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Zone 3 gardeners?

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Jackie wrote:

>Thanks for writing!  The difference here between your zone and
>my zone is the soil.  We have to work with the glacier rock
>that has formed which means I basically have rocks, rocks and
>more rocks. 
Excuse the slow reply, I only check this email account every 7-10 days.
No,we are lucky to have great soil in most of the midwest.  Sandy loam,
pH=7, no rocks bigger than a golf ball.   Good stuff for square foot
gardning.  Each year, I put a little compost in from the city compost
site.  That's it.

>Then the other difference is 40 to 50 degree nights here.
>Do you have these low temp's in Minnesota at night?
Not as cold at night.  We have a Continental climate, which means no
large bodies of water nearby to mitigate the seasonal extremes..  So, we
get the zone 4 thirty below winters and the hot (95F) summers.
Zones are somewhat misleading for vegetable gardening.  They really just
describe the winter temp and are more useful for perennials, picking
fruit trees, etc.  They correlate to frost dates and length of day, but
not exactly.


>>Speaking of peppers, an excellent book is "The Pepper Garden"  by Dave
>>DeWitt and Paul Bosland. In it is a section on growing peppers in cool
>>climates and a list of peppers that do well under those conditions.
>Now this has my interest!  What do they consider cool?
>I have never had a successful pepper but would love to!
Under Bells, they list "California Wonder", "Gypsy, "Karlo", and 
"Mexi-bell".  They also list "Hungarian Yellow", "Jalapa",  and "Long
Slim Cayenne".
These were complied by extension service lists from Vermont, Minnesota,
Colorado, Idaho, AND Alaska, so it seems your extension service is active
in cold climate veggy growing.

I have no problems growing square foot peppers.  As the book says, start
them inside, just like tomatoes.  They grow more slowly than the tomatoes
 until the summer really warms up, then they take off.

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