Re: CULT: Weather, stalks

Do you remember when the oldest sprouted? Sounds like yours are about the same size as mine. Like you, I tried to spread mine out over the winter to keep the whole process more manageable. Hah. The only thing that will make it more manageable is to stop making so many crosses!
If you don't have plant bed covers, do you have a sprinkler system you could turn on to coat the babies with ice, like they do the citrus in Florida to protect from freeze damage? It would at least keep them from getting below 32.
Or cover them with bedsheets would help some without totally crushing the wee babes. Or surrounding them with cola bottles full of water to buffer them from the cold a little. 


Linda-
I don't think they've grown too much since I told you the biggest was 11
inches.  Planted 3 weeks earlier than last year, so of course the forecast now
is to go from highs in the upper 70s through Tuesday to low of 27 on Wednesday
night.  I have lots of glass jars I use to protect dahlia sprouts, but
certainly not 387 of them, which is how many babies are in the ground.

I burritoed seeds in 5 different batches, spreading the sprout times out over
the winter to make it more manageable.  Some of the last batch, which didn't
get into the fridge until 12/21, are still sprouting, or just up, and thus
still in pots.

I think maybe we're 4 weeks ahead of the season so far.  Actually saw the
first mosquito today.

Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5



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