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My parents have owned homes and grown many food plants in many cold coastal climates near water (let's say Oregon) and in hot valley climates (ca central valley
by talldatethrow 3y ago
My parents have owned homes and grown many food plants in many cold coastal climates near water (let's say Oregon) and in hot valley climates (ca central valley) where there is definitely less water.
Things grow much better in the warmer area, but you have to water like crazy.
I personally do wonder if we couldn't grow food where the water is, if only those areas weren't as cold as they currently are. Obviously makes you wonder if the rainfall in those areas would still stay.
- Retric 3y agoCold northern climates are cold because they get less sunlight which then translates into lower temperatures. Simply increasing temperature wouldn’t provide more sunlight in the spring and fall which means the growing seasons don’t actually expand nearly as much as you might think. Also, we can grow stuff as far north as Canada while the equator runs though South America. People used to Mercator projections get a wildly incorrect view of what earth’s surface looks like, but in reality the loss of farmland wildly outweighs any possible gains.
- talldatethrow 3y agoIt can't just be the sun. Growing tomatoes in a yard in Marin even has different time tables and IMO yield than it does in the valley just east of it.
- Modified3019 3y agoYeah it’s not just available sunlight, though that is a significant one. Another factor in plant growth is that chemical reactions happen “faster” the greater the temperature. While temperature doesn’t have as an extreme direct effect on plants as it does microbes, the effect is still absolutely there.