What did you do in your garden today?

[NH Homesteader]

How are your last frost dates so early? Mine says June 3… maybe I need to look somewhere else lol, I’m zone 4b

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

I have seen varying frost dates for my area, I just took an average of what I found. I have yet to find two sites that say the same date.

I found this chart which was helpful for me

Not sure how accurate it is, but it gave me the best range estimates

First and last freeze/frost dates for Stillwater, MN ,United States

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[NH Homesteader]

Interesting… this seems pretty accurate going by previous years

 

[flowerbug]

we don't plant any warm weather crops here until the end of May and some i will go into June. even when i've had to replant some it seems like they catch up anyways.


the earliest i plant is now and into mid-April (peas direct sown and onion sets if i'm doing them).

i have some onion sets here ready to grow from last summer's harvest from seeds i'd planted the previous summer and amazingly they are doing just fine without me doing any special storage of them. i dried them out last year in box tops and then put them up on a shelf in the garage until it was getting to be too much freezing weather so i put them in a five gallon bucket and brought them in and they've been sitting in this room at about 65F for months.

they now have some green poking out of some of them and i need to get them planted in the next month or two, but it just rained here a bunch so it will be too muddy out there for me to do it until it dries out some more. i'm mostly planting these for seed production and a few eating onions will go in too, but it won't be my major sweet onion planting. those starts i plant when we do our warm weather planting the end of May.

 

[tortoise]

How are your last frost dates so early? Mine says June 3… maybe I need to look somewhere else lol, I’m zone 4b

Depends on what temperature and probability you use. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/when-expect-your-last-spring-freeze

 

[CrealCritter]

I use the following just type in your zip code and it gives you

Nearest Climate Station	Altitude	Last Spring Frost	First Fall Frost	Growing Season

It's been good to me for many a season.

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates

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[NH Homesteader]

Yeah that one says June 3rd That’s so far away!

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah that one says June 3rd That’s so far away!

Huh... you are later than I am. I got May 21.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

We are turning into a berry farm here. I have 35 strawberries coming, 5 blueberries, 10 raspberries, 2 currants, 2 dwarf cherry trees and a plum tree. Now to wait until May for them to get here.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I ordered strawberries and blueberries, I have a few blueberry plants I hope survived the winter, oh and I ordered some elderberries. Berry farms are the best! Lol

We have old, old apple trees and we want to graft on a more edible variety… maybe next year we’ll do it (we’ve only been saying that for 9 years )