{"id":7078,"date":"2023-12-17T17:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2023-12-17T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T22:46:24","slug":"garden-zone-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2023\/12\/17\/garden-zone-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Zone Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am sorry to whomever in the government think this was a good idea to change 7b to 8a. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t see it as real. Nope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything all along we were 7a\/7b kind of thing, but not hedging towards 8 at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s garbage, 8 was southern Georgia. It’s very hot there. We are not 8, no freaking way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we get a Winter, and Spring, and Summer and Autumn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At any rate, using the USDA site’s map … they say we live in 8b. Hahahaha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can grow herbs, some of them over winter fine, sometimes they don’t. Most things that can grow in colder climes grow for me fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year it was cold early, cold enough for several days in October to use the fireplace<\/a> in our house. This hadn’t happened before. We had first freeze in October in 2022. Usually it was Nov 15th, pretty much right about then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year 2023 October 31st 32 degrees for a low. 29 degrees the next day. And the day after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2, 2023 1st fireplace use for the 2023\/2024 winter season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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November 2, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My garden died back month ago now, the few perennial year long usuals doing ok, just you-know ok. All the other stuff is gangly and lots of dead branches, mint, and lemon balm, and bee balm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 killed my rosemary that had gone on for at least 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 I got two new rosemary plants, so far they are still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it seem to me things are not as hot and colder earlier and colder overall. I don’t know what this world is coming to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am sorry to whomever in the government think this was a good idea to change 7b to 8a. I don’t see it as real. Nope. If anything all along we were 7a\/7b kind of thing, but not hedging towards 8 at all. It’s garbage, 8 was southern Georgia. It’s very hot there. 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