{"id":3820,"date":"2012-11-26T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2012-12-03T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:56:30","slug":"summer-growing-days-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/summer-growing-days-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"summer growing days revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons.<br \/>\n1) In the fall, a light frost really does not affect anything as all of the above ground veg have already been harvested.  Only root veg like carrots, beets, turnips, etc are still in the ground.  We generally harvest those shortly after the 1st heavy frost.<br \/>\n2) In the spring, you have to predict when the last frost will  be, but that in conjunction with  time off work to plant means we usually don&#8217;t even plant in the ground (or transplant out of the greenhouse) until the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>The original definition of light frost growing days:<\/p>\n<p>Actual Growing days between  light frost (-1C) dates<br \/>\nYear\t#weeks\t#days<br \/>\n2003\t25\t176<br \/>\n2004\t22\t156<br \/>\n2005\t22\t156<br \/>\n2006\tno data\tno data<br \/>\n2007\t21\t147<br \/>\n2008\t22\t154<br \/>\n2009\t18\t129<br \/>\n2010\t17\t119<br \/>\n2011\t21\t149<br \/>\n2012\t23\t162<\/p>\n<p>The new definition  of growing days using heavy frost:<\/p>\n<p>Actual Growing days between  heavy frost(-3C) dates<br \/>\nYear\t#weeks\t#days<br \/>\n2003\t28\t198<br \/>\n2004\t29\t201<br \/>\n2005\t32\t222<br \/>\n2006\tno data\tno data<br \/>\n2007\t22\t153<br \/>\n2008\t23\t160<br \/>\n2009\t26\t179<br \/>\n2010\t20\t143<br \/>\n2011\t24\t167<br \/>\n2012\t24\t165<\/p>\n<p>some simple statistics:<\/p>\n<table border=1>\n<tr>\n<td>stat<\/p>\n<td>light frost days <\/p>\n<td>weeks   <\/p>\n<td>heavy frost days<\/p>\n<td>weeks<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>min\t<\/p>\n<td>119 <\/p>\n<td>17\t\t<\/p>\n<td>143\t<\/p>\n<td>20<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>average\t<\/p>\n<td>150\t<\/p>\n<td>21\t\t<\/p>\n<td>176\t<\/p>\n<td>25<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>max\t<\/p>\n<td>176\t<\/p>\n<td>25\t\t<\/p>\n<td>222\t<\/p>\n<td>32<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>stddev\t<\/p>\n<td>17\t<\/p>\n<td>2\t\t<\/p>\n<td>26\t<\/p>\n<td>4<br \/>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In the fall, a light frost really does not affect anything as all of the above ground veg have already been harvested. Only root veg like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}