Climate Change Means Humans Must Change Their Ways With Their Climate



What permits us to attempt to grow this early in the year is the battle between the late cold artic air and the warming sea water.

 I created some maps below to show how even during the worst conditions nature can bring, this area has been very friendly to this plant, and this year appears to be no exception. 


As the warm water battles and wins the artic battle earlier in each year, one can get started Feb 1st and as long as the plants don't super hard freeze, they just have to wait for the sun to reappear some 5-10 days later and explosive growth occurs soon after, that has been the past and I jumped a half a week early this year and so far the results are promising.


So here are some maps to show once again this battle between the cold artic air, and the warm southern waters. 

Some heat vs cold maps in feb 2021.




So just take notice of this years battle between heat and cold and who pushes who back and the recovery time. Each push of warm air extends further northward with each attempt, this was the apex of this push by the cold air this year, we are not expected to get frost for the next 7-10 days and even if we do, the plant will be able to sustain this short duration snap as it did below during the morning of the 17th below.













So now we have 3 days of warm sunny weather that should get these plants the start they need to produce an abundance of product in 6-8 weeks.


I've also started some cauliflower, basil, and marjoram in this seed starter and they are responding well.

I'll transplant these maybe once before they go into their final location.




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