{"id":7831,"date":"2017-10-17T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2017-10-17T06:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:11:00","slug":"killing-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/killing-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331-224x299.jpg 224w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170618_112331-767x1023.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat time of year again&#8230; -3C and falling this morning.  This is cold enough to kill off any garden plant still standing above ground.  We harvest peppers the day before. Phew!<\/p>\n<p>The  years of growing season with heavy frost (we define as -3C or colder) have been:<br \/>\nYear   #weeks   #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<br \/>\n2013\t24\t168<br \/>\n2014\t21\t147<br \/>\n2015\t21\t147<br \/>\n2016\t20\t138<br \/>\n2017\t23\t160<\/p>\n<p>min\t20\t138<br \/>\naverage\t24\t168<br \/>\nmedian\t24\t163<br \/>\nmax\t32\t222<br \/>\nstddev\t4\t24<\/p>\n<p>The years of growing season with light frost (-1C) where plants can survive if covered have been:<\/p>\n<p>Year\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<br \/>\n2013\t18\t125<br \/>\n2014\t18\t124<br \/>\n2015\t20\t140<br \/>\n2016\t19\t130<br \/>\n2017\t20\t143<\/p>\n<p>min\t17\t119<br \/>\naverage\t20\t144<br \/>\nmedian\t21\t145<br \/>\nmax\t25\t176<br \/>\nstddev\t2\t17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That time of year again&#8230; -3C and falling this morning. This is cold enough to kill off any garden plant still standing above ground. We harvest peppers the day before. Phew! The years of growing season with heavy frost (we define as -3C or colder) have been: Year #weeks #days 2003 28 198 2004 29 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7832,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}