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- From: ehwd@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (Eric Howard)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Early Start Ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.220345.5117@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:03:45 GMT
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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
-
- I found it quite difficult to get decent yeilds from a "second season" (the
- third season was out of the question, as I was in the North over the summer break)
- in Florida, due to the heat, but that may have been more from a lack of trying
- /perserverence than anything else. I always did better with the early
- season crop.
-
- I was also definately a northern gardener. I only really had 2 years
- of gardening in Florida before I came back up north. You really can't grow
- peas in parts of Florida, no matter what you do w/ them.
-
- eric howard
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