Jim, indeed I do need one.. I'd actually like a digital weather station as well, since the only official data I can get daily are from 20 miles away!
Interesting stuff, Jane, and it would be interesting to have comparable figures for this climate.. the soil certainly is not above freezing 6 inches down, here, since it freezes solid much deeper than that.. any plants wanting to avoid freeze would have to go several feet down at least :)) (a very fast google suggests 10 feet deep as a frost line for Alberta, other sources suggest 4-6 feet, haven't found anything official--suffice to say, lots more than 6 inches here :) Cohan On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, J.E. Shields <[email protected]> wrote: > Cohen, > > You need a probe thermometer. Look in scientific supply house > catalogs. There are several, like Daigger and Fisher Scientific, for > instance. > > Jim Shields > > At 10:56 PM 4/15/2011 -0600, you wrote: > >....... > >I actually have no idea how cold it is/gets under our snow pack, which is > >much less and of shorter duration than yours, though considerably more and > >longer lasting than in places like Calgary (where, it should be noted, > >many things rated for much warmer zones survive in years with little snow > >cover at all.. of course often little is actually known about the > >hardiness of various species outside regions with the most gardeners), and > >varies considerably from one part of my property to another, within a few > >metres one way or another in some cases! Certainly nothing is growing > >under the snow here, with the soil solidly frozen before snow cover, > >generally, and for some time at least after melt as well! > >More forecast for tomorrow--looks like a late spring here this year! > >Cohan > >.......................... > > ************************************************* > Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 > P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ > Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA > Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 > >
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