Re: Re: CULT: Reemay
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Reemay
- From: B* S*
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:02:57 -0400
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>I guess I'm more interested in using it as a winter mulch/protection. Where
>it is put down say on Thanksgiving and removed in April..... I wonder if,
>for this climate, I would be cheating winter and getting an extra zone or two
>out of the project.
I think this would be a mistake. Reemay offers only a light degree of
frost protection; it's main virtue in the vegetable garden is keeping out
pests and extending the season slightly for hardy veggies like spinach,
kale and lettuce.
Rushing the season in spring would be dangerous. You would encourage
too-early growth which would then be vulnerable to sudden cold snaps
against which Reemay would be no protection. I would wonder how, in the
fall, you could drape Reemay over developing rebloom stalks without
snapping half of them off. And, of course, your garden would look
appropriately ghostly for Hallowe'en rather than allowing you to enjoy your
rebloomers.
Rebloom here is late this year. Good show on from AUTUMN BUGLER and many
stalks coming on ETERNAL WALTZ and BUCKWHEAT.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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