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Re: remedial question

At 03:09 AM 8/11/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/10/98 9:52:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>millero@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
><< I also live in zone 9 and I have found the planting dates recommended on
> seed packets don't really apply to us.  I kept records beginning about 35
> years ago that I refer to.  >>
>
>I live in coastal calif and not much written has ever applied to my
particular
>situation.  I just hate having to re-invent the wheel.  I wish I had kept
>better notes over the years,  but that is not my nature.  Too bad.  I
still am
>curious what they specifically mean by 'late summer'.
>
>Janet.

For those of us with expectable frosts (you have frosts, although they may
be sufficiently infrequent as to not be "expectable"), that's the end of
the growing season.  If we want to plant beans, for instance, we count
backwards from that average date of first hard frost to see if we have time
for the beans to mature if we planted them now.  Suppose you had Contender
beans, 45 days to maturity, and an average first frost of Oct. 8.  Would
you have time to get a harvest?  Barely, if all went well.  This is "late
summer," and many people do plant fall gardens with crops that are not
quite as frost tender as beans.  

I think the wheel is sufficiently established now that you don't have to
re-invent it any more.  Margaret
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