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Growing Season Update November 2014

Wow that cold snap hit everyone. January weather in Mid November. How weird is that, not only did it raise the heating bills for everyone, cause some to suffer the car won’t start syndrome it also greatly affected plant and animal life.

Even many of the plants in the hoop-houses suffered premature deaths and those that didn’t die and now believing that they went through the winter and when it warms up they are going to say Ahh!! it is now spring, time for me to go to seed.

The plants that will do that are what are considered bi-annuals. Those plants have a two year growing season, the first is growth the second is going to seed. They don’t follow a calender they react to the temperature changes and the length of day.

The hoop-houses are not heated and rely on the sunshine to warm them up and double layers of plastic to hold the heat in during cold nights.

For those of us that were relying on a great winter production year will have to wait a little longer. It has been told that this winter is going to be as bad as last years winters. We are all hoping that is not the case, but with the premature November Cold Snap things don’t look good. Mother Nature Wins out again.