Capital Journal Building Section, Friday, March 10, 1950 13
How to Win in Garden
Gamble With Jack Frost
Temperature is the most im-1 Soil can be improved, water can
portant limiting factor in all be supplied artifically. But
outdoor horticultural activities.! planters are at the mercy of the
gAFTO JUNE 1 T .
This U. S. Department of Agriculture map shows dates on
-which the chances of damage from frost are only one to ten.
temperature.
A key-day in the spring, which
governs all operations, is the
date when in your locality it be
comes relatively safe to set out
tender plants. In other words,
the frost-proof date. This does
not mark the beginning of gar
dening, because seeds of hardy
vegetables can be sown as soon
as the ground has thawed out
and become dry enough to work.
This is usually 30 days before
the front-proof date.
The term frost-proof, more
over, is hardly correct. The
weather is too uncertain for that.
There is always the chance that
in an exceptional year, a frost
will occur long after the aver
age time and many tender things
will be nipped. But some risk
must always be accepted in gar
dening. On the basis of long experi
ence, the weather bureau has
prepared a map which divides
the country into zones, and es
tablished for each zone a date
on 'which the chances are 10
to 1 against a killing frost oc
curring in the spring. The map
accompanies this discussion.
Look up your location and talk
to your gardening neighbors
about their practice, and you
will find it easy to decide on the
date to accept as safe from frost
in your garden.
Of course some years you may
win with a long-shot and get a
crop from an early planting of a
tender crop because of an excep
tionally warm spring. If you
want to figure the odds against
this kind of chance taking, you
may estimate that the risk of los
ing tender plants is exactly dou
bled, when they are set out two
weeks before the frost-proof
date.
There is nothing to be gained,
moreover, by taking this risk
with plants which have been
started indoors, since they may
be seriously injured by a hard
frost which does not kill them,
and always do best when they
continue growing without a
check.
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