RE: Best place to Garden
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- Subject: RE: Best place to Garden
- From: P*@orst.edu
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:36:47 -0700
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I live in the southern Willamette valley. It is a semi-Mediterranean climate
with mild, wet winters and relatively dry mild summers. We garden year
round. You do have to adapt to many cloudy days (basically the entire winter
from about November to May/June. The soils vary, many being clay dominated,
so most of us use raised beds, but get great yields.
The Willamette valley runs from about Cottage Grove in the south to
Portland, OR in the North.
Southern Oregon has hot summers and cooler winters than we and has largely
volcanic based soils. Water may be a problem there.
On the other side of the Cascades in the Bend-Redmond area the weather is
decidedly cooler (high desert) and hotter, but the sun shines almost year
round. The soils tend to be volcanic and alkaline.
Lots of choices.
Pat in OR
If it has 2 ends, spin it. Gardening feeds the soul.
