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You don’t have to be named Michael or have a partner named Michael to engineer a cover for your raised bed garden. After visiting the Bend Urban Gardens Demonstration Garden and checking out our prototypes, these gardeners were inspired to create covers of their own to fit their unique spaces.
Grete and Rob (with their dog, Bear), renters in east Bend, embarked on their first season of gardening in the high desert with help from Bend Urban Gardens.
Greg and his family had grown vegetables in San Diego and Las Vegas before moving to Bend and inheriting an existing raised garden bed at their new west Bend home.
After growing veggies in-ground on her property, Sunny reached out to BUG to help set her up for more success. She used her bank of garden lesson hours for periodic check-ins throughout the growing season to keep herself on track to meeting her gardening goals!
After engaging in a farm storyline unit at school, Fischer and Reid were eager to grow food themselves. Fortunately, their parents thought it’d be a great idea!
After some years of success growing mostly leafy greens in a very accessible, but partially shaded area of her yard, Christine decided to expand her 2021 garden to benefit from more sunshine and expand her family’s at-home food production.
Talitha, the Social Director at Whispering Winds Retirement Community on the eastside of Bend, knew very little about growing plants back in the spring of 2021, but was determined to revitalize the existing on-site garden to create a place for outdoor socializing and activities.
Veronica and Kevin eased into gardening by growing strawberries and herbs in containers. After about a year of living in their historic westside Bend home and working remotely, they decided it was time to transform their south facing front yard into a vegetable garden.
15 year old James had done a lot of research on his own about how to grow edible plants, but due to many complications, was never able to put it into practice. Starting in April, consistent (almost) weekly check-ins with Bend Urban Gardens helped him gain more confidence, and he’s supplemented family meals all season long!
Jill, a long time Kindergarten teacher in Bend, wanted a garden for many years, but it never fit into her life plan until September 2020. Now she says, “My backyard has become a place of contentment and, literally, growth! I had no idea how to put in drip systems, combat root maggots, find aphids, sow seeds, transplant or fertilize. Actually, I had no idea how to garden or grow anything to eat. Now I do.”
What veggies can I plant into my Central Oregon garden in early - mid-July?
What veggies can I plant into my Central Oregon garden in early - mid-July?
Should I prioritize planting spinach in my garden?
Should I prioritize planting spinach in my garden?
What should I do to get ready for spring veggie gardening?
How should I get my garden ready for spring?
Should I install hardware cloth on the bottom of my raised beds?
Should I line my raised garden beds with hardware cloth?
When do I install pathway material in my raised bed garden?
When do I install the pathway material in my garden?
How do you use your greenhouse to extend the growing season?
We love our greenhouse! It’s not only an amazing place to chill in our hammock swing on a sunny fall, winter or spring day, but we harvest food from it all year long without using any supplemental heat! We purchased plans for a climate battery from Ceres after reading The Year Round Solar Greenhouse. Then, we worked with Branch Brothers Construction to bring it to life!
Which type of cover(s) for frost and pest protection are right for my raised garden beds?
Which season extension and pest protection tools are right for your garden?
What are these mosquito looking gnats flying around my plants?
The good news is that fungus gnat adults don’t typically harm your plants, but are just really annoying. However, they can carry fungal diseases and their larvae can drain plant roots of their nutrients. We have been fortunate to avoid fungus gnat infestations by practicing good pest and disease prevention. But, recently we had to intervene…
What edible plants do well in the shade?
While most popular garden veggies need at least 6 hours of sun to thrive and give you a meaningful harvest, there are edible plants that are adapted to shade, too!
Where should I get seeds for my veggie garden?
Where should I get seeds for my veggie garden?
How early can we plant vegetables in Bend?
Have you heard to wait to plant your garden until the snow is melted from the top of Black Butte? In our experience, this is not entirely accurate.