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Welcome to the University Heights P-Patch Community Garden database. All the information you will find here is based on the experiences, tales, victories, and defeats of UH gardeners.
The results for the Innovative Water Conservation Ideas have been tabulated. The winners for this category are as follows:
1st Place: University Heights ($100 gift certificate to Greenwood Hardware)
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2nd Place: Hazel Heights (Garden tool variety pack)
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3rd Place: Picardo (NW Maritime Gardening Guide)
Thank you Linda and to our signs creator, I think it was Gary Irvin (I will change as soon as I find out)?
Thank you to every one who watered with the Cisterns and conserved water this year! I'm so proud :)
Just in time for your Winter garden list!
With Terry Underhill & Frances Donovan (of BBC garden fame!)
DVD check it out from the Seattle Library or buy it.
Hear fantastic stories of how and where our garden favorites grow along with the fasinating stories on how they were discovered, and how they are used around the world.
Organic Food from Small Spaces
By Gayla Trail
This is an amazing book! Gayla is teaching us how to grow using what most families have access to. No fancy, and very expensive, tools; no gardening experience necessary. Then after the harvest there are recipes! Full of large, colorful photos and very easy instructions. A must have book! or check it out from the Seattle Library.
Gardeners on the Go! Twenty terrific tours around Puget Sound & Seattle (1998)
By Stephanie Feeney
Yes the Seattle Library has this!
And remember a permanent list of materials is always available on our Book page.
(You can also reach this tip from our Tips page)
I have been lurking on other community garden blogs picking up tips to try out. The latest I have tested is>>>>
Unlike backyard gardens community gardeners cannot always make it to their Patch before breakfast. We are also safe from deer, and other wild critters but we have humans passing by that can cause the same amount of damage. I have noticed the growing practise of harvesting early. I make it to my Patch every 3 days or so so produce that looks like it will be ripe in a day or two I harvest. So far this has worked on salad greens, Tomatoes (Yes check your plants!), and strawberries. Squash is harder to discover the line between large enough to be harvested before it is noticed and added to the missing list. So don't be shy about plucking that just-turned-red tomato if you won't make it back for a few days.
Cages vs Cloches: 2011 The cloches won! Even after burying the cages an inch below the surface the bugs still came for breakfast, and did not stop our larger 2-legged visitors. The water bottle cloches excelled in both (just don't forget to water even when it rains!). Last year I lost my Broccoli this year I every seedling planted is strong and promises all the broccoli my son loves to eat.
March 20, 2011 work party photos!
University Heights P-Patch is located in one of Seattle's most diverse urban areas, the University District. Our plots border University Way and just to the right of the entrance to the University Heights Community Center. Along with family and individual gardener's there are three elementary schools, The U District food bank, and Seattle Youth Garden Works that work plots.
The Patch's highlight is a unique rain water recycling system built by gardeners, the University of Washington Landscape Architect, Industrial Design, and Art students in 2002. These two large cisterns collect rain water that is then used by the gardener's throughout spring and early summer (or entire summers in some wet years) instead of using city water.
One of the purposes of this site is to capture the knowledge, media, and stories before they are lost. The other purpose is to create a reference center focused on the UH P-Patch's unique soil, climate, and visitors. If you cannot find the help you need contact me at hafocz -at- gmail.com. If you would love to join us or get a patch in your neighborhood check out the P-Patch Community Garden's home