When to Carve a Pumpkin in Arkansas
Arkansas pumpkin carvers get a rare gift: frost almost never shows up before Halloween.
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Arkansas pumpkin carvers get a rare gift: frost almost never shows up before Halloween.
Little Rock’s NOAA frost normals give Arkansas a 224-to-253-day growing season, running from mid-to-late March through early-to-mid November, with warmer and cooler counties on either side.
Arkansas sits at 34.73 degrees north latitude, measured at Little Rock, and on the longest day of the year the sun gives that spot 14 hours and 20…
Arkansas’s USDA zones 6b to 8a and mild Little Rock winters support apples if you choose a moderate-chill variety and a compatible pollinizer.
Arizona’s representative soil is sandy and alkaline with little organic matter, and simple tests show exactly what your own garden needs to grow well.
Phoenix’s reference station shows no reliable fall freeze at all, with a frost-free season that NOAA records as running a full 365 days.
If you garden in Phoenix or anywhere near the Arizona low desert, the day length on your longest day sits at 14 hours and 13 minutes.
Arizona’s low desert and high country need different apple varieties, chill hours and frost timing, so pick based on your elevation, not the state.
Frost arrives here around September 16 on average, a figure drawn from three decades of Calgary climate data.
Environment Canada’s Calgary-area normals put the mean frost-free window at about 118 days, running from May 21 in spring to September 16 in fall.