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Senior Gardening day is Tuesday, September 14 at 9000 SE Division. Read more about the event and see the fun from last year on our Senior Gardening Day feature.
Sponsors Portland Parks & Recreation Friends of the Portland Memory Garden, Home Instead and Portland Nursery come together to provide a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations geared especially for the elder gardeners in our community.
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Take your extra produce to where it can be used is easy: visit the Oregon Food Bank website to see the list of the produce that works best for food boxes.
Stop in at the information desk at either Portland Nursery location and see the Oregon Food Bank notebook for neighborhood maps to find the closest food pantry. And as a thank you from us, take home a free packet of seeds! “…because no one should be hungry.” (OFB)
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CLASSES ALL MONTH LONG
Classes fill up quickly. Please use our new registration system to save yourself a spot!
See detail on our Events Page
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To gain access to this great online information service and ask your own questions, sign up for our newsletter and get a coupon for 25% off pottery in the deal!
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Our Planter for the month of September
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GINGER GOLD APPLES HERE!!
Pre-Apple Tasting special!!
ONLY AT 5050 SE STARK
Gravenstein apples are already done for the year, but right on their heels is another delicious early apple: Ginger Gold.
Ginger Gold is a chance seedling from Virginia, with green skin and crisp, creamy yellow flesh that is a great fresh-eating, sweet-flavored apple. It keeps longer than the Gravenstein (it will still be available by the time Apple Tasting comes around), but we were able to get some of the first harvest and have it available at our Stark Street location – still at the fabulous Apple Tasting price of only $ .89/pound!
While they last….call first to confirm availability.
COMPANION PLANTING
New brochure: An Introduction and Guide to Healthy Plant Relationships
Companion planting is a technique based on a long history of observations of the interaction between plants in the garden. Certain combinations of plants can add to, or detract, from the abundance and health of edibles in your garden by altering the soil, attracting or repelling insects or creating a helpful microclimate.
Download our Companion Planting brochure
CROP ROTATION
New brochure: Crop Rotation is utilized to increase yields and diminish pest and disease problems.
Crop rotation is the practice of alternating crops of specific vegetable families to different areas of the garden from year to year. This gives the soil a rest from each vegetable family before that family appears in the same garden space again.
Download our Crop Rotation Brochure
SEPTEMBER PLANT PICKS
Each month our buyers select a favorite plant that is readily available in our yard for that month. You can find this month's plant picks below.
See all of our plant picks in our archives:
| Perennial Pick: Dahlia |
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| Tree & Shrub: Lagerstroemia Crape Myrtle |
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| Native Pick: Sedum |
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NEW FAQS
“I have a lot of clover I want to get rid of. What can I do?” July 2010
To tackle that question, I need a little bit more information. Is the clover in a space by itself? Is it amongst the lawn? Amongst other plants, such as your perennial beds? Under shrubbery?
If the clover is mixed into your lawn there are products that can kill the clover without hurting the lawn. These are called selective herbicides. Read more..
New Videos
Each month we add new videos to our Tips page.