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Re: El Nino and Protecting plants?

>Sorry this post doesn't really have anything to do with indoor gardening!
>I've read up on El Nino and it seems as if NM is gonna have a really cold
>winter. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to protect tender plants
>(passiflora and oleander). Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TIA

I wish I knew what to tell you--El Nino is causing opposite problems up
here.  We usually have wet, cold weather (constant rain and temps in
the low 40s), but this year they're predicting a warm, dry winter.  If so,
the bugs next year are going to be unstoppable with no cold to kill them
off.  It got into the 70s today.  My poor plants are so confused (and so
am I).  We miss our Oregon rain!

As for your plants in NM...are they in pots or in the ground?  If they're
in pots maybe you could cut them back and put them in a cool (low
50s) room like a garage or laundry room for the winter.  Or wrap the 
pots well (someone suggested bubble wrap to me once, haven't tried
it), and cover the plants with straw?  If they're in the ground, you 
could try covering them well with straw.  I wish I could be definite, but
I live in an apartment and only bring in my really big pelargoniums that
I've become attached to (my "dumpster" babies).  I just winter them
over in the house where it's warm and let them keep growing, no
dormancy.  They get like shrubs in the summer.  Maybe someone on
the list who has an outdoor garden has better advice.  Can they be
dug up and brought in?

Cami
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