Comments on: The Gospel According to NASA http://www.joabbess.com/2010/03/16/the-gospel-according-to-nasa/ Energy Change for Climate Control Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carol isaac http://www.joabbess.com/2010/03/16/the-gospel-according-to-nasa/comment-page-1/#comment-657 carol isaac Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:41:09 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4702#comment-657 I am running into something new, gardening fundamentalists. We have here in Seattle a wonderful book on what to grow and when in this unusual little section of the country. It is the gardening good book... except it was written when our climate was different just a few decades ago. I am learning that it is better to experiment than follow the book. We not only had a January this year that showed March day temperatures and April night temperatures, but it is continuing to be strange. Consequently, I directly sowed a dozen different seed types as much as two months early.... everything came up... and so far is maintaining. Now I find the experts scorning me for not following 'the book'. I figure that in the Northwest U,S., this year every outdoor plant was in an experiment. Adapt, Carol I am running into something new, gardening fundamentalists. We have here in Seattle a wonderful book on what to grow and when in this unusual little section of the country. It is the gardening good book… except it was written when our climate was different just a few decades ago.

I am learning that it is better to experiment than follow the book. We not only had a January this year that showed March day temperatures and April night temperatures, but it is continuing to be strange. Consequently, I directly sowed a dozen different seed types as much as two months early…. everything came up… and so far is maintaining.

Now I find the experts scorning me for not following ‘the book’.

I figure that in the Northwest U,S., this year every outdoor plant was in an experiment.

Adapt,
Carol

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