Re: planting out dates?

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Here in Eastern Massachusetts spring is early. Plants are two weeks ahead of schedule. In the garden centers, people have been asking for tomatoes and impatiens since May 1st. Our traditional planting time for such things is Memorial day, although for the past six to eight years people have gotten away with planting in mid-May, although often the plants just sulk until June. In this area it isn't frost that's a problem, but cold soil and night temperatures below 50. That's my mantra to my GardenLine listeners: "Wait until the night temperatures are reliably above 50, because tomatoes, basil, impatiens and the like don't do well when the nights are cold." 

A look at the ten day forecast confirms that we're ahead of schedule on night temps as well. Normally we don't have a spring in this coastal region - this year we're all rejoicing! 

C.l.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hamptongar@aol.com
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 5:33 pm
Subject: Re: [GWL] planting out dates?

Because of our early spring in NY our official growing season started two  
weeks earlier than last year according to the NWS.  In our zone 5 area the  
lettuce, beets, mache, spinach and radishes are definitely ahead of previous 
 years but my hostas that are not under the canopy of lilac foliage got 
toasted  last week by below freezing temps two nights in a row as did four 
hydrangeas  that are out in the open.  Our apple trees here and in Westchester 
have  long since finished blooming but just a mile up the street which is 
1000 feet  higher in altitude they haven't bloomed yet and the top of the 
mountain is  leafless with pathches of snow.  Meanwhile..out in Southampton 
where 
we  have a maritime climate that's not a subject to the changes in air 
masses as the  water tempers even the coldest of cold fronts everything seems to 

be right on  time.

Sooooo...my zone 7 is right on time, my zone 6 is two weeks early and my  
zone 5 is as unpredictable as always.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press 

In a message dated 5/16/2010 3:52:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jeff.lowenfels@gmail.com writes:

Just  curious. The traditional planting date for going outdoors in 
Anchorage is  Memorial Day weekendâthis year a week later than normal. Any other 

folks have  such late planting out dates?

Teaming With Microbes,

Jeff  L

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