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Contents 1 About USDA Hardiness Zones: 2 Winter Sowing 3 WWR Gardeners 3.1 Denali 3.1.1 Varieties I have started indoors for 2007: 3.2 Jimbob 3.3 Cate 3.4 Mrs. Toad 3.5 Rubenerd 3.6 Anagram 4 Listener notes about garden songs 5 Garden songs on WWR that can be requested right now 5.1 Songs about tulips 5.2 Songs about daisies 5.3 Songs about roses 5.4 Songs about tomatoes 5.5 Songs about pumpkins 6 See also

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About USDA Hardiness Zones:

Learn about USDA zones on wikipedia

USDA Zone 1: below (-50° F)

USDA Zone 2a: to (-45° F)

USDA Zone 2b: to (-40° F)

USDA Zone 3a: to -39.9° C (-40° F)

USDA Zone 3b: to -37.2° C (-35° F)

USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4° C (-30° F)

USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6° C (-25° F)

USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8° C (-20° F)

USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1° C (-15° F)

USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3° C (-10° F)

USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5° C (-5° F)

USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7° C (0° F)

USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9° C (5° F)

USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2° C (10° F)

USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4° C (15° F)[1]

Winter Sowing

Some perennial seeds may be grown by the technique of winter sowing. Some plants require a period of freezing and thawing before they germinate. This is common among native plants of sub-polar or alpine regions and especially Alaskan plants. You know, where there's snow most of the time. This freeze/thaw period seems to be a similar mechanism to the requirement of other seeds which require passing through an animal's gut or even being burnt, such as the black spruce [2] found in Alaska. The repeated freezing and thawing helps to break the seed coat to begin germination. A good rule is if a species's native distribution is in a area that has say, 4 months of sub-freezing temperature; it is likely that the seed will need to be winter-sown.

Seeds can be winter-sown in flats in the fall or winter. The trays can be lightly covered with plastic or a woven agricultural fabric like Remay. Then the trays are left out to be covered in snow.

There are artificial methods of creating this cold environment for germination. One method is keeping the seeds in a slightly open ziplock bag with some moist sand, peat or other seed starting medium and keeping it in your refrigerator. Another method involves the use of an alpine house, which is like a greenhouse, but is constructed partially underground and uses ventilation to keep seeds and plants cool. The alpine house can be used for both germination and cultivation; unlike your refrigerator.

WWR Gardeners

Denali

USDA hardiness zone maps say I garden in a zone 1. Some years it is so cold, it is like a zone -1. A lot of perennial plants people grow around the USA just won't survive here. No ginko, no peaches. However, I can successfully grow cold-weather vegetables like summer squash, cabbage, snap peas, broccoli and spinach. Many Alaskans have set world-records for vegetable size.

I like to grow a variety of annuals; mostly vegetables, herbs and some flowers. I start plants like tomatoes and peppers first. I start most seeds inside as I've got only about 100 frost-free days a year. It's cold up here! 265 days of frost!

I like to have a vegetable garden to make my own organic, non-genetically modified food. Much of the vegetables I grow are not available to purchase where I live. I also grow wild strawberries. They are also very good.

I have a rock garden [3] of Dianthus deltoides, Dianthus barbatus [4], and Dianthus gratianopolitanus. I enjoy Dianthus and it is a easy plant to grow from seed. It grows well in a pot and in my opinion makes a nice patio or windowbox plant. I also have an unknown type of alpine aster in the rock garden.

I also have a mixed perennial border that has Iris setosa var. interior, Gaillardia aristata [5]AKA Blanketflower, Achillea millefolium AKA Yarrow [6], Erigeron alpinus AKA Alpine Aster, Epilobium angustifolium AKA Fireweed [7] and two types of hybrid delphiniums.

I am currently designing a passive solar-heated greenhouse to be built at my home. My husband is interested in growing some wheat. Anyone want to send me their extra wheatberries?

Varieties I have started indoors for 2007:

• Window Box Roma tomatoes
• Zapotec Pleated pink tomato
• Pineapple yellow tomato
• Yellow Pear tomato
• Korlik cherry red tomato
• Manitoba red tomato
• Glacier red tomato
• Thai Yellow chili pepper
• Nonstop begonias
• Asiatic Lillies

Denali 15:46, May 11, 2006 (AKDT)

Jimbob

I haven't started any seeds for 2006. This was supposed to be a big garden year up-the-tracks. But I think it's going to be a 'new garden' year at the Wheat Palace. There is no garden there currently so it looks like I'll be (yet again) turning over raw land. At least there is a large open area even though it does have lots of stumps.

