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Old 02-09-2016, 12:47 PM
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What's strange? The vast majority of crops are usually planted in Feb/Mar, then there are some like courgette, sweetcorn, tomato, capsicum or cucumber that have to wait until April or even May.
Strange to me. That's obviously not true in a climate with sub-freezing winters.

 
Old 02-09-2016, 12:55 PM
 
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Quite difficult to plant something in February in Massachusetts or Turku where the ground might have frost heave and a foot of snow on the ground.
 
Old 02-09-2016, 01:00 PM
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Quite difficult to plant something in February in Massachusetts or Turku where the ground might have frost heave and a foot of snow on the ground.
You see my comparison of Helsinki and Amherst winter maxes / mins?

//www.city-data.com/forum/42939182-post92.html
 
Old 02-09-2016, 01:46 PM
 
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You see my comparison of Helsinki and Amherst winter maxes / mins?

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I will look at it now. I assume you took the data from the NOAA database, so it's Helsinki Centre you're talking about?
 
Old 02-09-2016, 02:20 PM
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Location: Surrey/London
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Strange to me. That's obviously not true in a climate with sub-freezing winters.
When would things like sweetcorn or courgettes be planted there?
 
Old 02-09-2016, 02:44 PM
 
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Sweetcorn is absolutely on the northernmost fringes of it's habitable range in Southern Finland, and without protection in a cool summer like last one, they might not mature properly at all.

Zucchini is best not to put in earth before mid-May. The long days and intensive growing period will give good harvest anyway.

Apparently the northernmost small-scale sweetcorn plantation in the world is in Kuopio.
 
Old 02-09-2016, 02:55 PM
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When would things like sweetcorn or courgettes be planted there?
website says it should be planted after killing frosts are likely

https://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-98.pdf

Sweet corn is a warm season crop requiring a minimum soil temperature of 50˚F (60-95˚F is optimum) for seed germination. Seed should not be planted earlier than 10 days to 2 weeks after the average date of the last killing frost. If planted too early, poor stands, retarded growth, or frost-killed seedlings may result.

Sweetcorn does well here, some very tall cornstalks here in September though I dunno if they were the sweet variety. Late July:

 
Old 02-09-2016, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Lexington, KY
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NWS Observations are a joke sometimes. I don't know how many times it's said "Fair" or "Partly Cloudy" and I look outside and it's 100% overcast (like right now). I don't understand how this happens so often.
At other times it can be too sensitive in reporting clouds. On the way home from last summer's trip, when I drove through Savannah at around 10 am there was not a single cloud anywhere, but it was hazy. The conditions were recorded as mostly cloudy in historical data.
 
Old 02-09-2016, 06:27 PM
 
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Speaking of vegie gardens, one of the great things about summer, is fresh tomato on toast - yum!
 
Old 02-10-2016, 12:27 AM
 
Location: In transition
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i dont ****en think so. The only thing repetitive is the endless cold front and southerly attacks. Absolute horses ass of a failed crummer down there. No denying it.

been 9 days since my last drink and I just wanna ****ing smash everyone in sight
I thought you said your crummer wasn't bad so far
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