Re: uh oh

Oh my! I'd've invited them to stay in the motor home with you!
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] uh oh


While these mid-west surprises in temps below freezing are no fun, one sort
of gets "used to it." The Christmas we spent in Colorado with in-laws had
honest temps of -40 F and we were given the bedroom the farthest away from
the pot bellied stove they used for heat. We zipped into our sub-zero
sleeping bags UNDER the thick layers of blankets they had on their bed in
there and still woke up to find snow on the covers and ice in Bill's beard!
Brrrrr!!!! (We'd have stayed in the motor home, but it would have hurt
some feelings.)

Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of james singer
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:32 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] uh oh

Yeah... I wouldn't either.

On Oct 15, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Kitty wrote:

Big difference in our zones Bonnie.  Freezing temps are one thing but
we usually get a few stretches of a few days each of minus 20 in our
winters. A year or 2 ago we actually had a stretch of minus 20 fro 3
weeks.  Plumbago is not going to survive here.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] uh oh
Plumbago survives here in the ground with numerous frosts and
freezing temperatures. I don't know how it would do if we had a
serious winter...one with freezing temperatures of several days to weeks.


[Original Message]
From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 10/14/2006 7:49:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] uh oh

Are you keeping track of these temp dip vis-a-vis species? Could be
valuable observations. Especially re plumbago, either blue or white,
and fountain grass, either purple or white.

On Oct 14, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Kitty wrote:

> Just a note on my original uh-oh. We've finally passed throught
> the freeze dip and  will be having more seasonal temps for awhile.
> I
had
> left one purple fountain grass and one Plumbago out there, fully
> exposed, and they are unscathed.  Everything out there in the
tenders
> bed looks just as it did before.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer"
> <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] uh oh
>
>
>> Oh boy. I hope you dry some of those poblanos, Cyndi. They dry
>> super-raisiny and are just great in any sauce made with dried
chiles.
>> They are also fairly expensive as dried peppers--like $5 for a
pack
>> of nine or ten peppers. I envy you and may try to grow some in
>> the next pepper cycle.
>>
>>> I also picked about five pounds of poblano peppers but I only
>>> managed to roast, peel and freeze about 3 lbs. I can do a pound
>>> every
night, I
>>> think, and maybe I'll manage to get them all inside before it
>>> freezes.
>>> First freeze is usually around the end of October, and if I'm
lucky
>>> it
>>> will not damage much because we normally have a couple weeks of
good
>>> weather again after that. But next weekend we are going horse
>>> camping so I will not be able to do anything then.
>>>
>>> Cyndi
>>>
>> Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
>> Hardiness Zone 10
>> Heat Zone 10
>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
>>
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Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Southwest Florida
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Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
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Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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