Hello from zone 6a Canada

thistlebloom

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Howdy from another energetic old broad in north Idaho Lori!
Your zone 6a? Pardon my ignorance, but are Canadian zones interchangeable or compatible or...what AM I trying to say?
Lets see, does zone 6a in Canada have the same lows as the USDA zone 6a?
 

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Yes, same measures. I do try to outfox Mother Nature by trying to extend from start to finish. I pretend I am really a zone 7.

Some plants don't fall for it though. ..
 

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I'm zone 6b! Can't wait to hear more about your gardening. :welcome
 

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I spend the end of march all the way through to somewhere in April prodding the earth to see just how frozen it is.
I have seedlings in the basement under home made lights with compact fluorescent bulbs. I do this because our electricity is nasty expensive.
I wish I could can the sun!
 

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:frow ... Welcome @CanadianLori ... from down south, where it's colder. :D I have zone envy too, in my dreams I am in zone 8.

I have been able to push quite a few zone 5 perennials through the winters, but lately it's been hard to count on the early snow cover before the deep freeze.
 

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Hi Lori and Welcome!

My grandfather grew up in London ... Ontario ... Wikipedia says half of all Canadians live south of Richmond Hill, ON. So, at 43° North, he was a southerner :).

Steve
@ 48° North
 
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