PDX FOOD PLANTING GUIDE

Planting your own food is a wonderful way to eat the freshest, most deliciously healthy food you can get your hands on. It’s farm to table everyday when you harvest food from your yard. Ready to start planting your own food? Perhaps a spaghetti garden or salsa garden? A pickle patch?
Take a LOOK HERE at Portland Nursery’s helpful guide of when to plant food in Portland!


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Growing Potatoes = Magic!

There is truly no potato more delicious than a potato fresh from the ground! Did you know that potatoes are super cheap and easy to grow and the absolute most fun veggie to harvest?!

You can buy seed potatoes or if you have a favorite store bought potato you can let them go to seed.  To seed an existing potato let it start to sprout, once green/white shoots have started you can cut the potato and plant those right in your prepared beds.

We prep our beds in mid March and get the potatoes in the ground before April.  They don’t require any fancy excessive watering or staking, just plant them, give them a little love and wait.  Once the leaves start to yellow and die it’s time to harvest!  I like to do a pretty lengthy watering before harvesting to help soften the soil, making it easier to pull the entire plant.

Once you pull them don’t wash them until you are ready to eat.  Let them lay out for a few days in the shade to cure and then store in a cool dry place. We use the crisper drawer of a spare basement fridge. This year we planted roughly 100 seed potatoes and each plant will produce 8-12 potatoes.

Pure magic, thank you garden!