Re: Re: CULT: Reemay
From: Christa Royer <croyer@fastrans.net>
Bill Shear wrote:
> 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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