- Sustainable Community Stewards Repair Cafe
- Got broken stuff? Toss it? No way! Bring it to a WSU Repair Café! Sustainable Community Steward Volunteers are offering our next Repair Café Saturday, October 1st, 2022 Bring your broken items from 10 am –…
- Glacier Peak Institute Fall Partnership Breakfast
- Save the date! Glacier Peak Institute will be hosting our Fall Partnership Breakfast on Tuesday, November 8, at the Marysville Historical Society. Click the below link for more information and to register! We're bringing together…
- 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.
- 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: Pruning 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: Raising 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.
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Tomato & Potato Family
- Topics covered include variety selection, cultural requirements, as well as the major disease and pests affecting these species.
- Growing Groceries: Growing in Hoop Houses, Cold Frames, and Small Greenhouses
- An unheated greenhouse or cold frame can be used to grow greens during winter, start warm season annuals, propagate landscape perennials, and shelter frost tender plants through the winter chill. Besides greens like spinach and…
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Cucumber, Squash and Melon Family
- This class in the Growing Groceries series will focus on growing all things Cucurbit! From luscious melons to giant pumpkins, summer squash to zucchini and winter squash we'll cover all these amazing vegetables and cucumbers…
- Growing Groceries: Raising the Carrot, Lettuce, & Corn Families
- The Carrot (Apiaceae) family also includes parsnips and celery along with many herbs like dill, fennel, and caraway. Puget Sound's mild climate makes it a great place to grow members of the lettuce (Asteraceae) family just about year-round.…
- Growing Groceries: Raising Culinary & Tea Herbs
- We’ll cover the basic perennial and annual herbs used in so many sweet and savory dishes along with the not-so-common ones like epazote and lemongrass. In addition, we’ll talk about some of the easy to…
- Growing Groceries: Pests, Predators, and Pollinators: An Introduction to IPM
- Basics of managing disease, insect, and weed pests in the home garden. Discussion covers a variety of techniques including prevention, cultural practices like row covers, mulching, and more. Weed management practices include using mulches, hardscaping,…

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
Available 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