>> I don't worry for myself. But I have a granddaughter.......
Woofie is the smart one.
BTW, I thought of another use for the global zone-matching idea.
Once we identify our own Koppen Zone, we could look around the world for other regions with similar mini-climates.
Then we know where to look for varieties and crops that would do well in our own backyard. Either informal private seed traders or commercial seed vendors ought to have solved our own problems in THEIR backyard, but we never knew who to ask.
Or we might identify some particular limiting factor that plagues one particular crop or flower we like but can't grow well. We might be able to identify OTHER Koppen zones that have the same limiting factor, and look for seeds from those zones too.
I got the idea from Joseph wanting to get some traditional landrace grain varieties from Central Asia, because that climate has some similarities to Cache Valley Utah. (Dfb or Dfa??)
(If Dfb is right, "Continental / microthermal".
- Cold Winter.
- - No very dry season.
- - - - Relatively warm summer.
- - - - - - - Average temperature above 10 °C (50 °F) in their warmest months,
- - - - - - - and a coldest month average below −3 °C or 0 °C
