Re: garden reading, no typos
- Subject: Re: garden reading, no typos
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:02:14 -0500
LOL Paul,
I've kept plants a lot of places, but admit had not thought of the
back of my car:-)
Sounds like it's straw bale time. Can you get your hands on some of
the nice, old fashioned bales of straw? You can rig a temp. cold
frame easily with those and they do provide some insulating value.
Run a few boards over them and drape with plastic and some old rugs
or blankets. You might even try a layer of bubble wrap or a few
sheets of Styrofoam insulation board on the top if those are
doubtfully hardy for you..I don't know that Digitalis.
Oddly enough, I have found that dormant perennials and even evergreen
azaleas come through fine in a sunken cold frame covered with black
plastic and a few layers of old rugs. No light until the thaw.
Strange, but it does work. They even come through uncovered in my
climate, but yours is much colder than mine.
Learned about this from a local nursery who piled all their unsold
pots of everything in the middle of the outdoor display area and
covered them with black plastic. You'd think it would kill them, but
they all survived to be displayed for sale the next year.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Meum71@aol.com
>
> I hate to admit it but I have done ALL of the things in the
Poem-and maybe
> few more I will not dare say.
>
>
> the next group of plants i might kill are the 30 Sistrinchium
striatum and
> 100 Digitalis davisiana i have had in the back of the car for the
last month-
> buts its getting to cold here to keep them there any longer and so
i need to
> find new place for them- the blue-eyed grass are going in the
fridge but
> what am i going to do with the fox gloves.
> there blooming sized potted plants so they do take up some room.
> alas - for the wish- to grow things i cannot have!
>
> Paul
>
>
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