Re: garage overwintering

A target is a target!  Even Marge isn't safe sometimes.

DF

Kitty Morrissy wrote:

>Good grief!
>No one's safe around you!
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>>[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
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>>>"I'm not much of a pot person during the season"
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>>C'mon, show of hands!  Who expected me to say something about this?
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>>DF
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>>Kitty wrote:
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>>>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)
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>>>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
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>>>>For those who overwinter pots in a garage, 
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>>>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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