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You can extend it...up to a point. That's what I do. 4-6 weeks in spring, 4 weeks in fall. That adds two months of extra growing season, but in a place with a 3 month growing season, a 5-6 month growing season is still short.
Yes but the longer summer days make up for it, it makes things grow much faster, have you ever seen the giant cabbages grown in Alaska?
I know that, most places do, especially because certain crops, like apples for example, will not grow in a subtropical climate
It depends on how you're defining a subtropical climate. Apples need a dormant winter period and springs/summers that aren't too warm and humid, but there are still plenty of areas classified as subtropical and which grow apples.
Using just one plant species to define climate is problematic - for example, apples and fruiting bananas grow together in some parts of NZ, so one would then have to say that either apples can grow in a subtropical climate, or that bananas don't need a subtropical climate.
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It depends on how you're defining a subtropical climate. They need a dormant winter period and springs/summers that aren't too warm and humid, but there are still plenty of areas classified as subtropical and which grow apples.
Using just one plant species to define climate is problematic - for example, apples and fruiting bananas grow together in some parts of NZ, so one would then have to say that either apples can grow in a subtropical climate, or that bananas don't need a subtropical climate.
My point was that crops like apples won't grow in the three main agra areas I mentioned, because limited frosts, no freezes, and too hot majority of the year, most apples in North America are grown in the Pac NW and in New England.
And Banana's are a tropical crop as far as I knew, our banana's are brought in by boat from Central America
My point was that crops like apples won't grow in the three main agra areas I mentioned, because limited frosts, no freezes, and too hot majority of the year, most apples in North America are grown in the Pac NW and in New England.
And Banana's are a tropical crop as far as I knew, our banana's are brought in by boat from Central America
We grow more than just apples in this part of the world as far as fruit goes. There are also: Pears, Peaches, Plums, Apricots, Grapes, Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries commercially. In Vancouver, I've also seen figs and kiwifruit in people's yards. I think I may have also seen a loquat as well.
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