I thought hardiness zones were tied to the USDA, but that's hella cold for freedom units heading into May. Metric precipitation doesn't help, lol.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
38 points (93.2% liked)
Gardening
3559 readers
9 users here now
Your Ultimate Gardening Guide.
Rules
- Be respectful and inclusive.
- No harassment, hate speech, or trolling.
- Engage in constructive discussions.
- Share relevant content.
- Follow guidelines and moderators' instructions.
- Use appropriate language and tone.
- Report violations.
- Foster a continuous learning environment.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Hahah it’s Celsius, Canada loves blending everything, so not surprised they didn’t make their own or just ripped the usda, but I think the usda covers Canada in the maps I was looking at.
How the hell have I never seen this glorious thing before in my life.
One caveat though, sports speeds are usually imperial from what I’ve seen.
Glorious? This thing is disgusting lol. A cultural abomination.
Maybe dependent on the sport? I can only speak for hockey, but I always remember slapshots measured in km/h. Makes sense if imperial is used on US-centric sports tho. Do we really need to add more branches to this chart 😮💨
As a brit, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Canada uses kilometres instead of miles (we use miles / yards here and it's daft).
Then I reached the company gym and saw everything was in lbs :(
I fucking hate how we measure long distances in miles, but short ones in metres, but human heights in feet, and buy cooking ingredients in grams but measure them in ounces, and human weights are in fucking stone, and liquids are in litres unless its milk or beer which are in pints, and...
hahaha yep
never a dull moment
I work in Construction, so most stuff is designed to be multi market, so hardly anything is in metric or it’s “specialty”.
Canada has its own zone hardiness map. It takes many more factors into account than the American one does.
Huh til, I guess I never gave its much thought since according to that my place is the same in both hardiness maps!
I always knew there was multiple factors, I didn’t know the us was so simple.
I only found out this year. CBC was talking about it this spring when the US updated theirs and said Canada was working on a new one but it would take longer because it had more variables. Still waiting for the update...
8 degrees Fahrenheit is too cold for rain though isn't it?
Depends on the pressure I think. At atmospheric pressure, yes.
I don't think being at a lower pressure would mean it rains. The phase change diagram of water shows solid for everything below the freezing point, until you hit gas, so it would just stay in the cloud as water vapor.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_diagram_of_water_simplified.svg
Pretty sure you wouldn't be growing anything in a garden in that environment anyway.
You're right. Thank you, I'll never make that mistake again.
you better not or we'll be coming for you
yay.
Got my Lillie’s mulched up atleast though.
Meanwhile heading into an Australian winter...
you be needin a hoop house.
Most crops can make the season if you start early, but gourds are nigh but silly without a hothouse. Definitely thinking of making one or atleast a greenhouse to start earlier.
Also, it may snow 2 feet on May 24, so whatever you use better hold that if you’re foolish enough to plant early.
ouch. have to say that gourds are awesome. Im partial to acorn squash myself.
Would love to grow some pumpkins for Halloween for the kiddos, but first frost is also mid Sept….
man. where im at winter is almost disappearing. not sure how I feel about it. well outside of the terror of how unnatural it is.
Soooo, too soon for starting a garden?
I won’t start hardening off my starts until the middle of May.
8a here. We'll be between 7 at the lowest and 23 at the highest for the next 15 days. Looks like a fair number of rainy days as well.
It's pushing 90F here in 8a. The maps still call it 8b but we've seen 12F the past two years.
It can get up to about that temperature before the end of May, but still frost risk… fml hahaha