GDD

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending February 28, 2023. This summary is a year to date summary and includes the months of January and February. Stay tuned for these year-to-date summaries each month in 2023.

A staple in the Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL), The Plant Phenology and Growing Degree Day Posts will continue to be a part of this year's Alerts as promised in a January Alert (January 2, 2023). 

 

As temperatures warm, we will begin accumulating growing degree day (GDD) units. You will see those updates in the BYGL, but there is no better way to track GDD and ultimately the plant blooms and insect activity on your own. Be sure to save this website ( https://weather.cfaes.osu.edu/gdd/default.asp ) as a...

A staple in the Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL), The Plant Phenology and Growing Degree Day posts will continue to be a part of this year's Alerts. While there isn't a lot to report currently, the value of today's post shows that no matter where in Ohio you are from - north to south, or east to west - we all begin at zero. 

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending June 30, 2022. As we turn the page into a new month, the information will be compiled from the months previous. And as always, you can monitor the site more regularly, and compare years by using the summary icon on the webpage.

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending May 31, 2022.

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending April 30, 2022. While the calendar says it is spring, our actual outdoor experiences made have said otherwise. We have enjoyed some record breaking summer-like temperatures, but on the flip slide, snow flakes were still flying in April. Hopefully now that it is officially May, things will change - who are we kidding, it is Ohio. Stay tuned for these year-to-date summaries each month in 2022.

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending March 31, 2022. While the calendar says it is spring, our actual outdoor experiences made have said otherwise. We have enjoyed some spring-like temperatures, but on the flip slide, snow flakes have been flying in the not so distant past. Hopefully now that it is officially April things will change - who are we kidding, it is Ohio. Stay tuned for these year-to-date summaries each month in 2022.

Here is your Growing Degree Day (GDD) summary ending February 28, 2022. While we have definately had some weather - warming temperatures, accumulating snows, more warm temps and even more snow, this summary includes the months of January and February. Stay tuned for these year-to-date summaries each month in 2022.

Years ago, a Growing Degree Day (GDD) article was a reoccuring staple in what was the weekly Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL) e-newsletter. While the newsletter evolved into a real time, blog-like, format, GDD information still had a presence as an occasional summary, and of course was included in many of the insect alerts. In 2022, you will be seeing monthly summaries, and we will continue to tie in GDDs into other alerts as well.

So what is your GDD - or growing degree day? Before you reach for a piece a paper, a pencil and a calculator to figure out what your number is, check out the OSU's Growing Degree Day website. This website does the 'math' or the calculations to determine your GDD for you. All you need is an Ohio zipcode. The website uses weather stations across Ohio to determine what the accumulations, and provides visitors their GDD and where they are in a biological calendar of certain plant blooms and insect activity.