growing seasons
Crop development times
Growing seasons are the periods of the year when weather conditions allow plants to grow—typically from last frost to first frost in temperate climates.
Farmers and gardeners plan around their local growing season: The short growing season limits what crops we can raise.
Climate varies the length dramatically, from year-round in the tropics to mere weeks in arctic regions.
- frost datesSeasonal freezing benchmarks
- first frostSeason's earliest freeze
- last frostFinal spring freeze
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- spring plantingCrops sown after frost
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- farm statisticscrop loss, corn yield, milk production, egg production, wool production
- vegetable gardeningtomatoes, carrots, lettuce, peppers, cucumbers
- fruit industryorchards, groves, harvesting, fruit farms, fruit picking
- environmental dataair quality index, climate data, carbon dioxide level, ozone level, weather data
- farm datacrop yields, crop yield, harvest times, planting dates, soil moisture
- farmer's almanacplanting guide, harvest times, weather forecasts, frost dates, moon phases
growing seasonsfrost season
Time when ground freezes
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