RE: Winterizing Garden/Mulching
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Winterizing Garden/Mulching
- From: "* S* <S*@lhs.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:08:29 -0700
Re: Mulching....
One thing that I have learned is that you don't want to mulch too soon. As
the weather begins to cool down, the plants develop the internal changes and
hardiness that will help them get through the cold months. If you mulch,
too soon, you cover them with a warm blanket that makes them feel like
summer is lasting longer than it really is. Then, when hit with really cold
weather, they will be shocked.
Best bet is to let them adapt to the chill, mulching only when the actual
COLD threatens. In my case, this means late October,
Sue P.
SPesznec@lhs.org Portland, Oregon
(USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 6)
> ----------
> From: venies.place
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 1998 4:14 PM
> To: shadegardens; perennials; hosta-open; bckyrdgrdnr
> Subject: Winterizing Garden
>
> Have any of you started this process yet? I was thinking about it but it
> was 90 degrees yesterday and today. It is kind of hard to think about
> this
> when things are still blooming! When would you start this process? I am
> a
> newbie this year!
>
>
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