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Gardening in North Carolina: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in North Carolina: What the Season Actually Allows

North Carolina’s growing season isn’t one thing. It runs from roughly 208 to 230 frost-free days depending on where you sit between the mountains and the…

Gardening in Utah: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Utah: What the Season Actually Allows

Utah gardening comes down to elevation and water more than luck. A frost-free window that can run under six months, summer heat that stalls cool-season…

Gardening in Wisconsin: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Wisconsin: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Wisconsin means working inside a frost-free window of roughly 171 to 196 days, in a state that spans USDA zones 3b to 6a.

Gardening in Tennessee: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Tennessee: What the Season Actually Allows

Tennessee gardeners work with a frost-free window that runs roughly from mid-April to early November, sandwiched between a hardiness zone that shifts…

Gardening in Virginia: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Virginia: What the Season Actually Allows

Virginia’s growing season isn’t one thing. It runs about 220 to 250 days near the coast, weeks shorter in the mountains, and the state spans four USDA…

Gardening in West Virginia: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in West Virginia: What the Season Actually Allows

West Virginia gardeners work with a frost-free window that runs roughly six months at low elevation and considerably less in the mountains, inside a…

Gardening in South Dakota: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in South Dakota: What the Season Actually Allows

South Dakota gardeners work with one of the tighter frost-free windows in the country, and the difference between the eastern and western edges of the…

Gardening in South Carolina: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in South Carolina: What the Season Actually Allows

South Carolina’s growing window runs roughly eight to nine months depending on where you sit in the state, but the number that matters more than any…

Gardening in Saskatchewan: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Saskatchewan: What the Season Actually Allows

Saskatoon’s growing season runs about 123 days between an average last frost of May 18 and an average first frost of September 18, and that single…

Gardening in Rhode Island: What the Season Actually Allows

Gardening in Rhode Island: What the Season Actually Allows

Rhode Island’s growing season runs on three numbers: a hardiness zone that spans nearly two full USDA bands, a last spring frost date that lands in…

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