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To: SunkenCiv
It was 82 here, and I don’t care why. ;’)

It was 79 in the house last night and I turned my air conditioner on, I live in central Illinois and this is the earliest in my memory that we've turned it on.

Our Forsythia bushes are already in bloom, another "earliest ever" for here.

I briefly considered starting my garden but thought better of it, it could still snow in April.

I set out my garden on May first one year, went on two week vacation and came back to a dead garden. We had gotten a hard frost on May 10th.

10 posted on 03/18/2012 5:04:27 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: Graybeard58

The cool-weather crops can be planted early here, without too much concern, provided they’re on higher ground (frost settles low); and fast-growers such as sweet corn are often tall enugh there’s no worries. Radishes are a 30-day crop anyway (and how many radishes does one need?), and the various cole crops are quite hardy.


14 posted on 03/18/2012 7:10:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: Graybeard58

You can start peas, lettuce, onions, and spinach, and any other cold weather crop. Most of them can take a freeze.

I got those in already, last week, here in CNY, (Central NY).


18 posted on 03/18/2012 4:38:51 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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