{"id":63,"date":"2018-03-27T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/?p=63"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:41:09","slug":"63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/2018\/03\/63\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Frost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"brand\">\n<nav id=\"header-default\">\n<div class=\"row small-collapse medium-uncollapse large-uncollapse xxlarge-uncollapse\">\n<div class=\"large-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"menu-main-menu-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"large-12 columns\">Last Frost?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-359\" class=\"post-359 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-weather\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h5 class=\"entry-title\">By: Andrew Sawyer Wilcox County ANR Agent<\/h5>\n<div class=\"entry-meta top\">\n<p><span class=\"date\">Mar 23, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox_87qu\">\n<div id=\"atstbx\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-360\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/March15th-Frost-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture is actually from March 15th frost, but we had a little bit of a frost this morning too. With Easter just a week away, this maybe the last one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/March15th-Frost-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 15th frost<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If anything this winter, we have sure seen some better chill hours. It\u2019s actually been not one, but two years since we had this kind of cold weather. We really need these chill hours for our fruit crops, as well as for killing off some nematodes and insects. After last season with whiteflies, we need it as cold as it can get to kill adults and maybe some immatures.<\/p>\n<p>The below graph is from the Georgia Weather website and shows the chill hours (below 45 degrees) from October 1 to March 23 this winter and comparing the last 3 winters:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-362\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/03\/2017-2018ColdHours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Frost? By: Andrew Sawyer Wilcox County ANR Agent Mar 23, 2018 &nbsp; This picture is actually from March 15th frost, but we had a little bit of a frost this morning too. With Easter just a week away, this maybe the last one. March 15th frost If anything this winter, we have sure seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}