Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Not that cold Paul, we have had no major frost yet. Plants like yacon 
and tropaieolum are still green and they die off as soon as temperatures 
drop below zero C for more than a day. Of course we worked outside today 
and it felt cold with a temperature of between 3 and 5 C but with a 
relative air humidity of over 90 % and a bit of a breeze while standing 
still.

They call this a lazy wind locally because it cuts right through you 
instead of going around you. But this has to do with air humidity more 
than with the actual wind force I think. In another life I experienced 
temperatures of below -25 C in drier mountains and that did not feel 
half as cold as a mild 5 degrees in Ireland.

It is not a big problem as long as you keep using your muscles to keep 
your core body temperature up. A few hours of log splitting with an ax, 
moving  pile of stones between 2 and 50 kilos and some vigorous tree 
pruning kept me comfortable with three tin layers of clothes on the 
upper body. Last week with the temperature only slightly higher I had to 
get rid of two layers while working.

John

On 06/12/14 02:10, herb farmer wrote:
> John I see on Twitter you're getting cold there.
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