Re: CULT:Pots:winter
In a message dated 9/8/05 3:50:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jgcrump@erols.com
writes:
<< OK -- the last sentence explains it. Thanks. -- Griff >>
Griff, to help keep the soil temperatures more constant and so help keep the
plants dormant I tuck my pots under the overhanging boughs of an evergreen
tree. I trim the foliage back, cover the pot ghetto with Reemay to blunt the
force of drips, and put some evergreen boughs over them after the holiday. This
also keeps the wildlife from snuffling them over as bad.
The pots stay out for as long as possible, but when that day comes when I
know real winter is incipient, that last day of putting the garden to bed for a
nap, up under the tree they go. Typically this is between December 15 and the
first week of January, when we can have some weather. They come back out in
March when things in the garden start to wake up.
Cordially,
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA USDA Zone 7
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