Oregon Spring, developed at Oregon State University, will produce incredibly early yields of oval tomatoes when planted outside a month before your last frost date and given no protection except on frosty nights, according to Territorial Seed Co.
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It’s always something. It could be flea beetles on the broccoli. Or blossom end rot on the tomatoes. Or powdery mildew blanketing the pumpkin patch. (Or all of the above!) Gardeners have long taken these — and plenty of other — challenges in stride. But, with increased temperatures and more frequent and extreme weather events, gardeners everywhere are facing some altogether new challenges.