Over the top ... protecting bloom stalks
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- Subject: Over the top ... protecting bloom stalks
- From: R* B* <r*@admingw.hsc.unt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:27:41 -0700 (MST)
John Jones wrote:
>Rodney Barton wrote:
>
>> Garden to far from the house? I have a stalk of AUTUM ECHO and a
two
>> liter coke bottle full of water under a five gallon bucket. I
think
>> I'll add a blanket for tonight's predicted 15 degrees F.
> Great idea, I assume you put warm water in your "Hot Water
Bottle"...If
> you get the bottle up off the ground and insulated a little the
earth
> won't suck so much of the heat out of the bottle.
No, warming the water won't help that much. It will quickly cool to
freezing, but will hold that temperature much longer. The point is
not to keep the bud "warm" but to keep it from freezing solid. The
ground here is not frozen so insulating the bottle from the ground
isn't a problem. I uncovered the bud this morning and it seems not
to have frozen. Too early to say if it will bloom. The coke bottle
didn't have any ice while my rain catch buckets nearby were mostly
ice.
Rodney Barton
rbarton@hsc.unt.edu
Hickory Creek, (North Central) Texas, USA
Zone 7/8, typical temp range 15 - 105 F (-9 - 41 C)
AIS, SIGNA, SPCNI, SLI, FWIS, Iris-L
