Comments on: USDA Zone Changes https://gardern.co.za/2006/12/usda-zone-changes/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2006/12/usda-zone-changes/#comment-5107 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:19:33 +0000 #comment-5107 Wrong. The USDA contracted a company to produce a new zone map in 2003. The map can still be found online. The data they constructed used the same time line as the grossly outdated 1990 map. The results were even warmer than Arbor Day's map and map was pulled. Rumor has it that some people in the USDA were bothered by the warming…hmmm, a government entity…So they decided that 30 years of records would better "pad" the alarming amount of warming! The result? We will be receiving a watered down map that will be outdated by the time it reaches us. Don't want to alarm the public!

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2006/12/usda-zone-changes/#comment-5106 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:14:00 +0000 #comment-5106 Hi- I’m moving to Amherst soon and was hoping that someone could tell me Amherst’s zone (from S. Florida).

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2006/12/usda-zone-changes/#comment-5105 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:04:00 +0000 #comment-5105 Matt: I think you’ll find that the official USDA zone map has not changed. What has changed is the arbor day organization zone rating. These are two unconnected projects.

The USDA map is in the working stage to change from a 15 to a 30 year data map but is not yet done according to Tony Avent who sits on the committee and reported same on the alpine-l listserv.

Just to clarify things a bit.

Doug

]]> By: Jenn https://gardern.co.za/2006/12/usda-zone-changes/#comment-5104 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:48:00 +0000 #comment-5104 I’m just going to continue to plant zone five. I have enough heartache when plants die to go and court disaster with too much enthusiam.

I happened to find this quote just today:
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -Dan Quayle

Uh, yeah. Somebody must have carefully explained that to him, only to have him miss the point entirely. And that was back when changing our path might have accomplished something. Sigh.

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