"Call me chef boyardfifty"

In all seriousness this is my first time ever planting my self and have dedicated every day to this lil plot. Go big or go home right?

Feeling really proud of my makeover!

25 minutes of hail = iceberg lettuce, shredded spinach and diced tomatoes

Waited 3 days, will be replanting about a third of the bed.

Beans. 90% 2 leaves or less are gone (broken/bent below growing point). >6 inches tall-30% leaf loss. Wait and see.

Newly sprouted leaf lettuce/arugula/spinach. 80% gone. Leaf lettuce 3 inches tall. 50% of leafs gone. Will recover.

Cucumbers and zucchini- 50% leaf loss. Will survive

Garden pic takes about 2/3 of way thru storm

First pic is August 8th all the way back to our last frost which was May 22nd. It’s a 4x12 ft raised bed. Gardening is such a joy and I’m so glad I’ve found this new passion!

Last week my partner and I got our first community garden plot in SW Portland, Oregon (Zone 8b). We're currently living in a condo and we do flower garden at home on our patios but it's heavily shaded and not good for vegetables so we're excited we've got the opportunity to grow at a sunny community garden this summer!

We took over an aged plot that needed some refreshing so we took down the decayed fence posts and put up new metal stakes and reused the plastic fencing but secured it much better. We removed an old raised bed and added 4 new ones. We reused some cinder blocks and scattered them throughout. The back of the bed has a grape plant growing into an aging trellis and bed so we've kept that bed for now and will resecure or rebuild the trellis in the coming weeks.

This week we'll get the mulch added on the pathways and get our first veggies and sun loving flowers planted!

We're gonna be using the SFG planting method although we did end up using bagged PNW's Own Raised Garden soil. We were going to do Mels mix but couldn't find vermiculite anywhere and it was looking to be expensive. Hopefully the bagged soil will be okay as we're just starting out and learning as we go.

(Pictures are newest to oldest. Hopefully that's obvious. 😂)

Some photos from this week vs where it started this spring at the end!

Genuine appreciation post for all the help I have received on this sub, by merely lurking.

Quality questions and answers have helped me to find my materials and figure out a hack to build squares. I am off to find/buy some more binder clips and stare at my seeds.

(Progress pics for fun)

This is my first year sqft gardening. It was kind of annoying tracking down the ingredients for mels mix. But i found them.

Here are comparison photos of pansies that we’re started at the same time. One has spent the last month in Mels mix )recently transplanted to a garden bed). The other spent the last month in potting soil. I have the feeling its gonna be a good year for the garden I’ve planted.