It has been a little over five weeks since I last wrote and in that time not much has changed in the garden. Much less than I had hoped. As I sat down Saturday morning March 30th in a sunny room in a warm house I expected to be writing to you to encourage you to order your free carrot seeds and to tell you the facts about how March was colder than February. I went to the internet and wrote down 116 numbers — the high and low temperatures for the 29 days of February in Hull and the first 29 days of March. I had all kinds of ideas on how I could compare the two month to show that February was warmer than March.
Facts being facts though I need to tell you my impressions were wrong. In Hull, in absolute terms, the month of February was colder than March. In February there were twenty days when the low temperature was below 30°F as compared to four in March. In February there were only four days where the high temperature was over 50°F while there were eleven in March. But feelings come from somewhere and in Hull the official high temperature did not reach 60°F during the first 29 days of March but it did in February and in March there were seven straight days where the lows were lower and the highs lower than the historical average for that day. While I could not find official records for wind speed in Hull, there is a weather station at Logan Airport. Logan Airport like Hull is also on the water, somewhat more protected than Hull as it sits on Boston Harbor not the Atlantic Ocean but still exposed to wind. At Logan airport the number of days in February with wind speeds over 20 mph were 7, for March it was 17. It was not the temperature that was getting to me, it was the wind.
I accept that March was warmer than February but I have been hoping for more warmth and growing, and a lot less wind.
I got an email this month from Jessica Tay who has a website about growing and Jessica found us somehow and has linked her site to Carrot Day Massachusetts and I would encourage you to explore her site www.littlegreenyard.com. One of her articles is about carrots and carrot seeds, it is fun and I recommend it. As always, it’s good to know we are not alone and that there are many people out there hoping to encourage us all to grow our own food.
Don’t forget to order you Free Carrot Seeds with this form.
I wrote the first draft of this post on the morning of Saturday March 30th, by the afternoon that day the wind had lessened and in Hull we had the kind of day I had been waiting for all month. May the days also turn your way and please order your free carrot seeds.
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