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Article #167Re: Summer Winds and Sales (was Re: heirloom tomatoes)
From: Jon Shemitz
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:15
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:15
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Elena wrote: > I have another (rookie) seedling question. When is the latest I can plant > seeds or seedlings around S.F. Bay (Marin County) and actually get them to > grow? I have the tools and seeds ready to go, but it has been raining every > day I'm not at work. > BTW, the seeds are for a few different herbs, and some flowers (Mexican > sunflower, thyme, bee balm, etc.) Thanks! You've got plenty of time yet. For example, I never put my basil in the ground until June (or, maybe, late May) - before then, days are too short and cold for it to really thrive. While we have a very long frost free season, there's no need to pop things in the ground as soon as it drys. Like basil, many plants will not thrive in the early, short and cool days, and then will have established a pattern of non-thriving. Most of the "right after last frost" type of advice comes from short season areas with much greater temperature swings than we get. We usually have nice warm days well into October, when some of the short season places are already getting frosts. -- programmer, author http://www.midnightbeach.com and father http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa31,329620f99a2012d4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa31,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-20 13:35:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn51feed!worldnet.att.net!129.250.175.17!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews4 From: Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com> Newsgroups: ba.gardens Subject: Re: Summer Winds and Sales (was Re: heirloom tomatoes) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:15:13 -0700 Organization: Midnight Beach Lines: 26 Message-ID: <408584D1.8E441057@midnightbeach.com> References: <Ru3ec.4497$k05.4271@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <c5c8e8$3t1d$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> <PJiec.5847$A_4.1144@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <c5n9pv$3lfo4$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> <408032FE.422E1EB4@midnightbeach.com> <c5rnac$53gg7$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> <40844623.E1A0EAC@midnightbeach.com> <c63t35$ilk$1@sand.ccsf.cc.ca.us> Reply-To: jon@midnightbeach.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p-994.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en