Perfect Growing States

What States do you think have the most perfect soil, weather, sun & rain for plants . I'm referring to gardens & flowers. I'm thinking Washington,California.,or Hawaii.

LOL!!! Texas.

>> 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.

Rick if you want tomatoes to ripen put them under plastic.

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I don't know much about any other states but SC is pretty good. We can garden vegetables 'about' year round here. Granted we can't grow warm weather vegetables in the winter like some states can probably but our soil is second to none depending on where you live. However, I would have to throw my vote towards FL and TX and maybe HI.

RickCorey_WA--We have booked our next big vacation. We will be staying near Mt. Hood and visiting the back side of Mt. St. Helen's, Crater Lake, Redwood National Park, Portland, Mt. Hood, Salem, Eugene, and Corvallis. We love that part of the country. It's so much different than here. We will be there in July 2014.

I have tried to garden in Indiana,New Mexico,Nevada,Oklahoma,Florida,Arizonia, Calif.,and now Texas. There is no way that Texas is on the good list.

>> Rick if you want tomatoes to ripen put them under plastic.

Yup. Small hoop tunnels so you can start them 1-2 months sooner (and get growth).

Tall plastic tents so they don't get nasty at the first cold snap. I had Siletz change from fairly tasty to nasty (like week-old oatmeal) after just 1-2 nights that wsent below 50 - somewhere in the 40s. Sungold cherry toms weren't bothered a bit.

Concur. Texas and California have sufficient varied climates to grow almost any thing from subtropical to cool weather crops. You have to move around the state but you can find an area to suit your plants. Florida can compete with southern California and the winter garden area of Texas but not with the northern or drier areas.