On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:54:25, George Shirley wrote: >What's cooking in everyone's gardens right now? Nothing! Its still covered in snow. :-D I did move my stored roses outside. I have a protected corner on the south side of my house were a "foyer" like entry sticks out. The hat and weedX I put down last summer is still there. I angled a board across the corner and set my 4 potted roses in the corner, stuffed as much straw as I possibly could around the pots and plants. I then covered it all with a burlap sack, 3 layers of reemay and 2 old acrylic blankets. It been down to 14 degrees and the new shoots are still ok so it looks like this will work. Funny/amazing thing was when I moved a 1 gal pot that had been sitting unmoved since last summer, there was a live earthworm under it! Spring is coming! Terry King North Central Eastern Washington taeking@televar.com USDA zone 4, Sunset Zone 1