What is your climate?

[897tgigvib]

Your zone?

Your typical last frost?

How much past last frost would you set out tomatoes?

How much past your last frost would you put Bean or Corn seeds in the ground?

Your typical first frost?

Have your first or last frost dates changed over the years?

Is your summer dry or is it rainy?

Is your winter dry or rainy or snowy or a mix?

 

[baymule]

It is HOT here!

Planting zone--8

Frost??????

Set out tomatoes end of March to mid-April.

Did I mention HOTTTTTTT???????????

Corn and beans, same as tomatoes.

First frost?? Uh.....um....... Thanksgiving or Christmas maybe??

HOT.

Summer is hot, followed by dry. Then HOTTER followed by SCORCHED!

Winter is cool, rainy, interspersed by beautiful sunny crisp days that makes me delighted to NOT be shoveling snow. It snows every 3-10 years and melts and is gone in 3 days or less. Just enough snow to get excited about and to give the wrecker drivers something to do.

Did I mention HUMID and HOT??

 

[MontyJ]

Zone 5

Typical last frost is May 15 but I have scambled to cover plants as late as May 26.

I set out tomatoes around May 21

Beans and corn go in around May 25 if the soil is warm enough.

First frost is usually early October, but once frosted on Sept. 30

Summer starts out rainy but drys up during late July through August

Winter is snowy and rainy

 

[897tgigvib]

Your zone? 8a, with moderation from lake, and forest clearing shade.

Your typical last frost? 15 apr to 8 jun

How much past last frost would you set out tomatoes? a week or 2

How much past your last frost would you put Bean or Corn seeds in the ground? 3 weeks or so

Your typical first frost? 15 oct to 1 dec

Have your first or last frost dates changed over the years? Yes. First frost is almost consistently later each year

Is your summer dry or is it rainy? Summer is dry. once every 10 or 15 years is a wet thunderstorm in july or august

Is your winter dry or rainy or snowy or a mix? Winter here is a good mix of wet, usually...hopefully. Rain, snow, mist, fog

 

[Mickey328]

Your zone? 5a or b, depending on what map you check. We're in the foothills so lots of microclimates here

Your typical last frost? "Typical"?? Hard to say...Sometimes mid Feb, sometimes Mid June. We generally plant around Memorial Day just to be save

How much past last frost would you set out tomatoes? About Memorial Day...but we're prepared to cover 'em!

How much past your last frost would you put Bean or Corn seeds in the ground? I plant the beans direct around the 3rd week of May. This year, I'm gonna start the corn inside about a month before that.

Your typical first frost? Again, no "typical" here but probably around the beginning of October.

Have your first or last frost dates changed over the years? I'm not sure...I haven't been here but about 10 years now and didn't pay attention much since I really only started gardening seriously in the last 3 or 4

Is your summer dry or is it rainy? Dry, dry, dry!

Is your winter dry or rainy or snowy or a mix? Depends on the year, but usually very dry. Our average annual precipitation here is just under 17 inches But it makes for a lovely lack of humidity that tempers the heat and makes breathing easier.

 

[hoodat]

San Diego is probably the best gardening spot in the world. We have year round gardens here. I try to keep my gardening timed so there is always something to harvest. Right now it's snap peas (I can harvest a gallon or so every couple of days. I also have mustard greens, turnips and Chinese greens whenever I need them. Some crops like beets and carrots will grow any time of year. Another month or so and I'll be starting my warm weather crops such as tomatos and peppers. The only problem is our dry Summers and the expensive water rates.

 

[digitS']

You might have thought, that this topic is right up my alley . . . It has taken me some time to gather my thoughts about it .

There has been some controversy over the last few years on Wikipedia about the term "Continental Mediterranean climate." No, I haven't joined in it but the current text says something about "the Spanish" using the definition. Well, I kinda identify with that.

