Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Don Bowen <don.bowen@earthlink.net>]

Tradingpost wrote:
> Don, I've added that map to my permanent links. I see we're still in zone 6 
> in NM. It'd be nice to have a similar map showing change in annual 
> precipitation. We know it's been getting more desertified in this area for 
> decades. Years ago this was an agricultural county, now nothing grown without 
> irrigation.
>   
That would be an interesting map. The data is available so maybe someone 
has done one, maybe at NOAA. 

I have a friend in the Ozarks that has kept accurate climate records for 
the last 22 years.  Her records show an increase in precipitation but it 
is noisy data.  She sent me the data for first and last frosts and I did 
several plots.  All show an increase in the growing season over 22 years 
with the biggest change being the date of the last frost. 

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
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