I have attached a PDF to this post. The PDF shows temperatures in my area for 2023. It is broken down by the month and by week. For each week, I simply put down the highest and lowest temp that occurred.
Technically, I have a growing season that lasted about 250 days if you are just talking about frost free days. But, wonder how useful those 250 days are.
Most of the popular vegetables grow best in a 65 to 85 degree temperature range. I only had a few weeks last year that were reasonably close to that range.
How would you rate this level of difficulty?
Is this soft, easy compared to what you went through?
If you have any types of vegetables you would reccomend I try to grow based on these temperatures, please let me know.
Also, if you share a similar temperature profile, please let me know. I would like to have contacts to share seeds. We could call it the crappy climate corps or something cheesy like that.
I have provided a chart with my 2023 weather high and lows by the week. It is overlayed with temperature range needed for Cucurbita Moschata’s reproduction stage. This range is based on my research and experience. I have successfully found plants that produced outside of this range, but they are uncommon. These uncommon ones pretty much make up my entire 2023 Moschata harvest. To expand this crop’s temperature high and low tolerance is very important to me.
To get more specific, the germination and adolescent stages have a bigger temperature range than 70 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. I am very certain most varieties struggle to reproduce above 90 degrees. I am less confident about the below 70 degree mark.
I believe most varieties need about 60 days to reach reproductive stage and another 30 to 60 days to complete fruit maturity. This has been my experience so far in 10 to 14 daylight hours at low elevation.
As a bonus, I have provided the temperature range for the country of Colombia. Do you notice anything odd about the similarities?
Thank you for the ideas. I am looking for ways to grow more food I want to eat and breed year round.
I like gardening too much to skip the summer. It’s fun to me even in the struggle.
I remember last year when I had a bunch of ground cherry seedlings in little seed trays. I failed to keep them hydrated for a period of time. I lost almost all of them except 2 or 3. It was exciting to harvest the first fruits from those survivors. This is the essence of the joy for me, to screw everything up and be rewarded for it.
I think that temperatures graph it is very similar to mine. Hot and humid.
Yea, I enjoy a lot in the summer. It is true that you have to do garden work in early or later in the day due to extreme hot in summer, but there are a lot of plants that like the extreme hotness.
Here historically tomatoes and melons have been cultivated in no water, dry farming fields, and they still produce fruits. In local seed packets when you grow them in a dry farming context it is always recommended that plants be sowed much further apart to take advantage of soil moisture.
For Solanum Lycopersicum or tomato, the optimum temperature for the reproduction phase is 65 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit – according to my research. Please push back on these numbers if they are not valid according to your experience. I do not consider myself an expert on tomato by any means – only 1 year under my belt for tomato.
If my research figures are accurate, then I have a long ways to go to subjugate the tomato to this hot-hole I call home.
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