Re: sudden temp drop

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• Subject: Re: sudden temp drop
• From: "* W* <c*@cyberhighway.net>
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:54:34 -0700
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Wade & Michelle Peterson wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm mostly a lurker, but I have a question.
> 
> I have an old, root stock rose that I mulched very well this past fall
> and we had tons of snow in January before it was extremly cold.  Well
> for the past couple days it has been in the 40-50's and today it poured
> rain all day.  A lot of our snow is gone including the protective cover
> on the roses.  This morning at 5:00 am it was 54 degrees, tonight it is
> -20 windchill.  Since all of the snow is gone, will this hurt my roses?
> 
> Michelle Peterson
Windchill doesn't hurt plants. We don't like it much, but that's another
story. If you truly mulched those roses in, and they're on their own
roots, they're fine. Have a good spring. cw, CR, 6a.

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