Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Then here's a question: which crops do well either way? What can you do to
cope with those extremes? Few climates are always perfect and predictable,
tho yours sounds pretty wild. 

My concern now is the ground may stay frozen too long in the spring and
delay early snow peas, onions, etc. and not get a jump on the market. I got
plastic cover over several beds but not before snow and a very hard freeze.
 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/29/2007 at 11:20 AM McBride & Putnam wrote:

>Sounds as if you live in Oklahoma.  I don't know why they bother trying
>to keep averages around here.  There is no average.  One year we might get
>an early freeze around the 1st of October or in late September; the next
>year it might be late December before we get a freeze.  Some years we get
>barely a trace of snow, other years we get 10 to 12 inches dumped on us in
>March or April.  Usually we can count on hot, humid summers with temps. in
>the upper 90's but sometimes the push up to 110 and every now and again we
>get a summer that temps. barely hit 90 most of the summer. One thing you
>can pretty much count on, there's either too much rain or not enough.
>
>Claudia
>
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: E. E. Mitchamore Jr 
>  To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing 
>  Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:12 PM
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>  After the last two years I don't know if it's POSSIBLE to adapt to our
>weather.  2006 growing season was the hottest on record and totally
>without rain.  2007 was the coolest in 50 years, with record rainfall. 
>That said, I'm growing hot-weather plants in 1 gal. pots in the Hoop
>House, and planting them when it's finally warm enough.
>
>  E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>  www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
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>    Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 3:12 PM
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