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Planting Guide
his year’s planting guide gives you guidance for
when to plant starts outside in the Willamette
The fi rst column gives information on when to start
plants indoors before then planting outside. If you are
already gardening — or eating produce — then we hope
you know what a ripe vegetable looks like. But for root
vegetables that hide beneath the dirt, such as potatoes
and carrots, look for crowning in the soil for indication of
eb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
It might be cold and wet outside, but it’s still time to
Till your cover crop into your soil, add compost, map out
your coming garden and build beds. Take into account
watering and drainage, note that limiting the width of
your bed to 4 feet makes the center easy to reach, and
think about companion planting (putting plants that ben-
efi t one another near each other) and fi nally, of course,
Plant
Outdoors
2024
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