• Subject: Re: Re: "stuff' to do
• From: C*@aol.com
• Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:03:40 EST

Kitty, love your setup! Looks much more "pro" than mine! I guess we can  
hope we won't need frost blankets. Good idea to have them tho'. I can remember 
 scrambling to get things covered at the store one April a couple years 
ago.  Kathy
 
 
In a message dated 3/8/2010 8:40:46 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:

I just  ordered a frost blanket for plants that will be arriving soon. Only 
40%  light transmission but protects by as much as 10 degrees.  Will use it 
 
only at night.
Here is a picture of our holding  bed:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmrsy/2407097779/in/photostream/


Kitty
neIN,  Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Bush"  <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent:  Monday, March 08, 2010 7:16 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Re: "stuff' to  do


> Hi Kathy
> We are setting our trays of containers (5  pint size.. nothing
> smaller) on the gravel along a stone wall on the  east side of the 
> greenhouse
> out of the prevailing wind. I  would not set them up on shelves... that
> lowers the temps more...  Contact with soil (gravel, blacktop, etc) out of
> prevailing wind and  double cover with remay. Pull the cover during the 
> day,
> cover  at night.
> More freezing temps forecast at night next week, but we will  go
> ahead and move plants out that have not been in a greenhouse all  their 
> life,
> plants still dormant. Then we cross our  fingers.
> Oh, and dry is better than soggy wet when cold  hits.
>
> Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery &  Gardens,LLC
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Garden Writer -  Photographer -  Lecturer
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net  [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf
> Of Gene, I can  identify with "out of room" in the greenhouse. I am 
>  wondering
>
> if it would work to put some newly potted gal.  perennials out on shade
> shelves and cover them with a row cover. These  shelves are off the ground
> about
> 2'. It is still getting down  to slightly below freezing at night. What do
> you  think?  Kathy
>
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