Gardens For Rent

Fall and winter gardening starts NOW! We have 4 open plots at the garden, all ready for planting fall veggie starts and garlic. We garden year round, and if you join us now you will get the last few months of 2015 for free when you pay for 2016.

The Campbell Community Garden in December 2012

Go to our Rent a Garden tab to sign up!

Two Garden Plots for Rent!

Do you want to grow your own food in Milwaukie, but don't have the space or sun at home? We have both at the the Campbell Community Garden! We have one medium garden and one large garden open for 2015. Sign up on our "rent a garden" page.

No experience necessary, a community garden is a great place to learn!

Root vegetables harvested at the CCG on May 20, 2015

Clackamas County Master Gardener's Garden Discovery Day

Garden Discovery Day

March 7, 9 am – noon

Milwaukie Center, 5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr., Milwaukie

10-Minute University Classes (25 minutes each)

	Room A	Room B
9	Lawn Care	Starting a Vegetable Garden
9:30	Mason Bees	Slugs & Snails
10	Attracting Pollinators	Containers
10:30	Bugs	Raised Bed
11	Early-Season Vegetables	Weeds
11:30	Blueberries	Pruning

Displays (9 am - noon)

• Managing Moles
• Managing Gophers
• Gardening with Compost and Mulch
• Vegetable Gardening
• Sheet Mulching
• Bugs

Soil Testing (9 – 11:30 am)

We will test soil pH and give advice on amendments.

Up to 4 samples per client.

For step-by-step instructions, obtain a “Testing Soil pH” handout 

Clinic (9 am - noon)

Master Gardeners are available to answer gardening questions during this event.

Master Gardeners are trained volunteers, educated through OSU Extension Service to offer the local community Reliable, Relevant and Reachable gardening information.

For more information, visit the Clackamas County Master Gardeners website.

Campbell Community Garden

Campbell Garden Update

2014 was a great year for The Campbell Community Garden. We had several new gardening families join us and we grew a lot of delicious food.

Harvest Sharing Garden donation, early October 2014

In 2014 we donated 1,600 pounds of produce to Esther's Pantry! Campbell Garden families generously donated their excess harvest and volunteers helped tend our 4 plots set aside for our Harvest Sharing Program. We are especially thankful to Hansen Family Farm who again sponsored the tomato bed in our Harvest Sharing Garden;  their tomato plants grew exceptionally well producing 426 pounds of fruit for donation!

Seeds from Renee's Garden. #thanksfortheseeds

In late 2013 we received a huge assortment of Renee's Garden seeds. We grew these through 2014 (donating many, many pounds of harvest from them) and were able to experiment and see which types and varieties were best suited to our gardens. A few stand outs include Sea of Red lettuce, Crimson Crunch & Pink Punch radish, Sunshine Mix carrots, and Spanish Musica beans.  We are delighted that Renee's Garden has decided to sponsor our garden again in 2015 with the donation of another huge box of seeds. Our volunteers think we should track our donations by measuring cubic feet rather then pounds...one packet of seeds from Renee's garden will produce several boxes of fresh greens!

Mustard grown from seeds from Renee's Garden, harvested in early January, 2015

The 2015 season has started. We made our fist donation to Esther's Pantry last week: 7 pounds of assorted greens and a few radish. Although we did not meet our goal of donating 2,000 pounds in 2014, we are setting the same goal for 2015, so we have only 1,993 pounds to go!

First harvest for our 2015 donations!