Grow a Row at South Benton Food Pantry

08/27/2025

Have you ever harvested tomato seeds for next year's crop? They are getting so expensive, I found this article you might like.

07/25/2025

Are your plants drooping after a hot day? Here are some ideas for avoiding it from the OSU Extension. SSouth Benton Food Pantry KKepi Nak-Nak Commons

When a heatwave hits, plants may show the impact. Learn the signs of heat stress in plants and how to help them weather a heatwave with best practices for watering, mulching, shading, providing humidity and weeding.

07/19/2025

If you want to start planting for fall harvest, here's an article about starting beets in July. South Benton Food Pantry

Beets are tasty and easy to grow, and both the roots and leaves can be used in cooking. Plant in early spring, as soon as soil can be worked.

07/08/2025

Look at the garden bed South Benton Food Pantry ! It’s already producing squash! If anyone wants to volunteer to help with watering and harvesting, contact us here or at the pantry.
Don’t forget to bring your harvest to the pantry. Tuesday and Thursday between 9am-10am.

06/28/2025

It’s here!!! Our first ripe tomato! Sun-gold…our favorite! Get ready!!! Tomatoes are coming!
South Benton Food Pantry

06/26/2025

How amazing that our gardens can be so rewarding, even when they're not bursting with abundance?!?! Abundance is indeed abundance. Walla walla onions still coming. Handful of kale today and some duck eggs. Definitely have dark sweet cherries next week. Might even be some zucchini! What's bringing you wonder in your garden these days. I found a newt! South Benton Food Pantry

06/24/2025

HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE!!! Coming to the food pantry today… walla walla spring onions, chard and kale, and buckets of Queen Anne cherries.
What’s ready in your garden? Anyone close on a ripe tomato? I have one that is definitely in contention!
South Benton Food Pantry

06/18/2025

We need help planting and maintaining the garden beds behind the South Benton Food Pantry - anyone able to help? We have great soil, lots of plants, just need someone to step up and grow some veggies!

06/14/2025

Round 2
Two truck loads of starts! Including flowers. Tomatoes, squashes, cukes, geraniums, and more. Thanks so much to DaytonFFAchapter & Flicker & Fir for the starts. Bringing abundance to South Benton Food Pantry

06/13/2025

On the Oregon State campus in Corvallis, Al Shay, a horticulture instructor at OSU, has led a campaign to show how to be kind to bees. He and his students build pollinator houses and plant accompanying gardens. They’ve installed them, not only on campus, but around town at the Corvallis Fire Department downtown, the Methodist Church and Sunset Park.

Shay hopes to have 20 more pollinator houses placed in public locations by next year, some accompanied by gardens.

“As we become more urbanized, it makes sense to provide habitat for pollinators,” he said. “We’re trying to get the word out and tell people to do the same things in their own backyards.”

About 500 -- perhaps more -- native bees make Oregon their home. Gardens are important habitat for these important pollinators.

06/13/2025

Anyone want to go together and see the gardens?

The OSU Extension Benton County Master Gardeners have created two beautiful landscape areas at the Benton County Fairgrounds entrance: A Xeriscape garden and A Pollinator Garden. These two gardens compliment their existing Demonstration Garden and we hope that they can serve as inspiration for your own home landscape. They are located by the south entrance to the Fairgrounds, 110 SW 53rd St. in Corvallis. Kepi Nak-Nak Commons

https://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/linn-benton/visit-our-demonstration-gardens

06/12/2025

Who's going to grow the first ripe tomato? Comment with a photo when you have one. Here's a photo from some of last year's crop.