Re: Weather

OUr last frost date is May 10.  However, I generally trust weather.com to be
reasonably accurate, so I could check it on May 1st and get a rough idea if
there is a chance of frost before then.  If not, I'd be confident in
planting out annuals.  Too often I run into people who think this applies to
newly purchased perennials too, but that's generally not the case, so long
as you've hardened them if they were greenhouse grown.

We've never had a snow in June here. I couldn't swear about early May, but
it would have been a fluke.  April - definite possibility, but not this
year.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Weather


> I ran into a lady at a local nursery the other day who was saying there
was
> no way it would freeze between now and May 15th.  I tried to remind her
that
> it wasn't safe to gamble with a pricy plant because it had snowed in May a
> number of times in the recent past and in June at least once!  She looked
at
> me like I was crazy.  I gave up.
>
> I don't think of caution as old age kicking in, just an accumulation of
> enough experience to prevent us from doing something we'll regret later.
> Everything I've gotten thus far can be moved indoors until May 15 if we
get
> a cold spell.  I was feeling really bad that I had another month to wait
> until one of the brokers I was working with in Colorado reminded me that
> their last frost date was much later than mine.  It's all relative.
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH -zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Donna
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 6:59 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Weather
>
> Well we have at least a month to go before the frost free time....although
> the weather has been awesome!
>
> Who remembers the old tales... seen the dandelions are blooming and
thought
> that was the sign of no more freezing weather... but could really be
wrong--
> you know, old age kicking in...
>
> Donna
>
>
> > Well, spring has definitely sprung here.  We killed the first copperhead
> > of
> > the season yesterday.  I'm off to the yard for planting, rearranging and
> > weeding as needed. :-)  It's supposed to be 80 today, and yesterday was
> > our
> > last frost date.  Whee!
> > zem
> > zone 7
> > West TN
>
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