Gardening In My Zone: Dealing With Short Growing Seasons
https://blog.gardeningknowhow.com/gkh-musings/dealing-with-short-growing-seasons/
I live on the Columbia River Plateau – an area of about 100,000 square miles of shrub-steppe that extends from the Cascade Mountains to the Rockies. People think the Pacific Northwest is lush and green with a marine climate, but that’s only the narrow strip running down western Oregon and Washington.