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["Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>]

Rose,
I live in northern NYS and the soil will still be colder than the air temps.
Usually it is not the sun that eventually warms the soil up, but, warm
rains.  I check soil temps beginning the 1st of May for my Farm Customers
and I have seen soil temps as low as 38 to 42 degrees down 2 inches in the
soil and 32 to 38 down 4 inches down.

Hope this helps!

Peg Cook, Agronomist
Cook's Consulting

pegcook AT northnet.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Rose & Fred Lieberman <pyrite AT clarityconnect.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Help w/Soil temps and Larkspur


> There was a "larkspur" thread on another list.  I have a question for you
> all...
>
>
> I've heard and read that larkspur won't germinate at soil temps above 55.
>
> Are soil temps generally warmer than air temps?  In other words, if I
chose
> to direct seed larkspur the 2nd week in April when air temps might just
well
> be 55, would the soil temps be generally higher or lower?
>
> My thinking (here in upstate New York) is that soil is darker, it would
hold
> on to heat and therefore be warmer; but then I think that the soil is also
> wetter at that time of year and could easily be cooler, or at least not as
> warm as drier dark soil.
>
> I need help with my thinking here, please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rose
>
>
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