It is time to start planning and purchasing seeds for your spring and summer vegetable garden. There are some terrific garden tools online. Let me recommend two. Using those two you will be able to create you very own spring vegetable garden planning calendar. Planning season is here. Planting season is near.
National Climatic Data Center - first and last frost/freeze dates by zip code.
Skippy's Vegetable Garden Planning Calendar - Plan your gardening year by last frost date.
To start you will need the last frost/freezing date for your area.
Go to the National Climatic Data Center and choose your state from the pull down menu.
There you will see a chart. Above is the top of the chart for Pennsylvania. Find the closest reporting station to your town. As an example, take a look at Bradford Regional Airport. The first column to the right of the name of the reporting station contains three temperatures in Fahrenheit(F), 36, 32 & 28. Beside each of those temperatures is a row of dates. Spring frost date is our concern. The third column from 32ºF is, for all intents and purposes, the last frost date. That column designates the date on which there is a 10% chance that the temperature will descend below 32ºF. Which for Bradford is June19.
If you open another browser window and navigate to Skippy's Vegetable Garden Planner you will see Skippy asks for the latest frost date for your area. Residents of Bradford would enter the date, 06/19/2013, into the field.
You will place your last frost date into the field, then click the "Generate spring planting calendar" button to create your customized calendar.
National Climatic Data Center - first and last frost/freeze dates by zip code.
Skippy's Vegetable Garden Planning Calendar - Plan your gardening year by last frost date.
To start you will need the last frost/freezing date for your area.
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| Source:NOAA |
Go to the National Climatic Data Center and choose your state from the pull down menu.
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| Source:NOAA |
If you open another browser window and navigate to Skippy's Vegetable Garden Planner you will see Skippy asks for the latest frost date for your area. Residents of Bradford would enter the date, 06/19/2013, into the field.
You will place your last frost date into the field, then click the "Generate spring planting calendar" button to create your customized calendar.
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| Source:http://bioarray.us/Skippy's%20planting%20calendar.html |
Above is my planning calendar. As you can see I have just about a week to purchase onion seeds before they need to go into the ground. Don't delay, get your calendar today.
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