The Bainbridge Island Fruit Club’s June meeting is all about blueberries.

The club welcomes Pam Sinclair as its guest speaker for the next meeting, coming at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 15 at the Bainbridge Grange Hall (10340 Madison Ave. NE).

Sinclair will give an overview of growing blueberries; how to select, grow (soils, pH, watering, fertilizing, pruning, etc.) and the common problems blueberry growers face.

Sinclair is a longtime nursery person, a certified professional horticulturist and garden educator. She has taught college-level soil and plant ID classes, and does a series of basic gardening classes for Valley Nursery in Poulsbo each spring. She has also been published in several national gardening publications.

She has been operating GardenGal Designs, a landscape design and consultation business, for the past 25 years. A longtime resident of the north Seattle aream she moved to Kitsap about 10 years ago and came to Bainbridge last year.

All are welcome.

The Bainbridge Island Fruit Club is a chapter of The Western Cascade Fruit Society. For more information, visit http://www.bifruitclub.wordpress.com.