Re: garage overwintering

I'll bite, it's always clever you are!!

P/Y

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:24:32 -0500 (EST)

>DF:  I know it's coming, so I'm just waiting...LOL!!
>
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>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
>--Albert Einstein
>
> --- On Thu 02/27, David Franzman < dfranzma@pacbell.net > wrote:
>From: David Franzman [mailto: dfranzma@pacbell.net]
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:10:25 -0800
>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
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>> 
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>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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