Drop that hose and put an end to hand watering your garden. Join local gardener Tom Riette for the Green Thumb Education Series presentation “A Master Laborer’s Guide to Automated Drip Irrigation” and learn how to water your garden the easy way at the push of a button.

An automated irrigation system can save you time, effort and valuable resources and can keep plants healthier because it gets the water to where it is needed most.

Riette will share his knowledge and experience by providing participants with a basic knowledge of different watering systems and how to program them to make watering almost fully automatic.

“Automated irrigation will free up quite a bit of your time once it is properly designed and installed,” he said.

Riette is a retired telecommunication engineer and local gardener who has lived in California, Arizona and Alaska and for the past nine years has lived in Carlsborg. He started using drip irrigation in 1979 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Central California and continues to sing its praises today.

The Green Thumb Education Series presentation will be held in person from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, March 28th at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 510 E. Park Avenue in Port Angeles.

To join via Zoom, visit https://wsu.zoom.us/j/93629898830 with the meeting ID: 936 2989 8830; Passcode: 676224; or join by phone: 253-215-8782.

The Green Thumb Education Series, sponsored by the Washington State University Clallam County Master Gardeners, is held on the second and fourth Thursday of each month through October. In November, December, and January, one lecture is offered. Scheduled presentations are subject to change. Visit the WSU Extension Clallam County website calendar for the latest information on upcoming presentations. For questions, call 360-565-2678.