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Re: Shrinking SQFT Archives?

On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:55:49 -0700 Katie <kael@oregontrail.net> writes:
>So, John, what are you putting in your winter garden?  How cold do you
>have to protect against?  Let's hear more!

If I have a "normal" winter it will frost a few times and perhaps the
birdbath will have 1/16 inch of ice on it a few nights requiring covering
of tomatoes. Following those same nights the daytime high will reach 70
deg. F.

Leaf lettuce and broccoli do fine without special effort. Most all root
crops do fine (except when I try to grow them). I tend to limit the size
of my winter garden because of other activities. I plan to grow a few
pixie tomatoes in pots so that I can move them indoors at night. This is
not to prevent freezing but to provide the 55 deg. F minimum necessary
for fruit set. Celebrity tomatoes have produced fruit at Christmas in
past years, with covering on nights when frost was expected.

However, we may not have a "normal" winter this being an El Nino year so
I don't really know how to plan.
>
>John Orwick wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:55:48 GMT+2 Michael Milner - 0480392
>> <milnerm@KBPNFS03.ESKOM.CO.ZA> writes:
>> >Hi to all,
>> >Just joined this list,is it always this dead??
>> >MIKE MILNER.
>> >Cape Town.
>> >South Africa.
>> >Zone 10.Sunset Zone21.
>>
>> Last spring I was getting 10 to 20 messages per day. I think that
>much of
>> the USA has gone into hibernation for this year. Not so in Southern
>> California. I am working on my winter garden.
>>
>> oldjohn@juno.com
>> John Orwick
>> El Monte, CA [20 miles east of Los Angeles]
>>
>>
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