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Enter your ZIP or pick a city for local frost dates, what to plant this week, and a full-year planting calendar for Oregon and Washington gardens.
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Pick your plants and get a dated to-do list for the year, with a cheat sheet for each plant. It saves as you go and prints on one page.
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Guides for Northwest gardeners
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The Best Tomatoes for Cool Northwest SummersWhich tomato varieties actually ripen in Portland, Seattle and the coast, and how to give them the heat they need.
Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening West of the CascadesHow to keep harvesting kale, carrots, garlic and greens through a mild Northwest winter, and when to plant for it.- Gardening in Bend and Central Oregon's Short SeasonHow to grow vegetables where frost can come almost any month: what to plant, when, and how to protect it.
Why Northwest planting dates are different
National charts key everything off the last frost date. Here that's only half the story: Portland's typical last frost is in mid-March, yet tomatoes planted then sit in cold, wet soil for two months, while the high desert can frost into June. Rainline Garden combines NOAA frost records for each area with Oregon State University Extension timing for when the soil is actually ready. See how the dates are worked out.