"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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"Mark" writes:
| "Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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| Sweet potatoes? It might surprise you that Alaska's summer in the
| more populated areas is not that much colder or darker than the UK.
| The differences are in the winters.
|
| When you mean darker are you refering to the amount of light (as in
it's
| allways cloudy) not actually the daylight hours as in the further north
you
| go the more you get (in the summer)?

The former. But, despite the longer days, you lose out even in
summer, because the angle drops. However, the insolation in the
UK in high summer is not bad - the problem is that means the latter
half of May, June and July, and things like squashes don't START
ripening until the sunlight has become very weak. The same applies
to Alaska.


So what are the chances of growing them in a south facing conservatory in
"Sunny" Shropshire, and if so how early would they need to be started.

Mark