Fahrenheit vs. Celsius

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2002.05.22 at 02:48:51(8842) Brian! I suddenly looked again at what you wrote & found a possible error? I am used to working in degrees Celsius. In UK on rare occasions temperatures fell to minus 16C = about plus 3F. You wrote your outside temperatures fell to minus 20F = minus 29C. If you meant 20F not minus 20F then your temperature range is of course only 83F which is of the same order as UK but about twice as much as mild West Cork Ireland. Apart from that, the issue remains the same - How does one keep tropical shade plants best in temperate regions with minimum fuel energy consumption & shading however cold or too hot it may be outside the enclosed growing space.....? Ron Iles +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Shade cloth percentage Here in Louisville, KY zone 6. We can get temperatures from -20f all the way up to 103f. The temperature makes it very hard to grow many aroids. I uses a 50% shade cloth on top of the greenhouses during the summer but in the winter it comes off, as the days are shorter and I need to capture as much heat as I can threw the winter days. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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