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Re: Frost-Free Date Info Needed

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

There is a list of average last frost dates by USDA zones near the bottom of
the page at http://neptune.netimages.com/~chile/usda_zones.html.  It's
pretty close for our version of zone 9b.  There are also links for a number
of regions at   http://www.humeseeds.com/frost1.htm.  I believe the seed
companies have lists by zip codes.  Maybe they would be your best source.

For home gardening information, you might try Purdue.  The central and
southern areas of Indiana are pretty much the same as So/Central Illinois.
Some pretty good pubs at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/garden_pubs.html -
mostly .pdf which requires acrobat 3.0.  There are garden calendars for all
four seasons but I don't believe you will get any precise frost dates.  As I
recall, it varies all over the place from year to year.

Olin


Doreen Howard <doreen@fgi.net> wrote:
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 7:51 PM
Subject: Frost-Free Date Info Needed


>Is there any website that lists the average date of a last frost in various
>regions of the country?  The reason I ask is that I've moved from Texas to
>Illinois and find it is impossible to get a straight answer on the
>frost-free date.  I even went to the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
>Office today and asked.  The answer they gave was---"In southern Illinois
>it's April 5, and in Chicago it's about the end of April."  I live 200
miles
>south of Chicago and about 140 miles north of the south state border.  I've
>asked local gardeners, and their answers are very inconsistant--from April
>15 to May 15th!!  I need some precision!!  Also, does anyone in Illinois
>have an Internet source for gardening info?  The U. of Ill sites are
>terrible--all gene-altering and Bt corn agriculture info and nothing on
home
>gardens.  I'm desperate!  The Aggie-Hort site in Texas spoiled me.
>Doreen Howard,
>in Zone 5b, where I wish it were Spring!!
>
>
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