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Post by GunnarSK on May 9, 2016 10:03:19 GMT -5
THe conventional wisdom and tradition dictates that no frost sensitive plants should be planted before the average last frost in spring, which is next Sunday 15 May,St. Sophie's Day, called Zimna ZOśka (Cold Sophie). optimist as I am, I'd like to "roll the dice" and plant eg. tomatoes on Saturday, 14 may, but of course i could also follow tradition and plant on Tuesday 17 May. YOu can also play it safe and wait another week or more.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on May 9, 2016 21:23:19 GMT -5
Well good luck. Traditionally people plant on the Friday before Easter here.
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Post by GunnarSK on May 14, 2016 6:48:27 GMT -5
We did buy and plant some tomatoes yesterday despite it being Friday thirteenth May. According to superstition Friday thirteenth is a bad or unlucky date, and you shouldn't start anything on such a date. That is of no concern to me, but it was also quite early, St. Servatius' day well before average last frost, so I can lose some plants to late frost. The tomatoes selected were: Black Cherry, pink heart Bawole Serce and pink ball Malinowy Ożarowski with potato leaves.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on May 16, 2016 21:43:36 GMT -5
Just have some buckets available to cover the plants at night.
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Post by nightmist on Jun 5, 2016 10:13:22 GMT -5
THe conventional wisdom and tradition dictates that no frost sensitive plants should be planted before the average last frost in spring, which is next Sunday 15 May,St. Sophie's Day, called Zimna ZOśka (Cold Sophie). optimist as I am, I'd like to "roll the dice" and plant eg. tomatoes on Saturday, 14 may, but of course i could also follow tradition and plant on Tuesday 17 May. YOu can also play it safe and wait another week or more. I have always played it safe and not planted until the last week of May. I am in zone 5 bordering zone 6 but next to the great lakes so it is not uncommon to have zone 4 weather. I have been told many times that planting after May 15th is safe here. This year things started early. It was warm enough that my spring bulbs popped up a couple of weeks before usual. Mind you it is not unusual to see crocus in the snow around here, but even they were way early. My cherries went into to bloom right around Easter. The trees were budding up, all the plants were acting like spring was here and it was time to get going. We even got an asparagus harvest. I swore at the cherries and their notions, and wondered if I would get any this year. My daughter asked if she should start planting. With my broken belly she does most of the heavy lifting now days. I counseled patience. Sure enough, a couple of days after Easter it snowed, and it stuck for the better part of a week. The only bulbs that decorated the yard after that were the grape hyacinth. The asparagus has been in the ground better than 10 years, and it just waited until the snow was gone and started up again. The blueberries looked around and seemed to say What? Huh? did something happen? I am mightily glad that I chose to plant the Nanking shrub cherries instead of the Hanson's, the Nanking are more cold hardy. I did lose some cherries I suspect, but the bushes have enough on them that I will have enough to use and to put up. Daughter3 has taken the weather lesson to heart.
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