Channel: Back To Reality

Category: Education

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Description: Help support our channel: patreon.com/backtoreality In this video, we collect as many details as we can about the growing conditions in our part of the world, and tell you how to do the same. That way, you’ll be better equipped to determine whether or not the results from our experiments could easily be replicated in your garden as well. --Our results-- Plant hardiness zone: 4B (USDA) or 5B (NRCan) Growing Season: April 29th - October 6th (159 days) Annual Precipitation: 889mm (388 during growing season) Elevation: 107m Sun: Full (11-16 hours per day) Soil PH: 6.0 - 7.5 Soil Composition: Sandy Loam Unwelcome Visitors: white tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, raccoons, groundhogs, squirrels, mice, voles, and crows, aphids, Japanese beetles, vine weevils, cutworms, Colorado potato beetles, squash bugs, grasshoppers, and cabbage worms, slugs, and snails. --Resources-- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb NRCan Plant Hardiness Zone Map planthardiness.gc.ca/index.pl?m=1&lang=en The Old Farmer's Almanac almanac.com Climate data for cities worldwide en.climate-data.org Plant Maps plantmaps.com Suggested by Marcel Zuppinger: timeanddate.com