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Thanks for visiting my blog. My posts will be mainly about gardening here in beautiful Spring Valley, Minnesota! After starting gardening here in 2008, I found that I was lacking knowledge in this topic. I decided to take the core horticulture course through the University of Minnesota in the late winter and spring of 2010. As a result of this class and continued volunteer work, I am now in my second year as a Master Gardener. I am still learning and probably will be for years to come. As I research and learn about gardening topics, I will post here. I hope you will find use for this information as I post. Please feel free to contact my with questions or post your comments. Enjoy!

Friday, January 27, 2012

New USDA Hardiness Zones and Interactive Map

Yesterday, the USDA released a revised "Plant Hardiness Zone Map."  It is GIS based and considered more accurate because of increased reliability of data and a longer time frame of data used.  Other factors were also considered in determining the appropriate zone layout.

Here is a link to the interactive map.  You can enter your zip code and get a quick return on your zone.  Although I was hoping for a warmer zone 5 (only so I could plant a Granny Smith applie tree), my zip now shows as zone 4b. 

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

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