or wait till global warming creeps into your new area?

I miss lilacs...we are supposed to be too warm for them
but
if this damp,cloudy, chilly winter and spring is the beginning of a cycle,
I may try growing some here in 8a country.

several years ago. Said lilac will be snuck into the "houseplant" grouping when we move. mr. beac thinks I'm a bit plant-crazy--- and he's probably right but that sucker will bloom eventually and I want to be there to see it!

Or maybe your new neighbors will have some homegrown to share with you.

perhaps she will take pity upon us once we arrive sad and tomato-less.

to help you through it. That's how I get my red ripe, picked-at-their-peak tomatoes in the summer. Even heirloom varieties.

so I'm hoping mr. beac will start pining for toms too and be willing to drop me off/pick me up so we can partake.

You could get the plants started, and they could make the move with you.

I feel for you...I'd be heartbroken to leave behind the perennials that we've planted. Are any of them compatible with Zone 5b?

We are located in 5b. We're having a late but gorgeous spring.

BUT my husband is already giving me the side-eye about taking the houseplants w/us, so I think Earthboxes full of tomatoes would send him right over the edge.

I might try and sneak in a cutting or two from my peonies and clematis (if they are even 5b compatible.)

Glad to know there is another 5b-er here at DU. It will be a new learning curve once I'm able to get going in Spring 2014.

Spring is actually late here in my current zone too. Lots of really chilly nights still but things are greening slowly but surely.

Peonies and clematis both do very well here. Our peonies usually bloom in very early June...the clematis depends on the variety.

Good luck with the move!

Hope you're well. Will be in touch.


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Must say TIRED of not having a decent tomato in ???? years! Dad used to grow them, but that's not been possible for years.

I'm thinking a greenhouse might be essential due to the shorter summer.

It's not quite a "homegrown" tomato, but I have found the Kumato tomato to be a good tide-me-over-the-winter variety.

It's kind of a brown-green-red color and comes in a pack of six. They have a really long shelf life too.

http://www.kumato.com/en/Kumato.aspx


If they are available here in the hinterlands, I am sure they are in your local grocery as well.

Here in 8b it's barely warm enough for my son's tomatoes to flourish early this year. Console yourself that probably you can grow a lot of things that need cooler weather. The weather has been crazy everywhere, so we all may have to readapt to changing and unpredictable conditions in our gardens.

spinach I can do next year. And no blazing heat where we are moving so that will be a nice change.

Envying your brother those early tomatoes. Didn't know that was possible!

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came up with this

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/



Click on individual states in the map at the link

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

and you will get a blow up

like this



or this



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Seems so odd that I have been growing in the same conditions as someone in Spokane but there it is.