Icu4dzs
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One of the things I do when I read posts here is try to get a sense of how long the gardening season is for that particular poster based on where they say they live.
Our country is so diverse in its weather patterns that this question often comes to me as I read how the poster is able to do certain things that would NEVER be possible where I am. For instance, it is about 32F and snowing today. We're expecting 8-12 inches. Yes, I know what you're thinking, I must be in antartica, but I'm really only in the NE corner of South Dakota. Yes, 90 miles south of FARGO, but south none the less.
Here in SDAK we get about108 days of growing season assuming all things go well in Sep and we can plant by Memorial Day.
Folks like AL have a 280 growing season. (I know this because I used to live about 1/3 mile from where she lives.)
So, SS'ers, how long is your growing season? How long is your winter? How severe is your winter? Up here, the month of January and February often has long runs of 0-20 F with fairly long runs of -20 to -30 F. You can't leave anything out or it will freeze and break even if it is one of the so-called indestructible plastics.
What is the length of your heating season? OUrs is nearly 7- 8 months long. That is quite a time to be sure.
I guess I'm going to have to figure out a way to start doing some "indoor gardening" with hydroponics pretty soon as things just don't get time to mature in the amount of cold weather we get here.
Any ideas?
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Our country is so diverse in its weather patterns that this question often comes to me as I read how the poster is able to do certain things that would NEVER be possible where I am. For instance, it is about 32F and snowing today. We're expecting 8-12 inches. Yes, I know what you're thinking, I must be in antartica, but I'm really only in the NE corner of South Dakota. Yes, 90 miles south of FARGO, but south none the less.
Here in SDAK we get about108 days of growing season assuming all things go well in Sep and we can plant by Memorial Day.
Folks like AL have a 280 growing season. (I know this because I used to live about 1/3 mile from where she lives.)
So, SS'ers, how long is your growing season? How long is your winter? How severe is your winter? Up here, the month of January and February often has long runs of 0-20 F with fairly long runs of -20 to -30 F. You can't leave anything out or it will freeze and break even if it is one of the so-called indestructible plastics.
What is the length of your heating season? OUrs is nearly 7- 8 months long. That is quite a time to be sure.
I guess I'm going to have to figure out a way to start doing some "indoor gardening" with hydroponics pretty soon as things just don't get time to mature in the amount of cold weather we get here.
Any ideas?
//BT//
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