Welcome

The purpose of this site is to answer your gardening questions and to supply you with common sense information. Keep coming back to oregongardeningdude.com from time to time. I will be adding new information as time permits. Please e-mail me with any gardening or landscape question that you may have or you can post a comment/question on my blog-(link to the left of this page) and I will answer and post it.

Within this site hopefully you will find information to make gardening enjoyable for you. There is information on planting bare root trees, taking care of roses, fertilizer, as well as other areas of gardening. Again,, if you have any questions, please e-mail--that is what this site is mainly for-- Happy Gardening--Chuck

Gardening information-July

For Southern Oregon, July is the middle of the growing season. Depending on where you live, it can start in March and end the first part of October. Most likely you are somewhere in between. Of course, the lower elevations have the longer growing seasons.

Watering and fertilizing are the two most important parts of gardening this time of year. If you can, avoid overhead watering of your plants. Try to water in the early morn if you can. If you have not fertilized your lawn for awhile(a month or two) now is the time, use a slow release type and then fertilize once more in the fall using a winterizing formula(lower nitrogen)

Some people think you can't plant anything in the middle of the summer---but you can. As far as flowers, trees and shrubs go---you can plant them now and they will do just find. You will have to water them in real well and try to plant them in the evening, not in the middle of the day (Mainly plants that have small and shallow root systems)

When planting vegi's, pay attention to the time to harvest of the plant. Some might be only 45 days, while some could be 120 days and plan and plant with that in mind. Hold off on planting any Cabbage, lettuce,onions and carrots---you can plant them in September for the fall

--get out there and enjoy.