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Re: Last/First Frost Under Hoops and Cold Frames

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AG

I would try planting one month earlier this year, see how it goes and then adjust
for next year.  I spent time with "Four Season Harvest" today and have a really bad
case of garden fever.  May it be an early spring. I have never had good luck with
Wall-O-Waters.  We use black plastic wrapped around the lower 2/3 rd  the tomato
cages and clear plastic over the hoops that grace our raised beds.  As it warms up
we open the clear plastic more and lower the black plastic around the cages. Deany,
zone 4

"A.G. Pitsilos" wrote:

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>
> I just added cold frames and hoop houses to my garden and was wondering what
> this would do to my frost free dates. In the book, Four Season Harvest, Elliot
> Coleman says that if it's 10 degrees out on a cloudy day, that it should get
> down to about 28 under the cold frames under the hoop house.
>
> With my frost free being May 15 and first frost Oct 15, I figure this pushes my
> dates for frost temps 2 months on both sides of the calendar. Last year I put
> tomatoes out under Walls-o-Water's March 15 (while it was snowing) and I had no
> problems.
>
> Do you think 2 months on each side is too aggressive?
>
> Of course this means I'm really late planting seeds!
>
> Thanks,
>
> AG
>
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