Unusually Dry Spring Continues Into Mid-April
(Cover photo credit: Clifford Paguio Jr.) If you garden or have been outdoors recently, you’re probably aware of what a dry spring it has been in Portland and the northern Willamette Valley. In many years, springtime is a rather mushy and marshy kind of season, with frequent rain keeping the ground muddy and the soil cold – sometimes lasting into May before conditions start to improve. Not this year. Actually, not last year either. Over the past decade (or more…