Helpful Titles for Gardening in the Northwest

The Maritime Northwest garden Guide by Seattle Tilth

Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest by Binda Colebrook

The Gardener’s A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food by Tanya L.K. Denckla

Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman

The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman

Organic Gardening by Christine and Michael Lauelle

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon

Food Bank Plot Plan

This is my tentative schedule for our Food Bank Plots.

Gardening Guide Example

In my plannings for the Food Bank plots, I put together this handy guide of Northwest hardy plants with an emphasis on late harvesting. I divided it into sections (brassicas/roots/other) for a simple crop rotation guide.

Sow Inside: Start seeds inside your house.
Sow Cloche: Start seeds in a cloche or under Crop Cover.
Sow Outside: Start seeds in the ground.

Most of this information came from Seattle Tilth's Maritime Northwest Garden Guide. Its $15 at The Food Co-Op, or I have a copy to lend.

Leader Article October 16, 2009

Here's our article from the Peninsula Daily News.

Cider Press Success!

We chopped, we pressed, we drank apple cider! There was talk of bobbing for apples, but it was too cold. A big thanks goes out to Brad and Mary Jo for letting us use their cider press (and for to their son for taking the first shift of pressing). Also in attendance were Bonnie, Buzzy, Cali, Carl, and Gail. In this picture, Brad and Gail feed apples into the grinder. After grinding, the pulp is pressed and the cider drains out the bottom. Don't worry, the left over apple pulp isn't attracting deer to our garden. It was all taken away by two local farmers, Nina and Alexa, to feed their pigs.

Listen about Community Gardening!

Tom Allen of WBCS, the community radio station of Bellevue Community College traveled to Port Townsend to interview gardeners about the boom of community gardens in our area. The broadcasts are available as free downloads at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2968
Happy Listening.