One More Row Garden Share
Hello Veggie and Fruit Eaters,
This group is for those whom the Lord has blessed with a bounty of produce in their gardens and for those folks who are glad to receive a portion of this bounty.
August through October a table will be set up on Sunday mornings on the sidewalk outside of the NW entrance ( near the kitchen). You can drop off, take or swap what is on the table. Please try to bring your own reusable bags but there will be bags provided.
Produce that is not used by church attenders will be gathered up, stored and taken the next day to Neighborhood House for their Food Program. Fresh produce does not stay long on their shelves !
If you have neighbors that want to take part - Great! Invite them! No- they don't have to attend the church service to take part.
You can also post comments ( if registered) to see if any one in the group can use something you have or maybe someone has some produce available you could use.
Please check back to this group site for some timely hints about vegetable gardening.
Bon Apetit,
Chris Steinkamp
February 26, 2009 Snow again ??
February 26, 2009
Well- it snowed again last night. But some spring flowers and my little soil thermometer shows me that spring is approaching.
Last week I had a talk with Frankie, the Food Box Coordinator for Multnomah Neighborhood house, about what fresh produce he would like to see donated this growing season. He stated any kind of crop was fine as long as they were in good edible condition. Now, here is the amazing thing- he even said zucchini would be welcome- Wow !
Let’s get those gardens growing and feed some people.
The soil temperature is hovering around 45 degrees about 4 inches deep in my front yard but is about 43 degrees at church by the playground. The recent rains and snow have gotten the soil too wet to work so some of us now need to wait a bit longer for more drying before working up our garden soil.
But for those of you that have well drained soil, you could think about sowing directly outdoors the following:
Peas, fava beans, arugula, radish, garlic, shallots, onion sets, parsley (takes a long time to germinate), cilantro, broccoli, greens, beets, spinach, chard, New Zealand spinach
*Be sure to check the seed catalogs for characteristic of the variety of seed you choose. Some have been developed for growing in the variable weather of our springtime here in the Northwest.
Mid- Feburary 2009 Can I start my garden yet ?
It is snowing as I am writing this. Again! Yet, visions of growing veggies are dancing in my head. That is about the only place they can dance right now. The question that comes to mind is- Can anything be planted yet for the One More Row program?
For raised beds, if you check your soil temperature and cloche the beds you can probably get started on this year’s growing season with spring greens and spinach along with early peas.
If you don’t have raised beds and need to till your garden space, then I would say don’t till your garden until your soil has dried out a bit but try your hand as some early peas. But that depends on your drainage, soil texture, and how you prepared your garden last fall.