Re: What is a long growing season?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: What is a long growing season?
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 13:00:26 -0600 (CST)
Growing season is calculated as the number of days between last and
first frost. For us, first frost is typically late November; last frost
typically early March. This gives an approximately nine-month long
growing season, or approximately 270 days. HOWEVER, this is like USDA
zones -- not exactly applicable. We CAN grow cool season crops
throughout the winter (like lettuces, spinach, etc.) that we CANNOT grow
during our "growing season"; likewise, as another poster mentioned, our
"growing season" is bifurcated into twin growing seasons, a fall and a
spring, with the dog days of summer preventing almost everything from
blooming and setting fruit.
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Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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