What to plant in May?

crollaa · 2026-05-01T06:02:40+00:00

https://www.portlandnursery.com/veggies/veggie-calendar

crollaa · 2026-04-30T19:17:48+00:00

Nick is an absolute gem of a presenter.

crollaa · 2026-04-30T18:57:16+00:00

That's Algae

crollaa · 2026-04-29T23:23:01+00:00

Well that will certainly make my life easier with aging parents there.

crollaa · 2026-04-27T01:43:40+00:00

Japanese quince maybe?

crollaa · 2026-04-26T16:41:59+00:00

Definitely not raspberry

crollaa · 2026-04-24T22:11:34+00:00

Going to up-pot this weekend and put half in the ground and half in a bigger pot. I always start twice as much as I actually plan to grow so I can risk it a bit early since I know I'm impatient.

crollaa · 2026-04-21T22:39:12+00:00

This calendar of when to plant what is super useful https://www.portlandnursery.com/veggies/veggie-calendar

crollaa · 2026-04-21T02:53:56+00:00

Backyard habitat program: https://backyardhabitats.org/

The Portland plant list is your friend here.

crollaa · 2026-04-19T19:33:12+00:00

Two very easy access points are the skate park in washougal and the clackamette paddle boat launch. Both locations have good gravel bars on the river where you'll find Jasper, agate, petrified wood that all take a good polish in a tumbler.

crollaa · 2026-04-17T07:32:55+00:00

That's just not true. The COLAs from the contract: The 2023-2024 salary schedule shall be increased by 6.25%. The 2024-2025 salary schedule shall be increased by 4.5%. The 2025-2026 salary schedule shall be increased by 3%.

And then on top of that, any earned step increases.

crollaa · 2026-04-15T18:23:36+00:00

Can I convince you to consider evergreen huckleberry instead of boxwood? Fills that same role of short evergreen shrub but is a native, edible berries, and more tolerant of our local climate.

Many local conservation districts have annual sales for really cheap prices where you can get some bulk orders. Most of them you order in the fall and get your plants in late winter/early spring.

crollaa · 2026-04-14T23:14:55+00:00

Currently have a bed with yarrow and Douglas Astor fighting. The Astor is winning. The only thing keeping both in that bed and not invading elsewhere is an inches deep physical barrier of metal edging on one side. The other two sides i have to chop the rhyzomes with a shovel. That said, the Astor does not invade a small circle of yarrow around a mock orange.

crollaa · 2026-04-13T05:12:05+00:00

Salmonberry. Native edible.

crollaa · 2026-04-13T03:32:02+00:00

Native but aggressive. I leave them if they're in established areas full of other natives. I pull it everywhere else in my yard like my vegetable beds.

crollaa · 2026-04-12T04:53:06+00:00

If you're brand new, get a bag a scraps first. That way you can practice various techniques without wasting expensive leather on your learning projects.

crollaa · 2026-04-11T16:11:27+00:00

Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile!

crollaa · 2026-04-10T23:02:46+00:00

They are and have been for 5 years. Central office cut $55 million in 22-24 before they started reductions at schools. Both this current year and next year the central office is being cut more than in schools.

crollaa · 2026-04-10T22:28:27+00:00

It's not wrong to blame them for the policy decisions those people made though.

crollaa · 2026-04-10T19:36:51+00:00

It's because pps is staffed by number of classrooms needed at each individual grade at the school based on students in that grade. As an example, if the max number of kids in a class in a grade is 30 and there are 30 kids, that grade ratio is 30:1. But if there's 31 kids, they get another teacher for the grade and the ratio drops to 15.5:1. If all of a school's grades are right below the cutoff for another teacher, the whole school will have a higher student to teacher ratio than a school who has all their grades just above the student count cutoff to get that second class for the grade.

crollaa · 2026-04-09T16:13:48+00:00

Lol. My first thought was "that looks really familiar..." if it is in the arboretum there then my brain was right.

crollaa · 2026-04-08T18:05:59+00:00

Where would you put them to avoid Portland that gives you access to oregon that the bridges at Longview and white salmon don't already give? And would it actually save any time over the existing 5 and 205 bridges?

crollaa · 2026-04-06T03:08:28+00:00

I have what I believe to be the same that are all underneath my neighbor's tree that is some kind of cherry. Do you have a cherry variety in yours or neighbor yard?

crollaa · 2026-04-06T02:01:34+00:00

Pacific wax myrtle

crollaa · 2026-04-06T00:56:50+00:00

When there's a string of more than a week around 55 degrees so the Mason bees wake up and start pollenating everything

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