It isn't the coastal Mediterranean climate here. It isn't what most people think of the Mediterranean, altho' it is dry - under 20" of precipitation, annually. And, it isn't very warm in winter - we've had the same snow around here since Christmas. Still, if my understanding of the climate in the mountains of northern Spain is valid: This climate could share the same classification.

Colorado? Not a lot different but it is down in the southeastern corner where the forests are almost exactly the same. The flora should be a strong indicator of climates, to my way of thinking. Most plant species have limited climate tolerance. Soommewhere, down there around Durango, there is a small corner of plant life that looks just like the hillside I can see from my frontdoor .

Until we have a gardener from that corner: we can just go by what Mickey says about climate in her corner of Colorado. Everything except that last frost "Sometimes mid Feb, sometimes Mid June." It couldn't be so variable here. You see, Colorado has a lot of really, really mountainous country and those ups & downs have a strong variable effect on temperatures. I don't live so far back into the mountains these days.

And changes? We have had some very lingering cool weather during the first part of the recent years. Summers continue to be dry. Autumns are mild and so are the winters recently.

Steve

♪ ♫ Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
. . . ♪ ♫
Well I never been to heaven
But I been to Oklahoma ♪ ♫

 

[Jared77]

Your zone?

5 though A or B depends on which map you read

Your typical last frost?

We fluctuate too, its not uncommon to get one in April. Memorial Day is the big planting weekend around here too.

How much past last frost would you set out tomatoes?

I'm a Memorial Day planter too maybe a week early but thats as early as I dare to go but I have my stuff ready to cover just in case.

How much past your last frost would you put Bean or Corn seeds in the ground?

Im usually 2 weeks before Memorial Day. Though I'm tempted to try some in peat pots and make cuts along the pot to let the roots out to help get a jump on the season.

Your typical first frost?

Middle to late October. We'll get some light ones, but usually a good hard frost is late Oct.

Have your first or last frost dates changed over the years?

Not really ours are pretty reliable.

Is your summer dry or is it rainy?

We usually have a good mix. We do pretty good here in the Mitten state.

Is your winter dry or rainy or snowy or a mix?

Snow. We have 4 legitimate seasons here.

 

[ducks4you]

OOOOOOOOUUUUU--what fun!!
Your zone?
5b-6a
Your typical last frost?
April 15th
How much past last frost would you set out tomatoes?
At LEAST 2 weeks, most often one month. My MIL (same zone, different town) would always plant her tomatoes in the garden on Mother's Day weekend.
How much past your last frost would you put Bean or Corn seeds in the ground?
About the same time. I watch my local farmers and try to plant when THEY do.
Your typical first frost?
October 15th.
Have your first or last frost dates changed over the years?
They vary a LOT. We had almost no frosts last March, then a rotten freeze 2 days in a row, mid April. We had had a frost as late as Memorial Day weekend.
Our last frosts and especially the winter has been coming later every year.
Is your summer dry or is it rainy?
Depends. Mostly, lately, it's been pretty dry. We had one summer, when I was operating my riding academy OUTSIDE, where it rained almost the entire month of July.
Is your winter dry or rainy or snowy or a mix?
Our typical winter is an average low of ~25 degrees F, and average high of ~40 degrees F. Usually it's a "season of mud."

 

[897tgigvib]

I think if we get enough of these, especially the info about

Is your winter starting later than it used to...

Ya see, It is looking to me that is one of the real climate changes happening in our lives, and it is an historical thing.

Our planet's weather cycles are constantly changing. Just that here, in our lives, we are able to observe it, to note it, and to write about.

We are gardeners. We have the view that is different even than large scale farmers. We grow lots of different things. Peas and Corn. Peppers and Lettuce. Beans and Beets. As gardeners, we observe this killing frost. We know if our Bean plants did not die until December from frost. We kick our own butts when we realize we could have planted those Tomatoes April first...just using example dates here...

What I'm seeing so far is that each year is wildly variable from the year before. There is only a small sample so far, but I see that I'm not the only one to notice that fall frost...is coming on average, later each year...

And I have gardened in wildly different climates.