Being in tune with your local
climate is one of most important success factors for gardening. Climate change
has complicated the picture for vegetable gardeners, but there is a silver
lining. With the right knowledge at the right time, food gardeners can actually
grow more because of climate change.
Changing climate has in general
brought greater extremes of temperatures with warmer and longer summers and
often more extreme cold in winter, but on average, higher temperatures
throughout the year. Food gardeners are finding that choosing vegetable crops
with the methods they have always used is giving them results they don’t
expect.
…….Vegetables
are very sensitive to temperatures at planting and over their growing period.
Frost is a killer for many vegetables. If you plant too early or too late in
the season you may be hit with frost. If it is hotter earlier in the season,
there are many crops you could get underway which you would not normally grow
at that time and because of extended warm periods you could be staging your
crops for much greater production. There may be crops that you thought would
not grow at all, but are actually now very suitable for your climate.
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