Re: Why JI's in pots? My Opinion


On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 Irisborer@aol.com wrote:

> Hi Ellen... I'm working on some mail that's a couple of days old, so you
> probably already have had responses to this posting.  I just want to say that
> I DO overwinter JI's in pots in some cases and have not lost any... but I
> HAVE lost them in the ground. My climate is very much like yours, since we're
> a Buffalo burb... PLENTY cold, PLENTY snow!   The nice thing about a pot is

	Kathy hi,

	I thought Carolyn said she was Zone 5/6 in Buffalo? I haven't lost
	any JI's in the ground (except for AUGUST EMPEROR who died one summer
	with a undetermined ailment after looking just great in May).

	We mulch almost everything but I didn't mulch established
	Siberians last year and they all survived. I have been gardening
	in the 3rd Zone for many years and have lost plants so I guess
	I err on the side of caution.
             
	We don't have the thaw, freeze, thaw syndrome that people in Zones
	4 - 6 write about....except two or three years ago when folks lost
	almost all their unmulched TB's. Usually, the ground is deep frozen
 	until late Spring and most of the danger is gone. I lost all my
	dianthus last May because I took the mulch off too early....so I
	am real cautious....my kids say `overprotective' - even with my 
	garden. :>)

	Even in Zone 3, there are many divergent patterns in climate - 
	We have stong windstorms here in the mountains and have a high
	altitude...which makes it different from the plains in North Dakota
	for instance, etc.

	From Northern New Hampshire where weather becomes an obsession,

	Ellen Gallagher  e_galla@moose.ncia.net
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