Re: garage overwintering

Good grief!
No one's safe around you!


> [Original Message]
> From: David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/27/2003 7:10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] garage overwintering
>
> >"I'm not much of a pot person during the season"
> >
>
> C'mon, show of hands!  Who expected me to say something about this?
>
> DF
>
> > 
> >
>
>
> Kitty wrote:
>
> >Linda,
> >I'm not much of a pot person during the season - in fact, I unpot my few
> >houseplants and plant them directly in the soil for the summer. (They
> >really seem to enjoy this) But come fall, the tenders have to come in.
> >The tender bulbs are dug and potted and allowed to yellow before putting
> >in the garage, out of the light. They don't get watered again until I
> >want to bring them out of dormancy or they decide this on their own (as
> >evidenced by my Tulbahia deciding to bloomon the garage bench in
> >January)
> >
> >
> >The tender perennials, though, are on the counter in front of the
> >south-facing window. I check them periodically to be sure they don't get
> >too dry. don't want to rot them with too much water, but they do need
> >some. The houseplants get to come back in the house.
> >
> >A lot depends on the particular needs of the plants and this I learn as
> >I go. I found that in the case of Persian Shield, Strobilanthes
> >dyerianus, digging up the shrub itself, is of little value; it's too
> >woody by this time. Better to start in late summer taking cuttings to
> >overwinter - in the house, not the garage. By March, the cuttings are
> >plenty big enough to take a second set of cuttings from them.
> >
> >
> >More than you asked, but sometimes there's not a simple answer.;+)
> >Kitty
> >
> >-------Original Message-------
> >From: Linda L Wallpe <lwallpe@juno.com>
> >Sent: 02/27/03 12:49 PM
> >To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >Subject: [CHAT] garage overwintering
> >
> >  
> >
> >>For those who overwinter pots in a garage, 
> >>    
> >>
> >do you water them during the winter?
> >Does your garage have a lot of light?
> >
> >Linda W.
> >
> >PS>   LOL  Donna and Jesse, there's nothing like rainwater!  
> >        I collect not only in pans for the houseplants but roll out the
> >wheelbarrow and collect water for pots that are too large to move off the
> >porch.
> >Only $9.95 per month!
> >Visit <a target=_blank 
> >
> >If you have weeds, you don't have enough plants.
> >
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