November is a month to look back to this year’s garden harvest and give thanks that so many things went well.
The weather cooperated this year so the vegetables grew abundantly. Your millions of soil workers (micro-organisms) were busy underground supplying food to your vegetables’ roots. If you were lucky, not too many critters decided that your garden was their supermarket!
November is also a month to start planning what you
want to do differently next year. Your vegetables need lots of different kind of pollinators to visit your garden through the season – bees, butterflies, even wasps. Have you considered adding native flowers to attract native beesto your garden? They love to pollinate your vegetable flowers as well as native flowers.
Now is the time to plant the natives that they love so that the rains will naturally water the seeds in. Consider planting the following: Globe Gillia, Common Madia, Douglas’ Aster, California Poppy, Goldenrod, Varied-Leaf Phacelia, and Farewell-to-Spring. You can also plant them in early spring, but why wait?
Share your Harvest
(list continued
from last month)
Philomath Food Bank
360 S. 9th St., Philomathhttp://www.philomathcommunityservices.org
541-929-2499 ext. 4
Philomath Community Gleaners
360 S. 9th St., Philomath http://www.philomathcommunityservices.org/outreach-programs/gleaners/
541-929-2499
St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry
501 NW 25th St., Corvallis. Call ahead to donate 541-286-4193, please leave message
South Corvallis Food Bank
1798 SW 3rd Street (behind Corvallis Furniture)
541-753-4263
Stone Soup Corvallis
Weekdays, drop off at St. Mary’s Church
501 NW 25th St.
Weekends, drop off at First Christian Church,
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