On 2020-03-15 16:51, songbird wrote:
T wrote:
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Zone 6b

I really only have about 60 days. We plant end of
May and frost gets up early October.

uh, that's really bad at math...

No fooling. If you plant before the end of the first week
in June, you risk a freeze. I take the risk and plant last
week in May. Only been nailed once.

And sometimes we get a freeze as early as the first
week in September.

So you really want everything to come to fruition
in 60 days.

And it it gets too hat in the summer, you risk
things bolting.

How farmers, whose livelyhood depends on it, put
up with the crap, is beyond me. It must be a calling.
Maybe it is the feels of a good soil in your hands.



Still raining and snowing today.

good for that area to get plenty of moisture.
it's been too dry for quite a while.

Our dirt is very water resistant. So a snow melting
snow is ideal as it will actually soak in. A quick
rain just mostly runs off



songbird