Seasonal Garden Resources

• Zone-6-Flower-Planting-Chart.pdf - Saved locally
• Zone-6-Vegetable-Planting-Chart.pdf - Saved locally
• Zone-6-Herb-Planting-Chart.pdf - Saved locally
• Zone 6 - Planting Chart | Kellogg Garden Products - Google sheet with all this info plus garden layout and other info. Personal copy. Also saved as Excel spreadsheet attached to topic.
• https://www.kellogggarden.com/download-planting-charts - Source for these resources

• CoCoRaHS Watershed Mapping For Middle Fork Road - Map of watersheds, plus data on precipitation reports from CoCoRaHS project.
• Rodales Organic Life ALMANAC
• Flower and Gardening Articles
• Garden Guides Calendars
• Interactive USDA Gardening and Plant Hardiness Zone Map for North Carolina
• Vegetable and Herb Planting Planner - "This planner allows you to calculate the Sowing Date (when you plant the seeds), the Planting Date and the Date you can expect to begin Harvesting your Vegetables and Herbs."
• Vegetable Garden Calendar - month-by-month planner
• What to Plant Now: Mid-Atlantic - Mother Earth News month-by-month planting guide by region
• Monthly Organic Gardening Guide by Kellogg Garden Organics

Blowing Rock Avg. temp and percip by month

• USDA Hardiness Zone: Zone 6b: -5F to 0F
• Plant Maps Hardiness Zone: Zone 6a: -10F to -5F
• USDA Interactive Plant Zone Map
  • According to this map, Middle Fork Rd. falls within 6b (-5 to 0 low temps).
• Days Where Temp Exceeds 86°F: Rare
• Ecoregion: 66d - Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains
• Freeze Data:
  • Average First Frost October 11 - 20
  • Average Last Frost: May 1 - 10

• NOAA data sets from 1948-2007 - cost ~$70?
• Weather Source Data Sets - 2004-2012 - cost ~$40
• Also Ray's Weather BR archive - approximately from June 2006 - cost free.