Re: [gardeners] gardeners Digest V1 #384
Marianne Darke (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:04:50 -0700
Mary-Anne,
Where in the Bay Area are you? I'm a lurker & learner also in the Bay Area
- currently in Berkeley.
Marianne Darke
At 12:29 AM -0500 12/9/98, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/9/98 5:05:09 AM, owner-gardeners-digest@globalgarden.com
>writes:
>
><<Penny, NY >>
>
>Dear Penny,
>
>Usually for a few nights we cover fragile plants like citrus, Rosemary, etc.
>with black plastic, but this was so unexpected and about three months before
>this normally happens if at all.
>
>I really am sad that I was a day late in transplanting my beloved chile plants
>into pots to bring indoors to over-winter. Do you think if I were to do this
>now there could be life left? Some are really rare ones from India, Thailand
>etc., and due to our cool and wet summer hadn't hardly bloomed or produced
>this season. *sigh*
>
>We Californians don't know how to garden in a short-cool-wet season that is
>snapped by bitter coldness. For us 27 or 28F is VERY cold.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mary-Anne