Re: OT q's for David, King of England

Posted by David in England on July 12, 2006 at 07:35:16 from (86.137.16.168):

In Reply to: OT q's for David, King of England posted by monomechanical on July 12, 2006 at 07:18:49:

Hi Mono;
You got it wrong - Im meerly a PEASANT over here!
The middle & southern areas on England are quite mild, and have a long growing season. ie the very southwest tip of Cornwall & Wales is almost frost free and they plant early potatoes in January for harvest in May & June. Maize for corn wont ripen here, but maize for silage is grown in the south & west.
We hav'nt had a severe winter for years, 2 or 3 days snow a couple of inches deep is "normal".
Im not talking about Scotland in the North here where they do get bad weather.
Winter wheat is planted end Sept to end Dec;
Winter rape in August; spring barley in March & early April. They try to plant as much winter barley and winter rape as possible which ripens first in late July to spread the combining load. Then harvest spring barley & winter wheat last in September.
main crop potatoes are harvested in Oct & Nov; sugarbeet from end Oct to early Jan again to spread the load of the beet going into the factory to be processed.
Theres a lot of your crops that we dontb get here because England is quite far north compared to most of the US. So I'm facinated to read about what you grow.
Cheers David

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• what's grown where . . . monomechanical 08:03:52 07/12/06 (0)

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