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Re: Beginning Gardening

>My wife and I just bought our first house and would like to start a
>garden.  Is it too late to plant anything now?  We live in Southern
>Oregon, zone 8 I believe.  If there is nothing we can plant now is
there >anything that we can do to get the garden ready for next year?
 Our soil >is black clay and we get plenty of sunlight where our new
garden would >be.  Thanks for the help.  Happy Harvesting!

It's just on the edge of too late for the "summer" garden, but not at
all too late for the autumn and winter garden.

Summer crops: You could probably get in some bush beans, put some
flower seedlings in the ground. Around here (California) it's not too
late for early varieties of corn, but I expect that you may be _just_
too far north for that.

Fall and winter crops: Cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, onions,
garlic,  leeks, carrots, lettuce, mustard, other salad greens, fava
beans, potato onions, shallots, potatoes... there's _lots_ of things
you could get in. Some of them will need to be in and out before you
have a frost, others, like the garlic and potato onions and some
others, can live through that frost and are actually supposed to be
grown through the winter, in a mild climate like yours. Fall's a good
time to put in some perennial herbs, cane berries, things like that,
I think. Radishes. Onion sets. Onion plants. (Yes, I like onions; why
do you ask?) Flower bulbs, though they won't do anything fun until
spring. Um...oh, lots and lots of things. You can get a lot of the
onion'y and potato'y things from the Ronniger's catalog, if you
don't find them close to home. I have the address...oh, somewhere, if
you need it.

Other stuff: This might be a good opportunity to get in a cover crop
planted now, to plow/dig in in spring.

Martha

(Who got her summer garden in too late (It's El Nino's fault! It's El
Nino's fault!) and is therefore overplanning her fall garden.)


M. Wilson
mart@best.com


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