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Growing Degree Days- How We Know When Plants Will Flower

Phenology, as simply defined by Merriam-Webster, is a branch of science dealing with the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena (such as bird migration or plant flowering.) Growing Degree Days (GDD) is a tool used in this study that calculates the accumulation of warmer temperature days over a season. In the field of horticulture and your gardens, thisContinue reading “Growing Degree Days- How We Know When Plants Will Flower”