Community Education is offering a "What Went Wrong in My Garden?" class.
From 7 to 8 p.m. today, participants will identify and solve the problems they had with last summer's garden.
The class will be at Ridgeview Elementary, 7001 W. Thirteenth Ave., Kennewick. Cost is $12.
Registration is required and can be made by calling 222-5080.
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The Gallucci Learning Garden, the swath of bright veggies, annuals and neat straw mulch perched on the slope at South 14th and G streets in downtown Tacoma, is offering a free, public series of gardening how-to workshops on Wednesday evenings beginning today. Ranging from gardening basics to urban chickens, the workshops are aimed at hands-on learning and community building.
There were boards to cut, backdrops to paint, and plenty of plants and trees that still needed to be purchased. But Black Hills High School advanced horticulture students felt confident last week that their 10-by-10-foot display garden would be ready for the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, which opens Wednesday at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.
City leaders dedicated the seven-acre Platt Gardens on the slope below the Boise Depot in the summer of 1927. That was two years after the depot opened to great fanfare.
Richland High School was the top school in Washington in collecting money for a fundraiser to pay for blood research and to fight leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
The school's students collected $10,851 as part of the Pasta for Pennies fundraiser during the 2011-12 school year, according to a press release. The three-week event was sponsored by restaurant chain Olive Garden and benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Students around the state and country filled jars with spare change. The class that collected the most money at each participating school received a pasta party as a reward.
Most of the time, the large greenhouses at Tumwater and Black Hills high schools serve as classroom laboratories for horticulture students. But this week, they transform into garden centers for the Tumwater School District’s upcoming plant sale.
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