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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:44:06 -0600, kate
wrote: dave weil wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:12:24 GMT, escapee wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:38 GMT, Crystal opined: When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher Average last frost date in my region is March 6, but I don't ever trust that as anything can happen. We safely go with March 15-20. For sure by March 30. I think I read that here in Nashville (Zone 6b), last frost date is usually considered either 7 or 12 April. For the last couple of years, I don't remember a frost in April at all. But you never know about these things. Growing up in Memphis, we got the largest snowfall in recorded history on April 18th (I think). It was 18 inches back around '68. I'm sure Nashville got plastered as well. It was a funny thing. Just this week, we got 7 inches of snow just a hour SOUTH of here. Nashville got nary a flake. What hurts us is the late March hard frost that we always seem to get. It occurs right at the peak of marigold bloomings. Usually screws things up good, especially since mid-March is usually quite warm. That's why I usually wait until mid-April to do my serious spring pruning. Marigold bloomings in March? When do you plant your marigolds? Oooops, I didn't mean marigolds. Sorry. Brain lockup. I meant narcissus. I don't know why I occasionally mix up the names. Sorry! Farmers Almanac lists Nashville's last frost date as April 5, but my neighbors don't put their tomatoes in until April 25. I'm usually a dare devil and put them in around April 15. It's beautiful here today. I hoed around the garlic (transplanting some of the chickweed from my neighbor's garden to mine) while he tilled. A very pleasant hour and probably more productive than my removing moss for my garden and transplanting it to the mossy front yard. Kate |
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kate wrote:
... but my neighbors don't put their tomatoes in until April 25. I'm usually a dare devil and put them in around April 15... If your first planting of tomatoes doesn't freeze occasionally you aren't putting them in early enough. Push the envelope (but provide them some protection). (Also, plan on a couple different plantings of tomatoes). [Here in MA, we've had frost as late as Memorial day and as early as the week before Labor day, so think of us while you're planting] |
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kate wrote:
... but my neighbors don't put their tomatoes in until April 25. I'm usually a dare devil and put them in around April 15... If your first planting of tomatoes doesn't freeze occasionally you aren't putting them in early enough. Push the envelope (but provide them some protection). (Also, plan on a couple different plantings of tomatoes). [Here in MA, we've had frost as late as Memorial day and as early as the week before Labor day, so think of us while you're planting] |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:44:06 -0600, kate
wrote: dave weil wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:12:24 GMT, escapee wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:38 GMT, Crystal opined: When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher Average last frost date in my region is March 6, but I don't ever trust that as anything can happen. We safely go with March 15-20. For sure by March 30. I think I read that here in Nashville (Zone 6b), last frost date is usually considered either 7 or 12 April. For the last couple of years, I don't remember a frost in April at all. But you never know about these things. Growing up in Memphis, we got the largest snowfall in recorded history on April 18th (I think). It was 18 inches back around '68. I'm sure Nashville got plastered as well. It was a funny thing. Just this week, we got 7 inches of snow just a hour SOUTH of here. Nashville got nary a flake. What hurts us is the late March hard frost that we always seem to get. It occurs right at the peak of marigold bloomings. Usually screws things up good, especially since mid-March is usually quite warm. That's why I usually wait until mid-April to do my serious spring pruning. Marigold bloomings in March? When do you plant your marigolds? Oooops, I didn't mean marigolds. Sorry. Brain lockup. I meant narcissus. I don't know why I occasionally mix up the names. Sorry! Farmers Almanac lists Nashville's last frost date as April 5, but my neighbors don't put their tomatoes in until April 25. I'm usually a dare devil and put them in around April 15. It's beautiful here today. I hoed around the garlic (transplanting some of the chickweed from my neighbor's garden to mine) while he tilled. A very pleasant hour and probably more productive than my removing moss for my garden and transplanting it to the mossy front yard. Kate |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:44:06 -0600, kate
