This is Weed and this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens. We are an organic gardening show coming to you from Little Hamlet of Tacoma Park. Yes, which has just been reclassified as far as the growing zone we’re in. What growing zone do we get changed to? That’s right. We used to be in 7A here in the suburbs of DC. Now we are officially in 7B. And downtown DC would be 8A.
And we’d like to talk about 8A. That is true with all the tall buildings holding that heat in. Yeah, and all the infrastructure below the streets. I want to look up what you can grow with in 8A. Yeah, downtown. If you got a little townhouse down there in downtown DC, let us know what you’re growing. Right. But we’ve all noticed that spring is coming earlier. And winters aren’t quite as cold as they used to be.
That’s right. My cherries and my figs have ripened earlier every year by a few days, it seems. And one of my best buddies grew up in Frederick and he has a little farm out there that he still manages. And he says definitely a week or two earlier. So what can you grow now that we are zoned in 7B as opposed to 7A?
We are previously zoned at. We are going to find out, aren’t we? I think as much of the same things, it just means we can grow them earlier and longer. Yes, that’s right. Possibly a pecan, possibly an almond. Definitely an apricot. Right. It would be good to have a small apricot tree. Right. And I think the sweet cherry tree succumbs to a heavy frost quite easily. I love those. We are going to try a couple sweet cherry bushes.
I have to look into that. I haven’t tried that. But I definitely noticed that with my arugula crop the last few years, normally to get my winter arugula to survive, I have to be prepared to cover it and protect it from a really intense frost. And I have not had to cover that arugula at all the last couple of years. And that’s just more than that. That’s evidence right there that our
zone has changed because it was not like that 10 years ago. Yes. They base these readings on the lowest temperature that happens during the year. And in previous years, about a decade ago, our lowest temperature was around zero. Right. And now it seems like our lowest temperature is 20 degrees, maybe. We’ve really had no snow per se to speak of in the last, say, five years. It makes me wish I had taken no
notes on all my, better notes on all my gardening over the years is to when things sprouted and all of that. So you can go back and look at it. But I’m not there. Have a spreadsheet. No, I wouldn’t do that. So folks, be venturous, grow your veggies, grow your greens all year long. Yeah. Start early and try to take advantage of this climate change and hold on, be prepared for
growing things, maybe a little bit differently than you used to. That’s right. So this is weed. This is wack. Goodbye from Wowdy Gardens. Join us next week because we’ll be back.