Winter Garden Preparations
Portland Nursery wants your gardens to remain healthy and happy during the cold season and they have some tips to keep in mind for the inevitable winter weather events that […]
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Pet Safety in the Garden
Recently Portland Nursery shared information from DoveLewis Animal Hospital about things to keep in mind when our furry family members are in the garden. Know Your PlantsAccording to the ASPCA,
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Spring Soil Preparation: How to Get Your Raised Beds Ready For Vegetable Planting
By Amelia Barker Spring is around the corner in Portland and soon it will be time to plant early season crops like lettuces, sugar snap peas, radishes, broccoli and kale
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Native Plants and Workshops to Save Water Outdoors
The Portland Water Bureau is thinking of you as you’re thinking about warmer days and spring gardening. Top on their list of suggestions to save water outdoors is to plant
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Sourcing Seeds For Your Home Vegetable Garden
By Ian Wilson, Portland Edible Gardens On these shortest days of the year, it’s easy to feel like the growing season is forever away, but in just a couple of
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Preparing Your Winter Garden: Straw Mulch vs Cover Crop
By Ian Wilson Autumn in the Pacific Northwest is the time of year to start preparing gardens for the cold wet winter months. During the late summer and early fall
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Top 10 Pepper Varieties to Grow in Pacific Northwest Gardens
By Pritha Golden Steele One thing to know about peppers is that they truly love the heat! While we don’t have the hottest climate in the Pacific Northwest, we can
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Why Grow Food in Raised Beds?
By Pritha Golden Steele, Portland Edible Gardens Gardening is both an art and a science, and for many, a bit of a mystery. I can’t tell you how many people
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Using Row Cover And Mulch To Get More Out Of Your Winter Garden
By Pritha Golden, Portland Edible Gardens Have you ever planted fall or winter veggies only to grow small plants that never reach maturity? Or have you lost your plants to
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Watering During a Heatwave
By Portland Nursery Hot weather will likely be arriving before long and we have some important tips we wanted to share with you so you’re ready. Tips for Watering Watering
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Planting Season Has Begun
By Portland Nursery Assuming your ground is workable, March is first planting time for most of us. If you have water-logged clay soil, you might want to cover it with
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Grow Your Own Produce Garden Series
It’s not too early to start thinking about your garden, whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to build upon or improve your existing garden. Permaculture Rising has a virtual
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How to Successfully Grow Cilantro
By Pritha Golden, Portland Edible Gardens While many of us associate cilantro with tomatoes, tomatillos and hot chili peppers, this beloved herb does not like the heat like those other
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Gardening and Aging Well
By Rachel Hemmingson, Consultant & Advocate for Aging Well Ever since the stay-at-home decree, I’ve observed one small business down the street from me being absolutely swamped: it’s a garden
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What to Plant Now in Your Home Garden
By Ian Wilson, Portland Edible Gardens Summer is in full swing. Spring greens have wilted away in the heat, tomatoes are starting to ripen on the vines, zucchini’s broad canopy
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Pandemic Victory Gardens
By Kris McDowell The concept of victory gardens (aka war gardens) became prevalent during WWI when the government asked citizens to grow food wherever they could. Since then, there have
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