When to Carve a Pumpkin in New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s mean first fall frost lands somewhere between October 13 and October 26, arriving anywhere from around five to eighteen days before…
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New Hampshire’s mean first fall frost lands somewhere between October 13 and October 26, arriving anywhere from around five to eighteen days before…
New Hampshire’s growing season is short, but its summer days are long enough to satisfy most long-day onion varieties.
New Brunswick’s growing season wraps up early enough that pumpkins are usually long off the vine before Halloween ever shows up on the calendar.
Onions bulb by the clock, not the thermometer, and Moncton’s clock reads 15 hours and 34 minutes of daylight on the longest day of the year.
Nevada’s mean first fall frost swings from around December in the low desert around Las Vegas to months earlier at elevation in places like Reno or…
Onions bulb by day length, not by heat — and Nevada’s numbers put most of the state in intermediate-day territory, with a narrow band of short-day…
Nebraska’s mean first fall frost lands somewhere between October 15 and October 26, which is well ahead of Halloween on October 31.
At 41.31 degrees north, Nebraska sits in the long-day onion belt, but the state stretches far enough that a gardener near its northern edge should…
Around Billings, the mean first fall frost lands somewhere between October 1 and October 14, which puts it two to four weeks ahead of Halloween in most…
Missouri’s mean first fall frost lands somewhere between October 18 and October 29, and that single fact should drive your carving date more than any…