I wish I could grow that stuff in MA.
I am really praying that the dams hold the big stuff back. I drove through that part of California (from Yosemite up to the coast and then to seattle.)
That “heartland” was just gorgeous.
That “heartland” was just gorgeous.
The heartland not only feeds those of us on the left coast, it feeds a lot of the nations. The rice grown here feeds a lot Asians.
Lettuces will do fine after the floods go back down.
The tricky thing in N California re gardens and flowers is the often late frosts and cool to cold nights. Natives and those know better never plant tomatoe and anything that can be killed by a frost.
My wife gets great tomatoe from a woman known as15 the tomato lady. The tomato lady provided my wife with some tomato plants for a test. My wife is one of those organized type A’s, and she wants to do things when she wants not with Mother Nature.
My wife was to plant some at about Mid April, and the others after 15 May. We kept the late planters inside until 15 May.
The early tomatoes if not killed by a frost never did as well as the 15 May tomatoes. The psot 15 May tomatos were bigger, sturdier, blossomed earlier and had significantly more and better tomatos.
So now, my wife buys the tomatoes in April and we keep them inside until the 15 May planting.
The gromet lettuces are even more fragile/frost sensitive. We plant those in late May.