65 today in central Pa. turned the compost pile.

It was 72 degrees here today, absolutely beautiful outside. It makes me really want to start my tomatoes but the weather fluctuates so quickly here that I should really wait another 2 weeks (cause god knows in a few days it might freeze again). Of course I start my seeds inside but the last frost date is the middle of march. Until then I'll just stare at the pictures on the seed packs.

This cabin fever is not so great, but I hope to start sometime soon too.

It's suppose to get up to 67 degrees tomorrow. WhoaHoo! However, it's going to be very short lived. :-(
So, I've been sorting my packets of seeds, looking through seed catalogs and plotting the garden.

-sigh-

WE hit 65...at one point i was barefoot and in shorts! Had to content myself with picking up the shingles that blew off in the 70MPH wind a couple weeks ago, and measuring out plots...Mother Natty is SUCH A TEASE! Still, it was a little weird having a tornado watch .

All the houseplants are out soaking up the free fertilizer from the overnite storms...back down to freezing tonight
;~( .

SPRING FEVER!! Supposed to hit 60 degrees today in MA. Snow storm next Monday...

58°F right now, here in tropical Coastal Connecticut. But yeah, I heard wintry stuff for Monday too.....who knows , They could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time LOL!!

chellestar, Where are you in N.C.? I ask because I'm outside of Charlotte and my LFD isn't until the later part of April. March seems a bit early.

http://www.victoryseeds.com/frost/

And last year we had a good frost around the 1st or 2nd week of April.

Greg

Hmmmm..... here's what I found also...different days, by a WEEK or MORE!!

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-707.html

I think I'll split it up the middle and aim for the 12th. If it's to cold, the 19th.

Greg

Greg
I live in Wilmington, nc (zone 8). Here we are a zone different than Charlotte. I used to live in Raleigh (also zone 7) and it is amazing the things I can get away with planting down here that would be considered "tropical" or anuals in Raleigh. Oleander grows like a weed down here but would die in the winters of Raleigh. Very little of NC is Zone 8 but I'm one of the lucky ones in it. I plan to put my tomatoes in late march but protect them by covering them with milk jugs until they get too big. We also had the frost Easter weekend last year but it was not as hard as else where in NC and our crops quickly recovered.

As for the differences on the two sites, I would trust the NC State Horticulture page but also note that it list the standard diviation in days in the second column. For example Wilmington has a standard diviation of 10 days meening it could/has ranged from 10 days before to 10 days after the given date. Either way, I just hope we don't have another hard, late frost :). I know it badly affected NC crops. Good luck and happy gardening
Amanda