Re: CULT:Pots:winter

Thanks, Anner  --  This is the first I've heard of Reemay, and I wonder how
it might work to prevent heaving of plants in regular in-ground beds.  --
Griff

zone 7 in Virginia, where it's bone dry because Linda and Neal are hogging
all the rain.


----- Original Message -----
From: <ChatOWhitehall@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [iris]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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