GH Home and Garden Show, May 19, 20

May 17, 2018 1:30 am

By Mary Shane

For The Vidette

You’ll not want to miss this year’s Grays Harbor Home and Garden Show. It’s right around the corner, on May 19 and 20, at the Grays Harbor County Fairgrounds and Event Center. The show is sponsored by the WSU Master Gardeners in both Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties. Admission is free, and parking is, too.

Two outstanding speakers will be at the show this year. If you come on Saturday, you’ll be able to listen Lorene Forkner Edwards, from Seattle. She is the author of “The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest,” and she is the editor of “Pacific Horticulture,” a quarterly publication of the Northwest Horticulture Society. Her topic is “A Good and Delicious Life: 10 Secrets to a Great PNW Vegetable Garden.”

Sunday brings “Container Wars,” a fierce on-stage competition between two WSU Master Gardeners. This challenge is hosted and moderated by a Harbor favorite, Marianne Binetti. Marianne will discuss the what, why and where of this type of gardening. In the end the audience will vote on which planters they like better. This square-off begins at 1 p.m.

Browsing and shopping will be plentiful. The entire Fairground Pavilion will be full of both flower, vegetable and other gardening vendors, along with a full Exhibit Hall of home-oriented vendors.

WSU Master Gardeners not only manage this show, but they will be there to answer plant questions and provide lots of family gardening fun at their children’s corner. The Master Gardener Store is back, as well, selling colorful potted annuals and planters for the deck or patio and bamboo stakes and poles. Coir (a sustainable alternative to sphagnum moss) will also be available at a discounted price.

So much to choose from—and there are drawings this year for fabulous prizes, including a “Taste of Westport Weekend.” Raffle tickets will be just $1, with sales to benefit the WSU Master Gardener Program in Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

The Home and Garden Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.