So my students are sharing that we live about an hour's drive away from an ocean and we live in a valley surrounded by mountains covered with forest. The tulip garden at the Journey North office in Minnesota has been very, very cold. One day last week, when the air temperature was 2 degrees below zero F, we began to wonder how cold our tulips were. We trudged out to the garden, dug down through 16 inches of snow, and read the dial on the soil temperature thermometer. We do not have any straw covering our garden.
Students can collect soil temperatures all spring as their garden grows.
They are sure to look at the world in a new way. The weather had been mild with some rain. The 20th of December brought very cold weather and rain to Placerville. We are reporting that the tulips came out of the ground on January 19, 1997. The first one is 1.5 inches high, the second one is 1.5 inches high and the third one is 2.0 inches high.