TB: rebloom - milk tanks, old refrigerators
- Subject: TB: rebloom - milk tanks, old refrigerators
- From: L* M*
- Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 08:44:21 -0800
From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
Bill Kuykendall, eastern panhandle of West Virginia wrote about seed
germination:
> While most of you probably don't have a vacant milk
> cooler in your back yard, an old refrigerator or laboratory growth chamber
> could serve the same purpose.
Still thinking of Lloyd Z's question about how to encourage these balky
fall rebloomers to bloom in spite of the hot dry summers...
Bill, do you use the bulk tank in the summer? How about digging some
(usually) fall rebloomers in July and putting them in the cooler for a
few days or a week or something, then setting them back out and letting
us know when they rebloom compared to ones left in the field?
It seems from posts to the list that many gardeners keep a good supply
of old refrigerators lying around to use for various plant things, so
maybe this could be a standard method for triggering fall bloom.
Apply to AIS for a grant to buy an old milking parlor bulk tank, of
which there happens to be an abandoned one right across the street,
unless it's been moved...
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
enjoying the latest heatwave (not freezing at night), tho it is so dry
that all the fields are brown. Usually bright emerald green lush fescue
fall growth by now.
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