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COASTAL LIFE
It’s time to spring into the garden
Razor Clam Festival
Long Beach hosts chowder tastings, contests, music and more
ARTS
Jesse Lee Falls
He’s paid his dues. Now he shares his music and knowledge
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The Maritime (Poetry) Memorial
April is National Poetry Month — the perfect time to visit this site
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Creamery, from Cathlamet, had
samples of fresh goat cheese.
Co-owner Vicki Allenback said
the farm allows visitors in at 1
p.m. every day to help feed the
goats. (I can’t wait to plan my
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the seminar also included a kids
craft section, food demos and
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and a large section of vendors
offering plants, tools, books and
more. There were plenty of or-
namentals as well as vegetable
NOTES FROM THE EDITOR
starts. I walked away with some
leeks that are eager to get in the
ground, and my friend showed
For me, gardening is end of summer,” Retzlaff said. off her evergreen huckleberry
peaceful, a way to connect Peppers especially need hot bush. I also picked up a jar of
with nature and a source of GD\V WR GHYHORS WKHLU KRW ÀD- gooseberry jam from Water-
pride.
vors. “Be prepared to do a lot of shed Garden Works, a farm and
Sure, the weeding and water- hand holding with that basil.”
nursery from Longview. Their
ing schedule can sometimes be
One melon that’s known jams and jellies — quince,
monotonous, but there’s nothing local success is the Minnesota cherry, apple, pear, pepper and
like putting your hands in the dirt midget, a softball-sized variety more — are all made from fruit
and making something grow.
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Last weekend I attended the takes about 70 days to mature.
Gloria’s Garden Gems of-
Clatsop County Master Gar-
And, of course, other veg- fered cute patio furniture and
deners’ Spring into Gardening gies are easy to grow: leafy homemade birdbaths. Starva-
VHPLQDU IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH DQG greens like chard, lettuce, peas, tion Alley Farms, an organic
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cranberry farm in Long Beach,
spiration for gorgeous gardens.
Beyond the presentation on handed out juice samples.
This year’s seminar focused vegetables and another on soil,
Skamokawa
Farmstead
on “Food, Glorious Food” with
help from the North Coast
Food Web — lucky for me,
since I like to grow vegetables.
Local farmer and NCFW
outreach coordinator Tere-
sa Retzlaff and NCFW board
member Kelly Huckestein pre-
sented to a standing-room-only
crowd about the best vegeta-
bles to grow on the coast. The
key, they said, is to choose va-
rieties with smaller fruits and
shorter growing seasons.
There are some vegetable
heartbreakers out there: toma-
toes, basil, peppers, melons. Big
beefsteaks won’t do that well,
but cherry and grape tomatoes
are more successful.
“We don’t get that heat at
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