r/portlandgardeners

Hello everyone!

My partner and I have been working on a platform for gardeners in Portland and the surrounding area to share their excess homegrown produce with the community. We call it The More You grow. Our goal is to create a service that improves food resiliency without relying on federal funding or donations. We officially launched last month and already have a couple hundred sign ups! You don't have to be a gardener to join, you just have to be fan of locally grown food. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Does anyone have any recommendations for good apps for plant identification? have a book that I love using for hikes but I need more. I have a large yard and I cannot tell the difference between invasive weeds and normal plants (not from PNW). I want accurate information.

Hello y'all I have a five gallon that is overflowing now with plants after taking down a 40 gallon. I can't bear to throw plants away so I've got several species of crypts, a rotala sp that turns pink, anubias species, and mosses.

Does anyone want some or would be willing to trade a cutting for a handful?

A five gallon aquarium overflowing with different types of plants

A few months ago, someone was asking for cut grape vines for baskets, I think?? Anyway, I'm going to be trimming back my grapes, so please let me know if anybody is interested. They will go out with the yard debris on Tuesday.

I have a large pot with no use for it. I would say it’s about 2x2 feet and 4 feet tall. I want to add in a perennial and/or evergreen native but don’t want to put anything in there that wouldn’t be happy. Thoughts? TIA!

There are so few this year. Is it the cooler weather? I have more flowers this year and decidedly less bees than the previous two seasons? Anyone else?

2nd year of my garden and holy pests! I have BT for the cabbage worms, but have read that won’t do anything for aphids and squash bugs. Does jet streaming the aphids off really work? I’ve seen one lady beetle out there fighting the good fight.

My current plan of attack is wash the kale and brussel sprouts, then spray with BT. I’ve also got neem oil, but have since read it can harm bees. What else do you recommend doing? (Aphids and worms are on kale brussel sprouts, squash bugs are on squash)

Last year I had slugs and earwigs go after my tomatoes later in the season, so I assume that will happen again. Ah! Help

Barely 50% inventory at each location. Large sections of bare rock, lots of mostly bare tables. Asked if they had any more than the 2 homely little shrubs I was looking for and they said no, and they aren’t planning on ordering any further inventory.

I transplanted some zinnia starts, and put a few dahlia tubers in the ground in late may... And nothing has come up yet, zinnias still not blooming, and seem top heavy. I thought the seed pack said 35 days to bloom, so it seems off..

I use horsetail as sandpaper and I am almost out of my dried stock of it. I’d love to grow my own if there’s anyone that’s willing to divide some of theirs. I also have a prolific garden and could offer up a plant in return. Or perhaps to repair some broken pottery for you. Anyways, here’s hoping!