Re: CULT: Late Frosts

Donald et. al.,

This suggestion is made in complete ignorance, since I haven't had 
iris crosses to process yet.  But this island is subject to serious 
wind as well, so I made a crude coldframe using discarded broken 
cement blocks (I have to rely on ingenuity, having so little $), 
which shelter pots carrying sprouts, and top them with warped, so 
discarded, window screens.  This has worked well on other types of 
seedlings, shielding from wind but open to rain.  I set the (usually 
peat-potted) seedlings on something that drains, so they won't sit in 
water, once they've gotten too big for the windowsills, allowing them 
to harden outside before being subjected to winds and floods.

Thought I'd try it this year with iris crosses -- assuming I get some 
that 'take,' since I've now invested all my money in irises for the 
hybridizing project I have in mine.  It'll be throat-cutting time if 
I find myself totally inept at making crosses!

Patricia, on Whidbey Island, WA.


--- In iris-talk@y..., "Donald Eaves" <donald@e...> wrote:
> Thanks Foley,
> 
> I appreciate the input.  I believe it's probably true.  But along 
with the
> freeze we are having winds gusting to forty mph.  Our usual in 
March and
> April.  I gone to to great lengths in the past to protect the buds 
from
> freezing.  Only to have the predicted freeze fail to materialize 
followed by
> an unpredicted freeze that wiped everything out.  I have too many 
to cover
> and the track record is not good.  I'll be gathering up things not 
anchored
> down for the next few days.  You'd think I'd learn, but there's 
always
> something left the wind can grab and move a few hundred yards.  I 
call it
> iris bloom weather.
> 
> Donald Eaves
> donald@e...
> Texas Zone 7, USA


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