Load of Shananigans 🦥 ✍️Jul 8, 2023
JL Johnson 

Hey, gardeners. YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GROW STUFF!

Here in #Zone6A we are 86 days past our average last frost. And 107 days to our average first frost. So we quite literally have more 2023 growing time ahead of us than behind. Go plant stuff this weekend! Today we’re doing bush ‘n pole beans, marigolds (to help the tomatoes) and so many sunflowers.

ALSO: It’s easier to grow stuff into fall than into summer.

#GrowYourOwn #gardening

Jul 8, 2023 at 1:53pmWeb
Show threadAndrewJul 8, 2023
@User47 a good reminder! My pole beans all dried up in the drought weeks ago. Maybe I should try again. Also, I've got to start using this #zone6a hashtag :)
Show threadgeographileJul 8, 2023
@User47 for our front yard I plant in the fall so it gets good rain all winter, this is our dormant season midsummer.
Show threadDriftlessRootsJul 9, 2023
@User47 Just started my first fall crop: Napa cabbage
Show threadJL Johnson Jul 9, 2023
@DriftlessRoots fun! Kimchi in your future?
Show threadDriftlessRootsJul 9, 2023
@User47 Yes but don’t let my husband know. He doesn’t like the smell 😂
Show threadJL Johnson Jul 9, 2023
@DriftlessRoots
Show threadcohanJul 9, 2023
@User47 that's a lotta frost free days! lol (I can get more in a good year, here, but it could be 90 or less some years).
Show threadJL Johnson Jul 9, 2023

@cohanf I feel like a more narrow window would force me to take growing more seriously.

…Or I’d still be a slacker and be forced to just give up 😂

Show threadcohanJul 9, 2023
@User47 one of my key adaptations-- in large part cuz it's the plants that interest me anyway-- I grow a lot of natives, alpines, other hardies-- they start flowering long before end of frost, and continue long after! So in fact, I pay very little attention to the frost free dates..lol