drip irrigation and its application for gardens and…
- Growing Groceries: Growing Fruit Trees in Western Washington
- You’ll learn the basics of apple and pear fruit production including variety and rootstock selection, nutrient management, and basic care including pruning, irrigation and pest management.
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Pea/Bean Family & the Basics of Cover Cropping
- We'll cover the Legume family which includes peas, beans (both green and dry), and lentils as well as the one member of the Solanaceous family that can be planted out early – potatoes! Discussion of…
- Growing Groceries: Growing Berries in Western Washington
- Topics include variety selection, soil preferences, fertility, pruning, pest and disease management, and cultural requirements for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and other small fruits.
- Growing Groceries: Seed Starting and Raising Transplants
- Beginning with how and when to start to seeds, to watering techniques, thinning and transplanting, you’ll learn how to save money and be successful in starting your vegetables from seed.
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Broccoli and Buckwheat Families
- Includes broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower, mustard, Brussels sprouts, and other members of the Brassica family. Discussion includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common diseases and pests.

Connecting People, Resources and Knowledge

WSU Snohomish County Extension programs connect the people and communities of Snohomish County with the knowledge base of Washington State University to promote quality of life and advance economic well-being through fostering inquiry, learning, and the application of research.

County Programs

Snohomish County Extension

6705 Puget Park Dr.
Snohomish, WA
98296
425-338-2400

Phone Hours: 9 am – 4:30 pm, weekdays

Master Gardener Plant Problem Clinic
January – March
Monday – Thursday, 11am-3pm
April – December
Monday – Thursday, 10am – 4pm
By phone at 425-357-6010,
In-person at Willis Tucker Park, 6705 Puget Park Drive, Snohomish
Or by e-mail at snocomg@gmail.com

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Growing Groceries: Starting a Vegetable Garden

Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants

Repair Cafe

Growing Groceries: Raising the Onion and Beet Families

Growing Groceries: Basics of Irrigation & Weed Management

Growing Groceries: Growing Fruit Trees in Western Washington

Growing Groceries: Raising the Pea/Bean Family & the Basics of Cover Cropping

Growing Groceries: Growing Berries in Western Washington

Growing Groceries: Seed Starting and Raising Transplants

Growing Groceries: Raising the Broccoli and Buckwheat Families

Growing Groceries: Raising the Tomato & Potato Family

Growing Groceries: Growing in Hoop Houses, Cold Frames, and Small Greenhouses

Growing Groceries: Raising the Cucumber, Squash and Melon Family

Growing Groceries: Raising the Carrot, Lettuce, & Corn Families

Growing Groceries: Basics of Seed Saving

Growing Groceries: Pests, Predators, and Pollinators: An Introduction to IPM

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Connecting People, Resources and Knowledge

County Programs

New video! Preserving the Salish Sea by Using Less Plastic

New video! Requiem for the Packaging King

Master Gardener Plant Problem Clinic and Hotline

Bring Back the Pollinators!

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