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Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha
All over the state , air temps are running 20 degrees below normal and there's a snowpack of 2 feet on the eastern side where the blizzard hit hard. Soil temp is 31F at 4 inches.
Tomatoes and peppers are hopefully going in on time, but what about Spinach , lettuce, cabbage and the rest of the cole crops ? What will be the time delay in soil temps catching up to warmer air temps? What is the adjustment for this?
The ground will be mucky too. No complaining after 7 years of drought though.
I'm afraid that I'm going to miss pea season, darn darn darn!
- Lisa
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Funny you ask, I was wondering the same thing.
I usually plant pepper seeds on 1 March, tomatoes on 15 March. Based on the 12" of snow across the entire back yard and the colder temps 100 miles North of here where most of the plants will go, I delayed 1 week.
I usually move everything to the greenhouse around 1st week of April, but that's when I run the propane heater out there. I can't image the cost of propane this year when night time lows are STILL hovering around 0. The heat would run non-stop, we just had the 1000 gal propane tank filled and it's already at 45%....
To add insult to injury, didn't the groundhog predict an early spring??