Re: Re: CULT: Potting new arrivals - long

Well....I am not sure we had a summer this year.  We have had frost 
every month this year
except for maybe July.  Normally our summers are about 8 weeks and then 
we only get a week
or so of temperatures over 90 degrees.  In my area of Manitoba I get a 
fair amount of rain.
The only drawback I can see is that is gives somewhere for the 
grasshoppers to lay eggs....
my soil is normally too hard, or too wet for them to do much of that.

Sandra
SE Manitoba
Zone 3

Donald Eaves wrote:

>Hello Sandra,
>
>Manitoba is a long way from here.  How long are your summers?  Mine can
>begin by the early part of May in bad years and then last into October
>sometimes.  Those are the worst years, of course.  Nearly six months of heat
>coupled with not enough rain.  Thankfully this one has been relatively, but
>still very dry until yesterday and today.
>
>  
>
>>I actually
>>think the irises that are started this way do better, however, I don't
>>get the same
>>heat and dry conditions as Donald would.
>>    
>>
>
>That's it, I think.  Mine did very well from fall through spring.  Good
>growth.  But when the heat and dry weather set in, then I'd lose many by the
>time it cooled off in the fall.
>
>Donald Eaves
>donald@eastland.net
>Texas Zone 7b, USA
>
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