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- From: gwv@eastrg2.cray.com (George Vandenberghe)
- Subject: Re: Early Start Ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.142433.1846@walter.cray.com>
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- References: <BzMp50.49p@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1992Dec22.124055.17201@kodak.kodak.com> <1992Dec22.182034.7823@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:24:33 CST
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- In article <1992Dec22.182034.7823@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, ehwd@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (Eric Howard) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec22.124055.17201@kodak.kodak.com> bryant@neural.Kodak.COM (Steve Bryant) writes:
- |> >
- |> >>I always get a kick out of this sort of thing. Do you know that there is
- |> >>a whole large country complete with farmers and market gardeners located
- |> >>to the north of you? Also, many people are very successful in raising
- |> >>veggies in U.S. areas like New England, Minnesota, and Montana, not to
- |> >>mention Alaska!
- |> >
- |> >Land north of Rochester? And you can grow things there! There may still
- |> >be hope for Rochester after all.
- |>
- |> Yeah, when I was going to school in Florida I met a guy who runs a nursery
- |> north of Toronto. I was slightly amazed that he spent his winters in Fl, but
- |> did a thriving nursery business north of here. I had a standing invite to
- |> go see it, but as it's been a few years, and I don't remember the guy's name
- |> ...
- |>
- |> eric howard
- |> u of rochester
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- Just another strand in the thread. I have always wanted to try
- growing a vegetable garden in a cool summer area (Duluth, Caribou)
- and also wanted to try a region with long summer days (Fairbanks).
- In general, (very very general) Northern gardeners get higher yields
- during the bearing season because the days are longer and the
- cooler temperatures reduce the respiration of the plant so more
- carbohydrates can go to the fruits. Admittedly this only
- holds for warm season plants down to mean temperatures around 68 degrees
- and for cool season plants down to 55 degrees. The 68 degree isotherm
- runs pretty close to the U.S. border in summer and I must confess I have
- never tried a garden in a region
- with mean summer temperatures colder
- than the 70 degree mean in State College PA (Central PA). Here
- in DC I usually see a little heat stress on tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, and
- squash and sweet corn (reduced yields during hot weather). In Tallahassee Florida,
- it was a lot worse especially when the sun started getting weaker after July 15.
- The DC mean summer temperature is 78 degrees (mean high 88 mean low 69 ..okay 78.5)
- The Tallahsssee mean is 82 degrees with shorter days/longer nights. On the
- other hand winter gardening was not too difficult down there and spring
- gardening was more pleasant than here in DC
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