Re: Gene's greenhouse NOW Sycamore

Thanks so much.  I think they are so beautiful...I have plenty of oak,
cedar and redbud seedlings that I have to pull out but the nearest
sycamores are around three miles away.
Bonnie Zone 7 ETN


> [Original Message]
> From: Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 1/19/2006 6:21:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse NOW Sycamore
>
> Bonnie, I'll be on the lookout for some in my flowerbeds this spring.  I 
> love them, too.  I transplanted one to my yard last year, but I don't
have 
> room for any more.  I hate to pull them out and throw them away.  I'll
let 
> you know what comes up.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:29 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
>
>
> > Do you have any seedlings?  I am trying to get some sycamores to grow on
> > our property.  We purchased one...only one area nursery had one for
> > sale...my DH and I think they are beautiful.
> > Bonnie ETN Zone 7
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 1/18/2006 11:59:05 AM
> >> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
> >>
> >> It doesn't get cold enough where I live to need real heat inside the
> >> greenhouse. I put in 3 big plastic drums full of water, figuring it
would
> > be
> >> a kind of thermal buffer for when the temps drop. I guess it works.
> >> Sometimes if it is forecasted to get seriously cold I'll run a little
> > floor
> >> heater at night. What I should have done is buy a bigger fan. Even in
> >> winter, when the sun is out it gets hot in there, upwards of 90F. By
the
> > end
> >> of March I've moved everything outside. Mid-summer it will get over
120F
> >> (comes in handy if you need to dehydrate veggies or fruit leather).
> >> I have a dilemma now though. When we sited the greenhouse there was
this
> >> small struggling sycamore nearby. It was a side of our yard we didn't
use
> >> much, didn't irrigate. I didn't figure the sycamore would cause a
> > problem. I
> >> guess it got enough water from what drips onto the greenhouse floor
> > because
> >> it got big in a hurry. Now it shades the greenhouse quite a bit when I
> > bring
> >> in plants end of October, and here the dead leaves hang on the sycamore
> > for
> >> months unless there's a really big wind. On the plus side, most of
what I
> >> bring inside is the stuff from my patio which has been in partial shade
> > all
> >> summer anyway. But the tree is not going to get smaller...so I need to
> >> decide what to do about it.
> >>
> >> Cyndi
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> >> Of Cornergar@aol.com
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:14 AM
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
> >>
> >> I think I am grateful now that I made the decision to go passive solar
> > only
> >> in my grnhse so I do not have any gas bills. I do have power so in
really
> >> extreme weather I can leave lights on for enough additional warmth to 
> >> keep
> >> from
> >> losing everything. It seldom gets below 28F even with several cloudy 0
> >> degree
> >> days in a row. Of course I'm not really "growing" anything...just 
> >> holding.
> >> But it
> >> works for holding the more tender things in 1 gal pots and I can be out
> >> there
> >> potting up plugs and bare root in Feb. Don't have running water 'tho 
> >> which
> >> is
> >> sort of a pain but do-able. By the end of Mar I'm bursting at the seams
> > but
> >> by then I can start hardening off which isn't too difficult as the pots
> > have
> >>
> >> been subject to a hard life already! Am still anxious to try hypertufa.
> > It's
> >> a
> >> New Years resolution! I like this time of year..Anticipation is high ( 
> >> and
> >> the
> >> body doesn't hurt too much yet). kathy
> >>
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