Thanks for the thread. May I make a suggestion? I think it would be helpful if people who post replies would put their growing zone in their remarks. Thanks
If I remember correctly, I do believe we had a discussion about zone information last year.
The problem is that there are so many different variable even within each zone itself. Someone living in Zone 7 in Tennessee is going to have very different growing issues than someone, also in Zone 7 but living on the Atlantic coast in say Virginia (where I am) or Delaware (where I used to be)