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Jun 15 2010, 12:10 PM
Though starting your own seedlings can be rewarding, it takes lots of time. Once seedlings are started they need daily care. If you are short of time or away frequently the latter is for you. Seedlings also take up indoor space protected from animals and small children. This year you may want to buy bedding or mature plants from a commercial grower. This isn’t considered cheating and guarantees results.If you are going to start seeds, the first thing you want to do is check the gestation times on your seed packages. Count back from the date of your last expected frost. This will give you a planting date. Gestation is usually a six- to eight-week period, each plant is on its own schedule. Starting your seedlings too early results in long stringy weak plants.
Suquamish filmmaker captures, presents 'Invisible Shoreline'
Jun 15 2010, 12:05 PM
The Puget Sound is catching to the eye; tourists come to see lolling waves, whales and palm-sized shoreline treasures. For watershed locals, Suquamish filmmaker John Williams wants to develop an awareness of the sound's tinier elements — inhabitants so small, the human eye alone can't sense them.
South Kitsap grad’s book chosen for Kitsap Library's 'One Book, One Community'
Jun 16 2010, 11:06 AM
A book written by a South Kitsap High graduate has been selected by the Kitsap Regional Library for its “One Book, One Community” program. The library hopes come October, its county-wide patrons will join in reading and discussing “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” a book about Chinese and Japanese families living in Seattle at the time of Pearl Harbor. The “One Book, One Community” program is designed to encourage reading and book discussion.The library staff and members of its board of trustees chose “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” for its sense of hope and regional connection.
Duck! Gallagher comes to Bremerton's Admiral Theatre June 24
Jun 16 2010, 9:41 AM
Comedy legend Gallagher will shower his audience with humor — and splash them with plenty of other things too — at his show at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 24, at the Admiral Theatre, 515 Pacific Avenue, Bremerton.
All about the beer: First-time Hopstock kicks off in Kitsap
Jun 18 2010, 9:12 AM
A new event in Kitsap is celebrating the county's growing beer scene. The inaugural week-long, peninsula-wide series of events is called Hopstock, and brewers and bar owners alike are hoping for a healthy turnout.
Thunderbird Pro Rodeo back for sixth year
Jun 22 2010, 2:59 PM
What started as a small charity rodeo has burgeoned into an award-winning event in Kitsap County.
Youth present storybook 'Cinderella' on CSTOCK stage
Jun 22 2010, 2:59 PM
Thirty local kids, ages 6 to 19, will take the stage at (CSTOCK) in a storybook production of “Cinderella” beginning Friday, June 25. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 6 p.m. Sundays through July 11.Director Andrea Gonzales said the much-loved story translates well to the stage, and is one all audiences will enjoy, both those in search of good theater and younger onlookers who will likely be swept away by the fairytale music and costuming.
Port Orchard Street Scramble celebrates start of summer
Jun 22 2010, 2:58 PM
Saturday’s Street Scramble in Port Orchard will be a lesson in concentration as much as it will be a lesson in the city’s lesser-known treasures.
Kitsap Twilight fans put 'Eclipse' hooplah to a good cause
Jun 22 2010, 3:11 PM
Put a finger on a map at Forks, the famed setting of author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, and a thumb on Seattle, where a bloodthirsty band of vampires stages its uprising in “Eclipse,” the third book in the series, then pull your finger and thumb together.
Seattle band The Kindness Kind can't be categorized
Jun 29 2010, 2:18 PM
For new bands the local music scene is full of opportunity, but standing out from the rest can be difficult.