The great Seattle cold-hardy avocado trial

[swincher]

@CAvocado

On a side note, @swincher do you use data logging thermometers or something for recording temps? If so, can you recommend any?

Oh and my setup for temperature monitoring is likely unnecessarily complicated. I use raspberry pi single-board-computers with sensor chips wired into them. I wrote about it here:

DIY air temperature monitor using raspberry pi

Rather then pull @fruitnut’s thread on soil monitoring off topic, I decided to create a new thread to answer @horna in case others may find it useful. I’ll start with the caveat that I’m not claiming this is better than any commercially available weather station, but for anyone who likes tinkering with electronics, or has a spare raspberry pi they want to put to good use, this might be an alternative that gives you complete control over the data you are collecting. Materials required Any ra…