Updates from the OSU Extension Lane County Master Gardener Demonstration Gardens
The Adaptive Garden at the OSU Extension Lane County office is looking great right now. Come check out this showcase of ideas to “Garden Smarter, Not Harder!”
My favorite item in the Adaptive Garden right now is the pulley system to easily raise & lower heavy hanging baskets.
What do you like best?
It’s almost spring in the OSU Extension Lane County Master Gardener Demonstration Gardens!
We have our first work party scheduled for this Thursday to “wake up” the garden and are planning a growing season filled with great tours & hands-on classes. Checking back here or our main Extension webpage for updates. 
Come out and visit the garden this Saturday from 10-11am. The Adaptive Garden Specialists will be on hand to answer all of your gardening questions. Things are blooming and looking just wonderful!
Greg with the Adaptive Garden Specialists hamming it up and showing off the raised bed he built.
The pollinator patch is blooming and attracting many insect species. Check out all the different kinds of sunflowers!
The Adaptive Garden committee has been hard at work updating signage in their garden area. Check out this list of features!
Beautiful kohlrabi growing!
Did you know that the OSU Extension Lane County Master Gardeners
have expertise in adaptive gardening?
Not familiar with adaptive gardening? Adaptive gardening is adapting tools and techniques commonly used in gardening to fit the needs of people of various levels of physical ability. Gardening adaptations can be used for the elderly, the wheelchair bound, or for people with a limited range of motion. Anyone wanting to reduce stress on joints while gardening is a potential adaptive gardener.
Here is one example from their beautiful demonstration garden at the office: A vertical strawberry tower!
Created from clay pots and recycled bamboo stakes for support (threaded through the drainage hole in the pots). This structure stands about 2.5 foot high. The top tier is a trailing variety called Albion, the midlevel is Tristar (an everbearing variety) , and Seascape (also everbearing) is in the base pot. Can’t wait for the fruit-yum!
Front view
Side view of the tower
Want more tips on growing great strawberries? Visit our publication catalog!