2024 Spring Gardening Planting Workshop

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The workshop will be on my private site so you need to sign up to watch it. We will get started at 2 pm Mountain Time - April 19, 2024

[@markcarruthers3313]

I’m curious…you and I are supposedly both in Hardiness Zone 6b with a last frost date of approximately May 15th. I’d be curious to know what the temperatures are of your raised beds and your in-ground gardens.
I took the temperatures of ours yesterday and the raised beds were about 53ºF and the garden was only barely 50ºF.
I have a hunch that our abilities to plant differ because of the effect of the jet stream and the fact that you do not have the same systems coming up from the Gulf of Mexico colliding with the jet stream coming from our NW, creating all kinds of precipitation, either as rain or the rare possibly of snow in April.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Yeah, that is the issue with using gardening zones as a guide. There is such a broad range of climate conditions even within zones. I don't often check my soil temps, usually just early in the season, but I did check this year and on a warm sunny day at the end of February my in-ground garden had a soil temp of 50-55. But we did have a very mild winter with more rain than snow so that was a bit unusual.

[@markcarruthers3313]

@@StoneyAcresGardening We had a mild winter, as well, with very little snow, but after we got 3+ inches of rain the middle of last week, our bed temp dropped about 4ºf and the garden at least 3º after the rain. Our problem is that everything is too wet to be planting. I could be wrong but I don’t think you get the Spring rains that we do which are the result of the systems coming up from the Gulf of Mexico.