{"id":2823,"date":"2012-04-20T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:24:04","slug":"growing-season-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/growing-season-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Season update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We’ve been collecting temperature data from our weather station<\/a> for some years now.
\nWe’ve analyzed this to determine the number of days our growing season is.
\nSome crops can survive -3 deg C “heavy frost” nights while most can survive -1 deg C “light frost” nights.<\/p>\n

\nActual Growing days <\/strong>
\nYear\t#days between light frost #days between heavy frost
\n2003\t172\tApr30-Oct23\t194\tApr24-Nov08
\n2004\t156\tMay08-Oct11\t201\tApr16-Nov03
\n2005\t156\tMay17-Oct20\t215\tMar13-Oct21
\n2006\t\tno data
\n2007\t147\tMay18-Oct12\t153\tMay13-Oct13
\n2008\t154\tMay05-Oct06\t160\tApr30-Oct07
\n2009\t129\tMay13-Sep19\t179\tApr17-Oct12
\n2010\t119\tJun13-Oct10\t142\tJun11-Nov01
\n2011\t167\tApr22-Oct06\t167\tApr22-Oct06
\n2012
\nTo date we had -3 “heavy frost” last night, April 19th, 2012.<\/p>\n

A note that we are far from Lake Ontario, which is a huge moderating influence on temperature in the spring and fall. Hence our growing season is much shorter than say, Kingston Ontario. Typically in the summer, days are +5deg C and nights are -5deg C over those in Kingston.
\nThis in part comes from very thin soil, a lot of exposed limestone, and the Canadian Shield just a short distance north of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been collecting temperature data from our weather station for some years now. We’ve analyzed this to determine the number of days our growing season is. Some crops can survive -3 deg C “heavy frost” nights while most can survive -1 deg C “light frost” nights. Actual Growing days Year #days between light frost #days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}