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Learn how to create a container garden
PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. —
For all those gardeners
who want to grow their
own healthy food but have
little or no outdoor garden
space, here’s the answer:
Do your vegetable garden-
ing in containers.
Award-winning writer
Maggie Stuckey, author of
“The Bountiful Container,”
which Sunset magazine
calls “the defi nitive work”
on the subject, will explain
all the how-tos — including
choosing the container, the
best soil, watering, fertil-
izing, harvesting and more
— in a program that will
visit all fi ve Timberland Re-
gional Libraries in Pacifi c
County, Washington, during
the month of March.
coast
During the program,
Stuckey will share ideas
and tips for success with
container gardening,
answer questions, and
demonstrate how to create
a container garden with
practical planting tips and
the basics of good design.
This is a gardening pro-
gram; specifically, how to
create a full edible garden
— vegetables, herbs, fruits,
and edible flowers — in
containers. It’s perfect for
folks who live in apart-
ments or somewhere else
where there is no actual
garden space — or where
their outdoor garden is too
shady or too something
else to bring success with
vegetables.
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“It’s also, as I’ve come
to understand in recent
years, a very good solution
for folks who no longer
have the flexibility they
once did,” Stuckey said.
“Container gardening is a
lot easier on the knees!”
And here’s the best part:
Everyone in the audience
will be entered into a draw-
ing, and some lucky person
gets to take the finished
garden home.
Like all library pro-
grams, this one is free. The
schedule of presentations
is:
• 2 p.m. March 9 at the
Ocean Park Library,
• 1 p.m. March 11 at the
Ilwaco Library,
• 5:30 p.m. March 16 at
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the Raymond Library,
• 10 a.m. March 18 at
the South Bend Library,
and
• 2 p.m. March 18 at the
Naselle Library.
Stuckey loves to share
her passion for contain-
er gardening with home
gardeners and has made
frequent appearances at
garden clubs, nurseries and
garden centers, and master
gardener events. She
has also been a featured
speaker at: the Flower and
Garden Festival at Disney’s
Epcot, the Philadelphia
Flower Show, the Atlanta
Flower Show, the Seattle
Flower Show, and Port-
land’s Garden & Patio
Show.
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Maggie Stuckey will give a
container gardening presen-
tation and demonstration at
all fi ve Timberland libraries in
Pacifi c County, Washington,
this March.
Stuckey is the author
of 11 nonfi ction books,
mostly about gardening or
cooking — sometimes both.
Several of her books have
been selections of Book
of the Month Club. She
also contributed an essay
to “Chicken Soup for the
Gardener’s Soul” and wrote
the houseplants entry for
Collier’s Encyclopedia.
Autographed copies of
Stuckey’s books will be
available for purchase at
the library events.
Her best-selling book
“The Bountiful Container”
is now in its ninth printing.
The Seattle Post Intelli-
gencer said, “You can farm
right off your deck or patio
with the clear and easy
directions in this book.
Highly recommended for
those without the space,
time or strength to till the
soil. This book nourishes
body and soul.”