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Fall planting temps

bea (zone 9a -Jax area)

11 years ago

This fall I plan to grow cool season vegetables for the first time but at what temps? For instance U of FL charts say to plant carrots and beets in September and cauliflower in August. But August temps in my area are stil around 90 in the daytime and September around 85 - hardly cool weather. So my question is at what temps do you all plant the cool veggies, then I can work backwards to figure out when to start them inside.

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Carol - Zone 10a Florida
11 years ago
I have been struggling for years with planting guides and have had a lot of failures; however, lasts week I found this site by The Old Farmer's Almanac and just received an email this week telling me what to plant within the next two weeks.

They use the closest weather station to your zip code, or city and send free weekly notices what to plant. Here in Florida every area is different and the Zone planting guides never worked well as we are sort of an island on the west coast. Here is the web site and good luck with it: http://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-dates/FL/Jacksonville
bea (zone 9a -Jax area) thanked Carol - Zone 10a Florida
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