Think you can’t grow your own salad greens over winter? Think again. Join Clallam County Master Gardener Bob Cain for the Green Thumb Education Series presentation “All About Cool Greens,” for more about what salad crops and greens to grow when days grow short and temperatures cool.

Join Cain in person from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, in the Carver Room at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., or online. Get the Zoom link at extension.wsu.edu/clallam (meeting ID 936 2989 8830, passcode 676224). Or join by phone by calling 253-215-8782.

Cain will discuss the essential phases involved in cold weather gardening including thefirst step, timing.

“This is critical depending on the vegetable, time to mature and when the desired harvest period is,” he said.

He will discuss the fundamentals for site preparation and fertilization, and at the endless vegetable variety possibilities available to the home gardener including most of the cabbage (Brassica) family, including cold hardy lettuce, radishes, mustards and other Asian greens, and odd balls like corn salad, parsnips, leeks and overwintered carrots.

Cain will also talk about the time it takes to harvest these chilly veggies, their cold tolerance and what protection from the cold is required (some need none).

Cain has grown winter greens for many years to calm his salad cravings in winter without going to the store.

“I have been growing vegetables for almost 60 years now in a variety of climates so I know it can be done with a little planning and forethought,” he said.

Cain earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in biology and chemistry and has a Ph.D. in chemistry. He has 40 years of experience growing vegetables in Scotland, Ireland, Colorado and Washington state. Bob has been a veteran of the Clallam County Master Gardeners since 2009. He has written monthly articles on plant disease for the Clallam County Master Gardener Newsletter and is a frequent contributor to newspaper gardening columns.

Cain has been celebrated as the 2009 Master Gardener Intern of the Year and 2011 Master Gardener of the Year. He served as the Garden Manager of the Woodcock Demonstration Garden in Sequim for seven years and is a past President and Board member of the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County.

Sponsored by WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, the Green Thumbs Garden Tips education series is offered on the second and fourth Thursday each month through October (in November, December and January, one program is offered). Scheduled presentations are subject to change. Visit the WSU Extension Clallam County website calendar (extension.wsu.edu/clallam) for the latest information on upcoming presentations.

For more information, call 360-565-2679.