I’ve done the calculations, and according to The Farmers Almanac, we can start planting our seeds indoors around March 2nd.
You can start your seeds inside SIX weeks before the last frost. And the last frost for us is around April 13 (the chart said April 13 for Springfield, IL and April 20 for Chicago, IL [...]
Posts Tagged ‘frost’
When to start planting.
Posted in Planting Guide, tagged frost, origami, pots, seeds, spring on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green tomatoes – do you have as many as we do?
Posted in Community Garden, Vegetables, tagged frost, green tomatoes, Recipes, tomatoes on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We visited the garden today for the first time after the “big frost” of Wednesday morning. (And yesterday was 76 degrees? WTF is going on!) and we just had buckets and buckets of green tomatoes left after the plants had long since wilted to the ground.
I picked all the tomatoes I could rescue from my [...]