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

I agree with you.  I have lost lots of things that were planted in the
fall.  I live on the coast but zone 7 with lots of winter winds.
Heather on Vancouver Island
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>Valerie Lowery@ZEON
>12/21/98 01:26 PM
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Val in KY
>zone 6a
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