Comments on: Plant Hardiness Zones Explained! http://www.meadowwoodgarden.com/plant-hardiness-zones-explained/ Adventures in Vegetable Gardening Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Meadowwood Garden http://www.meadowwoodgarden.com/plant-hardiness-zones-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Meadowwood Garden Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:33:33 +0000 http://www.meadowwoodgarden.com/?p=969#comment-626 @Coldprairie -- It seems as if a climate change is happening, whether you believe that humans are responsible for accelerating it or not. Another indication is our local frost date comes about 2 weeks earlier than it did 20 years ago. It used to be you planted your garden on Memorial Day weekend, which is the last weekend in May. Now the frost date is May 13. @Coldprairie — It seems as if a climate change is happening, whether you believe that humans are responsible for accelerating it or not.

Another indication is our local frost date comes about 2 weeks earlier than it did 20 years ago. It used to be you planted your garden on Memorial Day weekend, which is the last weekend in May. Now the frost date is May 13.

]]> By: Coldprairie http://www.meadowwoodgarden.com/plant-hardiness-zones-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Coldprairie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:33:00 +0000 http://www.meadowwoodgarden.com/?p=969#comment-625 That's quite a visual difference over 20 yrs. You can clearly see the warm zones at the bottom expanding and all the zones shifting up. I wonder what exactly the new 'official' map will look like. Great post! That’s quite a visual difference over 20 yrs. You can clearly see the warm zones at the bottom expanding and all the zones shifting up. I wonder what exactly the new ‘official’ map will look like.

Great post!

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