Beginner Gardening: Perfect Growing States, 4 by RickCorey_WA

RickCorey_WA wrote:
>> the most perfect soil, weather, sun & rain for plants . I'm referring to gardens & flowers. I'm thinking Washington,California.,or Hawaii.

For WA, I only know the coastal Pacific NorthWet. The summer BARELY gets warm enough for tomatoes to ripen. Early-season and cherry, mostly. My garden wishes I had warmer summers and much warmer springs, but I am SO glad to escape hot, humid NJ & CT summers, I'll take what I have!

But we do have soggy soil 8-9 months of the year. Even though we seldom see the sun for most of the year, most summers are so dry that I finally put in drip/spray irrigation tubing. We don't have a lot of INCHES of rain, but a little rasin every day is so common that no one reaslly noticed when we had measurable rain EVERY day for 40-50 days.

They say that Easten WA (t' other side of the mountains) has n ormal hot and cold seasons, instead of cool and less cool.

I hear that I have "perfect climate" for Dahlias, Delphinium and Rhopdodendrons. I can tell that must true for Rhodies and Delphiniums. However, we also have a perfect climate for slugs. Until I learned what was happening, I fed tray after tray to delph seedlings to the slugs. It was like kidnapping or evaporation: the very first morning after I put seedlings out to harden, they were gone, level with the soil in their cells.

Then one plan t golt b ig enough to withstand them, and it flourished.


>> the most perfect soil,

If anyone, anywhere, has perfect soil, they never talk about it. All I ever hear about is clay and sand. Until I wnet online, I thought EVERY gardener had heavy clay, that was acid enough that the only question was whether you limed every other year, or every third year.