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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... snip I have to say that I did not publish my comments about Canada not being the uk, it was sent in a personal email. Alan Perhaps bg doesn't know that private emails are supposed to be just that? Though if they are insulting or troublemaking, or indeed, someone lies to a group about the content of an email they've received, my personal view on that sort of behaviour is "publish and be damned". ;-) Nonetheless, the climate of e.g. Vancouver really is very like parts of UK, so I don't think bg is being unreasonable in talking to a UK group really, do you? That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, they do not understand we have weather! Alan When you say 'they' do you mean most of them or all of them.....I, for example, understand that you have weather perhaps as well as you do and I am in the USA...H |
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"middleton.walker" wrote in message . .. That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, they do not understand we have weather! Alan When you say 'they' do you mean most of them or all of them.....I, for example, understand that you have weather perhaps as well as you do and I am in the USA...H The sentence is pretty clear, 'they' refers to the people in the usa who ask about the climate regions. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , " That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"middleton.walker" wrote in message news On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather Talking about English weather....a few years back I was biking from Weymouth to Plymouth before pedalling my ass to York...the weather was crappy....drizzling and windy...all of a sudden the weather cleared a wee bit and the sun came thru and just at that moment a lady on here bike was passing by on the other side of the road...had to smile to myself at her comment.....'nice day'...a few minutes later the sun dissapeared and the drizzle came on again...H |
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from "middleton.walker" contains these words: "Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , " That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather Far more people looking for it, I suppose. Weather's easy to find. -- Rusty Separator in search of a sig |
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On 4/12/05 18:29, in article ,
"Alan Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... snip I have to say that I did not publish my comments about Canada not being the uk, it was sent in a personal email. Alan Perhaps bg doesn't know that private emails are supposed to be just that? Though if they are insulting or troublemaking, or indeed, someone lies to a group about the content of an email they've received, my personal view on that sort of behaviour is "publish and be damned". ;-) Nonetheless, the climate of e.g. Vancouver really is very like parts of UK, so I don't think bg is being unreasonable in talking to a UK group really, do you? That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! But then it's quite easy to redirect them to rec.gardening, the US group. Of course, there are parts of USA with climates like ours but what we can't do in UK is restrict ourselves to zones. Would it be a Good Thing if we could, I wonder? Or is that diversity part of what makes gardening here so interesting? I know what I think but I wonder what everyone else thinks of it? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
But then it's quite easy to redirect them to rec.gardening, the US group. Of course, there are parts of USA with climates like ours but what we can't do in UK is restrict ourselves to zones. Would it be a Good Thing if we could, I wonder? Or is that diversity part of what makes gardening here so interesting? I know what I think but I wonder what everyone else thinks of it? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) Zones, as y'all know, is not a panacea re gardening....but it certainly is of value and a money savings asset....little old Cape Cod is an example.....about 80 miles from tip to toe and about 30 miles at its widest point and tapering down to vitually zero....parts of Cape Cod are in zone 7 and parts in zone 6.....what is the point of buying a zone 7 rated plant and sticking in a zone 6...I admit that temperature alone is not the key to survival but an important one....have lived on the Cape a little over 20 years (retirement ones) and in the beginning planted some zone 7 rated plants....no more....just not worth taking the risk((to those that might add 'did I screw up'...I have been around the gardening scene far to long and know the difference)). .....suspect that out west and perhaps in the San Francisco area they might have a climate (weather) somewhat similar to the uk but elsewhere ????....certainly not on the east coast....the northern part of the east coast gets too damned cold in the winter and a tad hot in the summer...a little further south not as cold in the winter but even hotter in the summer.....on the east coast one of the better climates (not weather particularly) is right where I am....good old Cod Cod where the average January temperatures a average hi of 5C and average low of minus 6C....the July numbers are av, hi 26C and av. lo 17C....all time winter record low being minus 12C...(inland from Cape Cod and by only 50 miles or so another story where winter lows can go down to minus 32C and as high as 40C)......zones are of value.....I suspect the same applies in the UK but to a lesser degree re zones but you certainly have them.....and micro zones within zones or if you like micro climates....lets face it, even in my own garden there are some spots I will not plant certain plants due to its 'micro climate'. am finished....for now anyway.........H |
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