Finally! It looks like we might actually have a growing season here on the coast. It is short in any year, so it's is a bit of a challenge for us this year. The common advice is that the optimum time for planting vegetables is by mid June. Well, I plant all summer, especially things like lettuce and re-planting of chard, spinach and other cold weather varieties, if you want them to over-winter. The coast weather is conducive to being a little more creative.
You can plant berries now....strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black and boysenberries. Our good gardener friend John Yager tells us that silverberries are great producers and can be bought at a nursery in Molalla. Contact John via the phone book. He is also researching other varieties of edible berries and plants. My personal favorite to pursue is Seaberry. Like tiny oranges, they are very high in vitamin C and can be used for jams and jellies.
Clean Your Vegetables
What a scare! Germany is experiencing a deadly E.coli and many have died. We've had our scares here, but the one in Europe is really serious. If you are at all worried about the possibility of that happening here, an effective and low tech way of killing E.coli is to wash your vegetables in salt water. The organisms absorb the salt and burst their cell membranes, killing them. Don't let agri-business scare you away from your own home-grown veggies or store bought organics, by claiming that E.coli is a greater danger. They definitely have the same problems. Common sense and, wash those veggies!
You can plant berries now....strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black and boysenberries. Our good gardener friend John Yager tells us that silverberries are great producers and can be bought at a nursery in Molalla. Contact John via the phone book. He is also researching other varieties of edible berries and plants. My personal favorite to pursue is Seaberry. Like tiny oranges, they are very high in vitamin C and can be used for jams and jellies.
Clean Your Vegetables
What a scare! Germany is experiencing a deadly E.coli and many have died. We've had our scares here, but the one in Europe is really serious. If you are at all worried about the possibility of that happening here, an effective and low tech way of killing E.coli is to wash your vegetables in salt water. The organisms absorb the salt and burst their cell membranes, killing them. Don't let agri-business scare you away from your own home-grown veggies or store bought organics, by claiming that E.coli is a greater danger. They definitely have the same problems. Common sense and, wash those veggies!
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