It seems to be adding one growing season..... I'm in USDA zone 5, but in there it's zone 6
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It seems to be adding one growing season..... I'm in USDA zone 5, but in there it's zone 6
It does extend the season for regular crops. I understand that it can make it possible to grow cool weather crops like kale and carrots well into the colder months. I don't know if they actually continue to grow or if they just don't die off. I know that carrots are good until the ground freezes. I've heard of people covering the carrots with straw to keep the ground from freezing around them when they're in a row cover or hoop house. I guess that way, they don't have to harvest them all at once, but can leave them in the ground until they want to use them. I don't know how well that would work up here with our winters, but it might work where you live. I suppose it depends on how cold it gets at night and how much ground freezing you get.
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I finished it last fall, and had Spinach, kale, and lettuce to pick all Winter. We are in hardiness zone 5, so yeah, it can get to 20 below. (-28c) Coldest I've ever seen here was a "Feels like" or wind chill of -53 f (-47c).
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How long does your winter usually last?
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Say...... Halloween to mid March. Our last frost free date is May 1st.
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It sounds like your season is about 2 months longer than ours. We can't put tomato plants in the garden until the end of May unless we're prepared to cover them every night due to frost. We've had frost the first week of June up here.
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Brrrrrr!!!
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Yeah, that...
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