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Many can survive in west-
ern Oregon in a protected spot,
Edmunds said. Those bought
in hanging baskets are usually
more tender. If you still have the
label, check that for information.
Or, if you’re not too attached, an
experiment might be in order.
Leave the plant out this year, see
what happens and keep a record.
If it dies, switch to a hardier va-
riety next year that will survive
outside.
To keep fuchsias safe from too-
cold temperatures, move hanging
baskets or pots into a cool spot
between 40 to 50 degrees. A cold
frame or cool greenhouse will
work, and, since fuchsias don’t
need as much light as geraniums,
a garage or shed will accommo-
date them. A cool room in the
house is fi ne, too. They’ll want
more water than geraniums, so
check often to make sure the soil
is moist, but not soggy. Pruning
isn’t necessary, but will allow
plants to be stored closer togeth-
er. Don’t over prune and cut off
all the green wood, however.
“Lots of people treat fuchsias
and geraniums like annuals and
don’t go through the trouble of
bringing them inside,” Edmunds
said. “But if you want to baby
them a bit, they’ll come back to
life in spring.”
Many people dig up dahlias
in fall, more because of rot than
cold, Edmunds said. Before dig-
ging, cut plant down to soil level.
Be sure to use the shovel care-
fully as nicks and scratches will
cause them to dry out faster. Wait
until spring to separate tubers.
Store clumps of dahlia tubers in
a dry, dim spot in a cardboard
box with plenty of air circulation.
Check periodically and remove
any tubers showing rot.
In spring, fuchsias and gera-
niums should be trimmed back,
fertilized and moved back out-
side. Plant dahlia tubers when all
threat of frost is over and soil has
warmed up to about 60 degrees
(use a soil thermometer available
at garden stores to check), usual-
ly from mid-April through May.
Taking cuttings is another op-
tion for overwintering gerani-
ums, Edmunds said. The process
isn’t as daunting as some people
think. Simply cut a 4- to 5-inch
portion of stem with a couple
of growth buds, which look like
tufts of very small leaves. Also,
leave a couple of large leaves.
Fill small pots or a seed fl at
with a light potting or seed mix.
Remove lower leaves from the
cutting. Dip stem into a rooting
hormone if desired and stick into
the mixture with at least one bud
above the soil. Keep evenly moist
but do not overwater. Cover with
plastic, but don’t let it touch the
cuttings. Keep part of the plastic
open to encourage air circulation.
As the roots start to grow, usually
within eight weeks, transplant
gradually into larger pots.
part of the river’s food chain,”
she said. Reber said that salmon
carcasses also help prove that
the fi sh have spawned and then
died, thus completing their life
cycle and providing nutrients for
the eggs they deposit in the riv-
er. The Row River around Row
River Nature Park was a popular
place for successful angling, she
said.
And there will be more salm-
on introduced in the fi shery, ac-
cording to Ziller, who said that
ODFW is confronting a shortage
of Chinook eggs to try and com-
plete a plan to introduce an ad-
ditional 267,000 smolts into the
Coast Fork in the spring of 2016.
The return of the fi sh this year
seems to have convinced ODFW
that its efforts to re-establish the
local salmon fi shery have proved
successful, efforts that could
have been altered if the return
had proved less robust.
“It will be interesting to watch,
to see the fi shery develop,” he
said. “We obviously hope it
continues, but there are no guar-
antees. Everything points to a
downturn of ocean conditions
because of El Nino and other
factors, but we’re keeping our
fi ngers crossed.”
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Fork in the spring of 2014.
“There were a few fi sh caught
in 2014, but not enough to really
get people excited about search-
ing for them,” he said.
But greater numbers were
seen there in May of this year,
and Ziller said anglers reported
catching them all the way into
August. After their journey back
to this area, evidence that many
of the fi sh had successfully
spawned here in the late summer
and early fall — in the form of
their redds, or spawning beds, in
the streambed — could be seen,
with 19 redds reported in the
Coast Fork, 10 in Mosby Creek
and 13 in the Row River, accord-
ing to Ziller. He added that the
tally of fi sh caught by anglers in
these waterways won’t be fully
known for another year, after
salmon tags turned in by anglers
are counted, tags that bear a spe-
cial code identifying where the
fi sh were caught.
Pam Reber, outgoing director
of the Coast Fork Willamette
Watershed Council, estimated
that between 500 and 1,000 Chi-
nook salmon made their way
back into the local river system.
“We heard about plenty of
people pulling fi sh out, and there
were carcasses observed in the
Row and Mosby Creek, which
is important because decaying
fi sh carcasses are an important
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