Planning for success in your home vegetable garden

||| FROM PERRI GIBBONS for ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB |||

Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026, as we welcome Professor, Carol Miles. We are excited and grateful to have Carol come in person to Orcas to present how to create a bountiful vegetable garden in the San Juan Islands. Learn about vegetable crops and varieties that grow well in our region, what to look for when selecting crops to grow here, suggested planting schedules, and succession and rotation planting. We hope you plan to come early for coffee and social time at 9:30.

Carol Miles

Carol Miles is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University and is based at the Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center. Carol is the Horticulture Specialist and specializes in vegetable crop production as well as cider apple production, and has a strong interest in alternative crops, sustainable cropping systems, and organic production. Her current research program focuses on sweetpotato production for northern climates, tea propagation, and using soil-biodegradable plastic mulch for vegetable and fruit production. Carol has her M.S. and Ph.D. in vegetable crops from Cornell University.

The presentation begins at 10 at the Orcas Center and via Zoom. For a link to the live Zoom presentation go to the Orcas Island Garden Club website and click the link below the list of presentations. The presentation will be recorded and available to view for four weeks after it is posted. To watch the recorded presentation, go to the link ‘recorded presentations’ under ‘events’ on the club website. Garden club presentations are free and open to the public.