Esther has started a bunch of vegatables and flowers but I don't know where she's going to transplant them to. I hope she sees this page and maybe takes some photos of her Alaskan plants throughout the season and posts them. Naw, I'll have to do it...

Cate

When I lived in Decatur, Georgia, we had 3 acres of land, most of it heavily wooded. I still remember clearing a small plot in the woods for a garden. It was back-breaking work. We had to cut down trees and pull poison ivy and move rocks in the only place where any sun seemed to hit at all. And then the helicopters hovering overhead...apparently the Atlanta Police didn't understand my need for a VEGETABLE garden. We waved at them quite pleasantly (using all fingers, of course), enjoying the break and the cool breeze from the helicopter blades, while they took pictures of our faces from above. They came back and visited us several times overhead that summer. Gosh, I loved that garden.

I grew yard long beans, and okra, and eggplant and peppers of all sorts. Didn't have the room for corn, but we had collards and turnips. After the babies were born, it got kind of hard keeping the nettles and poison ivy out, and we tended to just walk through the woods and count the fairy rings and spiders and snakes. Our woods in Georgia had more different colored, large spiders than anywhere I have ever been, including the insect exhibits at zoos.

Nowadays, we live in a 120-year-old decrepit house in Howell, Michigan, in the city, with no room for a proper garden. I do compensate though. I have pots with strawberry plants, and many perennials around the house, and I always do a few pots with tomatoes. Last year I did white currant cherry tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes and red grape tomatoes. They were too excellent to describe. I also plant a lot of herbs around our kitchen deck. No, not that kind of herbs! No helicopters hovering now! Just several kinds of thyme (you can never have enough thyme), chives, lemon balm, oregano, several varieties of sage, and a couple parsleys. We try for basil every year, but it never does well.

I still get all the seed catalogs every winter and look at them and dream. Someday. Maybe someday again.

Mrs. Toad

Seeds that I have for this year:

• Chard, Rainbow Bright Lights
• Bean, Bush Greencrop
• Bok Choy, Tai Sai
• Broccoli, Calabrese
• Cantaloupe, Heirloom Peacock
• Carrot, Dragon
• Carrot, Gold Mine
• Eggplant, Ichiban
• Eggplant, White
• Eggplant, Purple
• Gourd, Luffa
• Grape, Concord
• Leek, Falltime
• Lettuce, Loosehead Blackseed Simpson
• Lettuce, Mesclun Spicy Mix
• Lettuce, Mesclun Sweet Salad Mix
• Lettuce,Blend Gourmet Salad
• Okra, Clemson Spineless
• Peas, Garden Green Arrow
• Peas, Snow Sugar Pod 2
• Peppers, Hot Mini Multi-color
• Peppers, Hot Red Habanero
• Peppers, Hot Super Cayenne
• Peppers, Hot Jalapeno
• Peppers, Hot Hungarian Wax
• Peppers, Hot Ancho/Poblano
• Peppers, Sweet Bell
• Pumpkin Rouge d'etamps
• Soybean Early Hakucho
• Spinach Melody Hybrid
• Squash, Mystery Mispackaged
• Squash, Summer Early Straightneck
• Squash, Winter Acorn
• Squash, Winter Spaghetti
• Squash, Winter Butternut
• Squash, Winter Kabocha
• Squash, Winter Delicata
• Tomato Health Kick
• Tomato, Cherry Supersweet 100
• Tomato, Heirloom Cherokee Purple
• Tomato, Heirloom Top

Rubenerd

I really did not know much about gardening but when I lived in Singapore I had a spherical terrarium with cactii. I bought the plants when little, replanted them in the sphere and surrounded them with medium sized gravel and moss I grew with milk (technique I saw Bill Nye explain!).

I'm not entirely sure what it was supposed to look like, ended up looking like a minature green meadow with cactuses dotting the landscape and a small rock path. Very surreal.When I find some photos I'll post them here. Nothing fancy, borderline horrendus actually, but I really loved it.

Having dabbled in both I think computer programming is a lot like gardening: you start off with the raw materials and using your skill and planning abilities you build something beautiful. If my grandmum read that (aka: green thumb of the family) she'd shoot me.

Anagram

My favorite gardening accomplishment so far is the glut of peaches a couple of years ago, that QuiltMama taught me how to can. Everyone got a jar of peaches for a present!

