Re: plant lust/then longest blooming/now: Night Rescues
Zone 8 Oregon in the Umpqua Valley - this is unusual for us.
At 10:26 AM 12/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
>You didnt indicate your location.Here just west of Boise Idaho it was Zero( o
>deg.F.)18+degs below our average lows for this date.No snow cover I fear
for my
>newbies.
>Land of Fire & Frost
>Connie
>
>Karan Myers wrote:
>
>> Good morning, Brrr- it is 10 degrees this morning. I covered and moved a
>> lot of things Saturday, but am afraid for some of them. It is icy and
>> snowed and beautiful, but poor birds and my little jack rabbit that left
>> his foot prints is probably hungry. I covered everything with plastic and
>> news papers and haven't looked at them. It is supposed to snow again
>> tonight and hope the snow insulates everything. I live on the side of a
>> hill and the trees are wonderful for shade in the summer but get no sun
>> except very late afternoon and that is on the parking area. I hope you got
>> to save things. Fortunately I do have seeds of things.
>> Stay warm - my daughter brought me a survival kit Friday night - Diet Pepsi
>> and Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream :-) in case I got snowed in.
>> Karan
>>
>> At 12:40 PM 12/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> >Karan wrote:
>> >
>> >>>Hi, it's suppose to get down to the teens by Monday and stay in 30's
for a
>> >>>high. I am going to cover all of my plants with plastic and
newspapers and
>> >>>bring in containers. I will be doing this in the dark but I love it
and so
>> >>>far haven't lost anything!
>> >
>> >Then Doreen wrote:
>> >
>> > >Karan, I thought I was the only one on the planet out there gardening in
>> >>the dark of night. But its been so unseasonably warm with Christmas
lights
>> >>and summer flowers blooming side by side, then all of a sudden the temps
>> >>were said to go down to 22 and I just couldn't let some of them die. Of
>> >>course, by the time I'm home from work its dark, but there I was in the
>> >>dark trying to capture whatever I could digging up stuff and potting them
>> >>so I could bring them inside. And they really look good in my living room
>> >>next to the Poinsiettas.
>> >
>> >Now you know what it's like to garden in a cold climate. Most of my
rescues
>> >involve vegetables, because my perennial plantings are too extensive to be
>> >able to save in one mad rush. The Snake Light is one of the very best
>> >inventions for gardeners, because I used to have to pick peppers and
>> >tomatoes with a mini-Mag-light in my mouth...now, I can go out with a
Snake
>> >Light draped over my neck!! It's also great when you have to water at
>> >night, and need to move your sprinklers.
>> >
>> >Myrna, Zone 3, Montana (where we went from mid-60's on Thursday to minus 7
>> >today...with wind. I just can't believe that anything was very hardened
>> >off, so I anticipate much winter-kill....)
>> >
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>> Karan Myers
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