Researching Plants for our upcoming Giving Gardens

Today we started planning out what we will grow for donation to homeless shelters in the spring and fall.

So we have to do research because growing food in the Northwest can be tricky. It is colder here, our growing season is shorter, and sometimes it gets warm and then has a frosty snap.

Cody and Jaiden doing some research

Here are some helpful websites we've found

Good Information on PNW gardening

http://www.pacificnorthwestgardening.com/beets.htm

  

supper good website with all the info you'd need

http://www.northwest-gardening.com/vegetables/

http://www.northwest-gardening.com/planting-calendar.asp

helpful tips on when to plant

http://westsidegardener.com/quick/timetable.html

http://selfreliantcommunity.wordpress.com/additional-resource-info/homemaking/northwest-planting-guide/

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/calendar

Jaliyah and Cassidy

Julien

Sasha and Adrianna

Next step is we will start making a planting plan for our Giving Garden Beds.