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[Henry <treehugger53ah@yahoo.com>]

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The first-serve I joined asked us to include these five things in our 
signature: name, city, state, country, and growing zone.

--Henry Fieldseth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Zone 4


     On Thursday, August 18, 2022, 07:15:05 AM CDT, Road's End Farm 
<organic87@frontiernet.net> wrote:  
 
 
> On Aug 17, 2022, at 11:45 PM, Devin Smith via nafex 
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> 
> Your description of your local climate sounds very familiar indeed. Quite 
> similar story here. Historically I’ve read we had in the neighborhood of 
> 130 frost free days on a good site in my neck of the woods. I’ve been here 
> for 16 years and most years we’ve had more like 150 days. A couple of 
> exceptional years we’ve had probably 165. I figure on mid-May to mid-Oct. 
> for tender things, with a killing frost occurring a week or two on either 
> side. Most things need to be picked by Nov. 1 at the latest, as we’ll have 
> low-mid twenties by then, and it’s very overcast, so not much ripening 
> potential to wring out of those short days.

When I first moved to this area, in the 1970's, there'd sometimes be frost in 
September, and almost always by mid-October. The first time it didn't frost 
till November, I was astonished. Now first frost is routinely late October or 
into November, and I haven't seen a September frost in years.


>  I have some really nice native perennial Physalis that you might like. I 
>love the fruit but unfortunately have some pest issues that seem to put a 
>big dent in my harvest lately. 

And there's part of the downside -- pests moving out of what used to be their 
area, and/or producing more generations.

Glad to see this list alive -- another of my farm email groups just 
resurrected itself, too.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

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Not sure whether you noticed, but my location and zone are indeed in my 
signature.

Do I need to add USA, or do you think people are going to realize that from 
NY?

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




> On Aug 18, 2022, at 10:16 AM, Henry via nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> 
> wrote:
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> It is helpful to readers to know where "here" is.