These easy-to-master techniques were gleaned from over a decade of experience growing my own food from zone 10a to zone 6b. (Though anyone who lives in Central Oregon knows we have some crazy microclimates here, making me more like zone 4!) ...
Ft. Hall of the Oregon Trail fame. We never made it, did you? From Ft. Hall he intended to cross the Sierra Nevadas and wander into California. But this dream was shattered for the lack of a competent guide. So he ventured back along the banks of the Arkansas River to the Missouri...
The first time was when I was visiting family in Oregon; we got an overhead view of Mount Hood from the plane as we entered the Portland Airport and then an up close view as we drove down Hwy 26 from Portland, OR to Bend, OR. If you are fortunate enough to live within view of ...
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November." - Rose G. Kingsley,The Autumn Garde...
Oregon State University May Tips Earth Wise Creations May Tips - Zone 9 Top Garden Projects for May in the Pacific Northwest by Ed Hume The Gay Gardener - May 52 Weeks in the California Garden by Richard Smaus The Garden Helper Tips for May - Northern U.S. Gardening Tips - May - Zon...
Master Gardener Series: Vegetable Gardening (Oregon State University) Gardening Blogs and Websites Find extensive tips from other gardening sources below. Gardening Know How Gardenista Garden Therapy The Spruce You Grow Girl Sources A Compilation of Energy Costs of Physical Activities, PubMed Central ...
The silent rain-drops bend the long rank grass Which wraps some blossom's unmaturéd birth." - Charles Lloyd,To Autumn "I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadow less like silence, listening To silence." - Thomas Hood,Ode: Autumn, 1827 ...
Breathe, till o'er drowsed the heavy flower-heads bend. Now sleep the crystal and heart-charmed waves Round white, sunstricken rocks the noontide long, Or 'mid the coolness of dim lighted caves Sway in a trance of vague deliciousness; ...