RE: CULT: question - frost heave

Just out of curiosity, would it make a difference how long between your first freeze 
and the ground being frozen?  We traditionally have our first freeze Halloween 
weekend but I bet the ground doesn't actually freeze until late December or 
January.

Just wondering?

Dana


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Boyce <utahirisgal@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sep 27, 2005 4:03 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: RE: [iris] CULT: question - frost heave

Linda,
   We have alot of frost heaving problems here in Utah.  Our rule of thumb 
is get it into the ground 6 weeks before the first freeze.  Our average 
first freeze is Oct 13th, but we have had first freezes as early as Sept 
13th.  (Yesterday several cities in Utah did get their first frost).  I try 
to get everything done by Labor Day at the extreme latest.  I want to have 
those rhizomes get as many and as deep a root system in place before the 
ground freezes hard.
Susan Boyce -  Utah (where it's currently raining)


>From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
>Reply-To: iris@hort.net
>To: iris- talk <iris@hort.net>
>Subject: [iris] CULT: question - frost heave
>Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:46:41 -0400
>
>For those of you who garden in areas where frost heave of newly planted
>rhizomes is a problem,
>
>how late before the ground freezes can you usually safely plant?  Six
>weeks?
>
>Back when the winters were colder here, the ground wouldn't usually
>freeze until around Christmas.  Sometimes earlier.  Not at all last
>winter.
>
>--
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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Dana Brown
AIS Region 17 RVP
Director ASI, TBIS
AIS, ASI, MIS, RIS, SPIS, TBIS
Malevil Iris Gardens
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Lubbock, TX
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
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