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nugger
Joined: 03 Feb 2013 Posts: 27 Location: North Florida
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45421 Location: Essex
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45421 Location: Essex
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nugger
Joined: 03 Feb 2013 Posts: 27 Location: North Florida
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Well we normally get down to 15F which is about -8 but this year we have only got down to 28F, actually they forecast a freeze this morning but only got to 40 but supposed to be 28 in the morning, we shall see. In this part of the country its kinda the bermuda triangle for growing, if you pick your plants you can grow apple's, pear's bananas & citrus all together, weird hey. The peach's we grow req 450 hrs below 40, crest, florida king & queen are the types I have. We are only an hr from the Georgia border & Georgia is the peach state!
What brings us the cold weather is the jet stream & normally we get our last frost around now but last year it was 31 Jan. This year we have had 6 lots of 2 days at a time where it got down to around 28 for a few hrs but its enough for my papya's to drop there fruit but it hasn't killed the plants this year. You have to get your tomato plants in the ground as soon as the frost's have gone so that the fruit will set because if not the nights later on will be too hot for the fruit to set, 72F ! Hard to take it in after living in Britain, that now I am in a place where its too hot to grow tomato's lol. Go 2 hrs south to Tampa & its tropical, grow all kinda things but up here we got some granddaddy oaks, live oaks, I have one down my drive that is 18ft round, I know cos I put my arms round it 3 times to span it & thats a baby! looks so nice with the spanish moss. |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45421 Location: Essex
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nugger
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tahir
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tahir
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nugger
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yummersetter
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nugger
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yummersetter
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nugger
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Marches
Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 171 Location: Nr Peak District, England
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VM
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