Subject: RE: [permaculture] Re: Localized Plant DB
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:11:10 -0500
At 02:40 PM 9/11/02 +1000, you wrote:
many books and seed packets use simple or more complex systems that are
generally useful........but take no account of microclimate, elevation,
soil-moisture, pH etc, etc.
Seems to me the simplest way to handle this is to use the existing zone
data for plants and add a link to briefly out line the effect of slope,
mass, water etc in microclimate creation with figures to allow the user to
calculate their adjusted zone.
Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM