Re: plant lust/then longest blooming/now: Night Rescues





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
12/21/98 01:26 PM

All of this talk about early snows and cold snaps has me wondering about
the conventional thought of planting new stuff in the fall of the year.
I've learned the hard way that planting in the fall is not a good thing
here in KY (unless we're talking bulbs, of course).  I've lost a lot of
stuff this way by our constantly swinging weather.  Example:  it's about
near 60 today with a high of about 30 tommorrow.  This is a typical pattern
and can cause heaving if you don't mulch well.  It can also trick your
young plants into thinking it's spring and they'll have fragile new growth
that will surely die.

I plant newbies in the spring when the other plants are up and forming
little rosettes of leaves.  Granted it might not show much the first year,
but at least it has a chance of coming back the following years.

Anyone else debunk the "plant-in-the-fall" rule?  Is this just a regional
thing?  I find that most gardening books are written by people who live
along the coasts and not by those living in regions such as mine.

Val in KY
zone 6a


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