Plants have arrived!

[Ana Inclan]

Hey Neighbors!

Good news is: we have some great plants for our planter strips along Gladstone Street!  Bad news is: there's very few of them; so we'll need to procure more plants... please reply to the group if you have extra plant starts to share.

 

If anyone has a planter strip that could "host" the following, please let me know your top choice (probably only enough for us each to host 1 or 2):

 

From City Repair:

Blueberry - full sun and acid soil http://www.rockypointblueberries.com/page6/page6.html

Cranberry - full sun http://www.oregoncranberry.net/growing_cranberry.htm

Elderberry - full sun and acid soil (not drought tolarant) http://www.elderberries.com/

Currant - partial to full sun http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1995/3-17-1995/curr.html

Gooseberry - partial to full sun http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1995/3-17-1995/curr.html

Fig tree - partial to full sun

Kiwi vines - full sun, male and female should be at least 6ft apart; and they need something to climb (phone booth?)

 

From my yard, I can share a few of the following:

Strawberry - full sun

Lambs ear - full sun

Lemon balm - anywhere but it's like mint in that it can be difficult to control; could work great in the planter strips as they won't need watering, etc. and smell good and edible, etc. but will need to be sure to pick the flowers to prevent it from going to seed and taking over the neighborhood!

 

Been so much fun working with you all!!

 

Cheers,

Ana

[N P]

I am definitely down with the elderberry.....I will gladly take what ever can fill our spots....I am hoping to put in one or two small boxes with mortar  and some smaller bloks and whatever else we can fit.  I do have those sunflower starts that need to be planted asap

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:16:34 -0700
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[N P]

Oh, I would also love strawberry and lamb ear. I will fwd this to my neighbors and see if they have any input

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[sarah gilbert]

Ana, we have plants to share. we have several little figs (at least 2-3) that could be transplanted, and a currant whose home is too shaded to produce berries and would very much like a new place to live. we also have a wealth of raspberry bushes and could share a few. ooh, and i discovered a bunch of little grape vines growing in the back yard; I'd part with 5-6 of them. they're very healthy, tho small.

if you don't have anyone who wants the gooseberry or kiwi, I'd happily make homes for them in my front yard :)

we have tons of lemon balm, spearmint, chocolate mint, chives, euphorbia, parsley, calendula and borage that are growing rowdily wild if you need stuff to fill in spaces. oh, and the LOVAGE. my goodness. all of these will, if left to their own devices, either re-seed or sucker out to take over whatever space they've got. they're mostly quite beautiful (the lemon balm is not for everyone tho) but they act like weeds. we have st. john's wort, too, which is a medicinal herb -- but it's invasive so you're technically not supposed to plant it.

I'm sure there are other things we could share, too. anyone who wants to come by let me know and I'll get my trowel ready!

oh -- i also have collected calendula and sunflower seeds, if you want to plant from seed.

sarah gilbert
phone 503.774.5934
4211 se 39th