Listener notes about garden songs

• "In the Dirt" by Karen Savoca
• "Garden Song" by David Mallett [8] recorded in a fabulous concert by Arlo Guthrie with Pete Seeger. (Tracks of the "Garden Song" by Jim Brannigan, and...)
• The album "Field Study" by Veda Hille [9] has some songs about science and nature. I like the song "Arctic Adapations" because it is about the biological adaptations of arctic plants. Denali 20:36, May 9, 2006 (AKDT)
• "Iris Blue" by Johnsmith
• Our Summertime by Rachel Ries talks about tomatoes and rutabagas, which is cool. Don't think I ever heard another song talk about rutabagas...Cate 19:26, May 25, 2006 (AKDT)

Garden songs on WWR that can be requested right now

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Back To the Garden	It Makes A Difference	As You Go	Tags: Americana / Introspective / Toe tapper / Sparsely produced / Storytelling / Electric / Band	4:00	Apr 11th, 2008	(6 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Canned Goods	Canned Goods	Ann Zimmerman	Tags: Cover / Piano / Mellow / Pretty / Greg brown / Gardening / Solo vocalist / Acoustic	4:22	Jun 21st, 2008	(20 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Constantine Gardens	Live From The Memory Hotel	Mark McKay	Tags: Live / Pop rock	3:51	Feb 14th, 2007	(4 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Songs about tulips

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Telephone For Tulip	A Lover's Lullaby	Eric Hansen	Tags: Accordion / Fun / Happy / Upbeat / Animals / Dogs / Pets / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band	3:13	Mar 8th, 2008	(7 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Tulips In The Spring (Live)	Dead Sea Cafe	Brooks Williams	Tags: Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Solo performer / Folk / Fingerstyle / Live	4:30	Jul 16th, 2008	(4 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Songs about daisies

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
African Daisy	Trouble	Steve Brosky	Tags: Slide guitar / Electric / Band	4:40	Jan 26th, 2008	(11 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Daisy	The Town's Old Fair	Josh Lederman Y Los Diablos	Tags: Newgrass	3:37	Apr 24th, 2007	(3 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Daisy Goes A Dancin'	Only A Glance	Wayne Long	Tags: Instrumental / Acoustic guitar	2:40	Jun 11th, 2008	(9 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Daisies And Fire	Daisies And Fire	Jean Mann	Tags: Girl with guitar	3:22	Jun 17th, 2008	(6 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Dancing Daisies	Autumn In The Valley	Chris Evans	Tags: Acoustic guitar / Flute / Upbeat	0:41	Oct 2nd, 2007	(0 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Howl (Pushing Up Daisies)	The Howl Sessions	Steven Alvarado	Tags:	4:10	Sep 15th, 2006	(2 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Songs about roses

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
A Rose For Lynn	Acousticology 101	William Kunsman	Tags:	3:49	Jun 24th, 2008	(1 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
A Rose Is A Rose	Stories From A Diner	Sharon Allitt	Tags:	4:16	Sep 19th, 2007	(0 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Blue Rose Cafe	A Reunion & Tribute To Pat Long	Blue Rose Cafe	Tags: Live / Celtic / Violin / Sad / Slow / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Electric / Band	3:26	Jun 15th, 2008	(6 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Clara's Song	Breaking Strings	Sarah C. Hanson	Tags: Flowers / Roses / Texas / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Paris / Yellow	5:06	Oct 26th, 2007	(11 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Garden Rose	Five Stories	Kris Delmhorst	Tags: Solo vocalist / Acoustic guitar / Pretty / Quiet / Roses / Wildflower	4:43	Jun 14th, 2008	(27 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Give Me The Roses While I Live	Factory Girl	Sharon Dressen McKnight	Tags:	3:05	Oct 23rd, 2006	(0 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Songs about tomatoes

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Don's Homegrown Tomatoes	Sogni D'Oro	Bruce Piephoff	Tags:	1:55	Mar 24th, 2008	(2 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Home Grown Tomatoes	We Could Use A Little Rain	Tom Fisch	Tags: Country / Bluegrass / Cover / Acoustic guitar / Slow / Gardening / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band	3:24	May 23rd, 2008	(7 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Homegrown Tomatoes	Keepers	Guy Clark	Tags: Country / Live / Bluegrass / Folk / Acoustic guitar / Bass / Mandolin / Fun / Gardening / Food / Jim's double favorite / Jim's triple favorite / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band	4:29	Jul 19th, 2008	(36 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

Songs about pumpkins

Song	Album	Artist	Tags	Time	Last played	Overall Rank	Your rank	Request
Pumpkin	Pumpkin	Jack Erdie	Tags:	5:09	Oct 31st, 2007	(4 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Pumpkin Hair	I'm Growing	Gunnar Madsen	Tags:	2:49	Apr 15th, 2008	(3 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
Pumpkin Time	On A Clear Day	Natalia Zukerman	Tags: Acoustic guitar / Jazz / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Flute / Bass	3:16	Jul 11th, 2008	(16 votes)	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.

See also

• Gardening humor