wrote: dave weil wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:12:24 GMT, escapee wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:38 GMT, Crystal opined: When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher Average last frost date in my region is March 6, but I don't ever trust that as anything can happen. We safely go with March 15-20. For sure by March 30. I think I read that here in Nashville (Zone 6b), last frost date is usually considered either 7 or 12 April. For the last couple of years, I don't remember a frost in April at all. But you never know about these things. Growing up in Memphis, we got the largest snowfall in recorded history on April 18th (I think). It was 18 inches back around '68. I'm sure Nashville got plastered as well. It was a funny thing. Just this week, we got 7 inches of snow just a hour SOUTH of here. Nashville got nary a flake. What hurts us is the late March hard frost that we always seem to get. It occurs right at the peak of marigold bloomings. Usually screws things up good, especially since mid-March is usually quite warm. That's why I usually wait until mid-April to do my serious spring pruning. Marigold bloomings in March? When do you plant your marigolds? Oooops, I didn't mean marigolds. Sorry. Brain lockup. I meant narcissus. I don't know why I occasionally mix up the names. Sorry! Farmers Almanac lists Nashville's last frost date as April 5, but my neighbors don't put their tomatoes in until April 25. I'm usually a dare devil and put them in around April 15. It's beautiful here today. I hoed around the garlic (transplanting some of the chickweed from my neighbor's garden to mine) while he tilled. A very pleasant hour and probably more productive than my removing moss for my garden and transplanting it to the mossy front yard. Kate |
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Very cute. Wonder if there's any connection? I don't know about a saying, but I used to hold out on buying new flowers until after I'd filed my taxes, which was usually at the last minute, of course! At least it kept me from filing an extension. Last year my son walked me through filing them online at taxbrain.com, and it was so easy that I went back to the site this year and have already finished my 2003's. Now I have to wait another month before I can even think about planting, grrrr! Maybe procrastination was better after all. Deena ~remove 'queen' to email me~ I'm actually just a princess ... ;-) In article t, says... When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher |
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That is the last freeze date here as well. All my roses are pruned
and now seeing lots of new leaf groth. Daffodils, Bearded and Siberian Iris are starting to bloom. Lobelia has seeded and is coming up all over the place. Such a pretty weed. Janet On 19 Feb 2004 19:19:45 GMT, (Unique Too) wrote: last frost date is usually considered either 7 or 12 April. For the last couple of years, I don't remember a frost in April at all. But you never know about these things. Growing up in Memphis, we got the largest snowfall in recorded history on April 18th (I think). It was 18 inches back around '68. I'm sure Nashville got plastered as well. It was a funny thing. The last AVERAGE frost date for our area is February 15. It seems that every year the week leading up to the 15th is the coldest of the year. Often we will have our first and only freeze that week. This year it was beautiful the week prior, so we're having to pay for it this week. It's been in the low 40's for the past two nights. DH said he saw some frost on the roofs this morning, but I didn't see any damage on my frost meters (impatients). BTW, my roses are already all pruned. Even if we get some cold weather it won't (shouldn't) be bad enough to cause any damage. |
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Very cute. Wonder if there's any connection? I don't know about a saying, but I used to hold out on buying new flowers until after I'd filed my taxes, which was usually at the last minute, of course! At least it kept me from filing an extension. Last year my son walked me through filing them online at taxbrain.com, and it was so easy that I went back to the site this year and have already finished my 2003's. Now I have to wait another month before I can even think about planting, grrrr! Maybe procrastination was better after all. Deena ~remove 'queen' to email me~ I'm actually just a princess ... ;-) In article t, says... When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher |
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"WiGard" wrote in message news On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:38 +0000, Crystal wrote: When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher The USDA has all kinds of charts with average last frost dates. Why ask? She's prolly just curious about us. In Tallahassee it is March 16, but we had a doozie on April 12 last year. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears. |
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"WiGard" wrote in message news On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:38 +0000, Crystal wrote: When is the average last frost where you are? When I lived in Portland, everyone believed that the last frost was always on Tax Day, April 15! Is this a saying anywhere else? Now I live in Northern California, where there's never any frost. Not in my corner of it, at least. Dreaming of springtime, Crystal Bucher The USDA has all kinds of charts with average last frost dates. Why ask? She's prolly just curious about us. In Tallahassee it is March 16, but we had a doozie on April 12 last year. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears. |
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