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August 8, 2014

Determining Your Growing Season

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  1. Marietjie Van der Walt says

    November 18, 2021 at 5:58 pm

    Luckily I live in a frost free area. My growing season starts around mid August to end April. I always look on the back of the seed packet and have sown beetroot seeds beginning May to middle May and harvested a nice crop. Don’t know if the walls around the yard give enough protection against the colder weather as well. The past winter I lost some of my crops as the winter was much colder as the previous 5 to 6 years but luckily no frost.

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  2. Kerry Burrows says

    April 21, 2020 at 1:52 pm

    My growing season starts mid September and ends towards the end of April. We are in a frost area and also get back frost on occasion. This is a challenge and means a lot of careful planning to ensure we have veggies from the garden year round.

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  3. Anthony Smida says

    March 18, 2020 at 8:57 am

    I have set my grow season to all year round. Always having food and medicines.

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  4. Nicolene Fonternel says

    October 18, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    We get late frost. So my growing season starts from late September till May the next year. We also get black frost when almost everything outside will die. Many of my more sensitive plants is in pots that I bring inside in winter.

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  5. Shani Moushon says

    September 2, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    I live in Illinois and I found out my growing season is 156 days. Yet since I am planning to up pots I can bring most of my plants inside if needed. I am not sure exactly what I am planting so I have no idea of the challenges this growing season will bring….

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  6. Louise Malan says

    August 29, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    I live in a area with heavy frost and have to cover almost everything in winter. Before starting to plant anything in spring I always have to check the last expected frost date for my area. Recently I have started planting sensitive plants in big pots and then move them into the greenhouse in winter.

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  7. Marietjie Van der Walt says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    I really enjoyed this lesson. I live in a frost free area but never thought about the average night temperatures and the influence of it on the plants.

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