Gardening and Pacific NW Flora
Stinging nettles Urtica dioicaFor now, in this Tadpole Edition, this page and the calendar mainly cover edible gardening information originally posted on Fresh-Picked Seattle. I will be adding more information about general Pacific Northwest flora soon.
Seattle-Area Gardening Blogs
See the food blog feed in the right-hand column for a feed of these blogs and some from the Gardening Consultants listed in the below section.
- The Shibaguyz blog about gardening, locavore cooking/eating and crafts.
- Willi Galloway, the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine & KUOW Weekday Gardening contributor, blogs at Diggin Food.
- Greenwalks "is a blog about parking strip gardens."
Gardening Consultants
If you'd like more help with your yard, here are some local edible gardening consultants.
- Garden Mentors (Twitter)
- Go Go Green Garden (Twitter)
- Cascadian Edible Landscapes
- Green Light Gardening
- Mariposa Naturescapes
- Urban Land Army
- In Everett: Innovative Landscape Technologies
Other Resources
- Seattle Tilth has classes, events and tons of resources, including the Garden Hotline, Mon-Sat 9am-5pm.
- King County Extension Gardening also has many resources and "Dial Extension, [which] gives the public 24-hour-a-day telephone access to an audio library with reliable information on a large range of topics related to gardening, pest management, and the environment." 206-296-3425
- Are you a gardener without a plot? Or a homeowner without time to garden? Check out the Urban Gardenshare.
- KUOW's Weekday program often features garden talk (often with Willi Galloway from the DigginFood blog above.
- The Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle has resources on its site and in 2009, put on an Edible Gardening Fair.
- Stewardship Partners is offering free rain garden classes in Spring 2010.
- 21 Acres offers many educational opportunities related to gardening and farming.
- Also check out the University of Washington's Botanic Garden department, including the Center for Urban Horticulture for many gardening and native plants events.
- In addition to the consulting services offered above, the Urban Land Army has a lot of information and resources on their site.
- Washington Native Plant Society
- Follow my Gardening list on Twitter. It's short for now but I will add to it.
This is a very nicely-done video of the stage one of the transformation of a NE Seattle lawn into an edible gardening