Re: cold weather and winter gardening--outdoors?

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] cold weather and winter gardening--outdoors?
• From: Janet Laytham j*@worldnet.att.net
• Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:54:53 -0500
• In-reply-to: 167.1aaf4041.2b65ce59@aol.com

I've had good luck planting any annual poppy seed in the fall.
Janet


on 01/26/2003 6:50 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com at Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 01/26/2003 3:41:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> wmorgan972@ameritech.net writes:
> 
>> Has anyone else heard of this phenomenon?  I'm quite curious.  Mother used
>> to say that her step-dad sprinkled grass seed on top of the snow to fill in
>> their damaged lawn.  Is there some value in this?
>> 
> 
> Shirley poppies like to be planted on top of a late snowfall - the thawing
> snow takes them into the soil, and they like the cold start.  I have had very
> good luck planting them this way.
> 
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