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Strawberries in warm climates should only be grown in winter. They are a cool weather crop. If May ends up warmer than avg here, the strawberries season lasts around a week. If May is average or cooler it can last weeks. They are gone by June though around here.
Cherries can't grow here, mine has never fruited. Climate too warm and they need all sorts of soil amendments. Strawberry season here this year was march! Thanks to the record warm february! Very early indeed
Cherries can't grow here, mine has never fruited. Climate too warm and they need all sorts of soil amendments. Strawberry season here this year was march! Thanks to the record warm february! Very early indeed
It is in February/Mar in Savannah when they pick them. Both winters I have been there in January their strawberry crops already had little red strawberries on them. That is why I said they have to be grown in winter where Spring and Summer are too warm.
When is your strawberry season normally without a really warm Feb?
You find English to be more pale than people from Nordic countries?
It was the first week of July when I was in Tampere so a peak sun angle of around 51 degrees, same as 10th August here. It's usually about 20th August when I can be out all day without needing any kind of sun cream on here so it makes sense that I got burnt there. I've noticed too that I don't get sunburnt as easily as I used to (I was only 21 then) as well.
There are actually a few beaches in Tampere by the lakes, certainly didn't expect to be spending much time sunbathing on the beach in nearly 80F weather in an inland city at 61N.
'Nypotatis'. Do you have them in Norway? In Finland and Sweden the potatoes grow so fast due to the long days that in Central Europe they will still be toxic, while here ready to eat. Another is strawberries. For example Spanish strawberries taste absolutely terrible.
Oh yes, we have "Nypoteter". And we have many fields of strawberries along the Trondheim fjord. They even grow strawberries north of the Arctic Circle, as in the Harstad - area.
shorter days are better than long days in winter , all that gloom and grey is unsightly and depressing - better when it's dark so you don't notice it imho
I prefer to have at least 7 hours of night time in the summer solstice, so anywhere poleward of 53.4°N/S doesn't appeal to me to live for a long period of time.
The daylight hours in summer is obviously the main advantage. When being in the Gulf Stream hinterland it can create a brilliant crossover of a low sun, full daylight and 25C simultaneously after 8 pm, which is arguably the best climatic condition on offer in the world!
Apart from that I fail to see many advantages. We're lucky here with being to the west on the continent with the most powerful ocean current there is aiding temps and even so it feels like living in a polar wasteland from November to March and let's be honest; neither April nor October are too pleasant either. The sole advantage I can see is the daylight in summer as mentioned above, but in winter there's a severe mood issue for many people with a lack of energy and perpetual fatigue due to the absence of sunlight and the perpetual nights. Would there be global warming at a runaway scenario though this latitude may be an oasis. Who knows?
One other advantage of higher latitudes is longer twilights year-round, not just in summer. The 4.5 hours of daylight in Trondheim on the winter solstice doesn't sound quite so bad when you add on 2.5 hours of civil twilight. By the time you get to the spring equinox, daylight already lasts from 5.30 am until nearly 7.30 pm if you take civil twilight into account.
What's also better is more spectacular sunrises/sunsets if the Svalbard webcam pictures are anything to go by.
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