Fw: CULT:Pots:winter

Oops  --  That's Neil (not Neal) who's hogging all the rain.  (I hate it
when folks make me Griffen or, worse, Griffon.)  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: "jgcrump" <jgcrump@erols.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [iris]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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