Re: [CH] BC

Byron Bromley (Byron.Bromley@gsd-co.com)
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:51:12 -0500 

Doug

I am about 3K miles closer to Toranto and Ottowa  than BC, And only about
120 miles south of the border, According to my Zone map the are -2 Zones
from us. Ergo less growing time I think they only have 2 months of chile
pepper weather. We get snow storms called Alberta Clippers. The one Zone map
I looked at showed BC in the same Zone.  Assumed the same of almost 9 months
of snow cover from data I have.
  Data from a CDN seed company on PEI

The weather here is crazy too, Temps today in the 50's, normal 30's and no
snow cover, Normal is around 6ft. Could even dig in my garden because the
grounds not frozen. Never seen that before.
Realy leary of next growing seasons bug and disease problems.

For you newbies on the list go to www.pepperfool.com, Doug has own section
there
Lot's of good stuff that will warm your soul and give you the Chili Wilies

Byron



----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Irvine" <email@domain.com>
To: "Byron Bromley" <Byron.Bromley@gsd-co.com>
Cc: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] BC


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> > Cdn weather is usually described as good snowmobiling or poor
snowmobiling.
> > When you get tired of the sled, you play hockey or cook.
> > When that is about 10 mo a year, you have plenty of time to try a lot of
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> Goodness! I can see that Byron has never even visited BC! We did not have
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> below 0 C until a couple of days ago, and the first snow fell yesterday,
and
> was gone by noon...it is snowing again now, and the temperature is
currently
> minus 5 or about 30 F so it still is not very cold(compared to other parts
of
> this continent) This is why BC is called the banana belt of Canada, and
why
> all the retirees' wish to make Victoria there home! And why chile peppers
grow
> so well  here, because we do have a longer growing seaon. So, we are not
so
> heat deprived as a lot of Merkins think we are....actually, the
temperature
> here in Nanaimo, and the temperature in Seattle, almost always
coincide...we
> did live in Winnipeg, we did live in Toronto, we did live in Calgary, and
that
> is why we now live in BC....Cheers, Doug in Paradise
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