Cover Crops
Rebuild your garden soil with a winter cover crop which is considered a green, plant-based fertilizer that feeds the soil without animal products.
Drying Herbs
Capture the seasonal flavors by preserving fresh herbs. Get started drying, freezing, dehydrating and enhance your meals deep into the winter.
Gardening for All Abilities
Whatever the physical challenge, take heart and continue to enjoy gardening by implementing some of these adaptive methods.
Pollinators
Learn about pollinators and open your eyes to the beauty and intricate connectivity of nature. As gardeners, we can make choices that will enhance or inhibit pollinators.
Veggie Gardening for Rookies
Interested in growing vegetables but wondering where to start? Master gardeners walk you through what to consider when starting a vegetable garden for the first time.
Indoor Grow Stand
Grow herbs and vegetables in the middle of the winter with an indoor growing stand.
Raised Beds
Winter is a great time to plan for next season and explore the many advantages of building raised gardening beds.
Seed Saving 101
Master Gardener Sheri Rylaarsdam shares the fun of getting started saving and sharing seeds from your garden.
Discovery Garden Open House June 24, 2023
Join us for a day of discovery and learning at the Skagit Master Gardener’s Discovery Garden in Mount Vernon
2023 Master Gardener Plant Fair
Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardeners are preparing for their 2023 Plant Fair at the Skagit County Fairgrounds in Mount Vernon on May 13. Free Admission
Midnight Marauders
Master Gardener Diana Wisen discusses slug damage and eradication, one of the most discussed topics among PNW gardeners.
Cool Weather Vegetables
The marine-influenced weather in the Pacific Northwest is the perfect climate for growing cool-season vegetables.
Winter Sowing
The dark days of winter are upon us. As a gardener, this is the time of year we pull out the seed catalogs and start planning for next year.