Crossroads P Patch Community Garden

The garden’s gone better this year than I could have imagined. I’ve made some new friends, we’ve enjoyed looking out for one another, and I harvested over $ 200 worth of gorgeous produce from my $ 60/​year patch — and I have probably another $ 200 worth still in the ground (beets, carrots, onions, flowers, Chinese broccoli, celery, rutabegas, parsnips… the fun never ends!) And I still need to see if our popcorn will get big enough to eat… and I really really need to brave the rain to plant some lettuce! The early summer lettuce we enjoyed was so fantastic, the sweetest lettuce I’ve ever eaten.
The Crossroads P-​patch garden was featured in the Bellevue City cable channel’s October edition of «It’s Your City». To view our segment (and to see me in my pink shirt and lots of shots of my garden!) go here:
You can click the segment link on the right side to skip the Bellevue bicycling program review if that bores you to tears. :-)
I will definitely be renewing my patch membership next year… as the first gardener to register, how could I do otherwise?
Kudos to Ron Sher for having this lovely idea and for making it happen, spending a lot of money to make a delightful community resource available. He is an amazing guy and Bellevue is lucky indeed that he is so invested in the Crossroads neighborhood (he is the head of Metrovation, the company that owns Crossroads Mall). It’s been a pleasure to get to know him a little bit as he tended the artichokes, tomatoes, and sunflowers in his plot.