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Re: remedial question


-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
 Subject: Re: remedial question


> ...
>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.  ...

Not true for most of the south,and southwest.  Our growing season for cool
season vegetables is from late September through early March with the first
frost from mid to late November.  Most will tolerate light frost.

>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.

If we planted the hypothetical 45-day, frosy-intolerant beans October 1
(45-60 days before the first "expected" frost), no way would we get a crop.
Too cool and the days are too short.  We need to plant fall beans no later
than early September, and then it's not very reliable.  Latest reliable
planting time our fall beans is August 15 which is more like 90 days before
first frost.  The first frost date is not relevant in this case -
temperature and daylight hours are more important.
> ...
Olin
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