Re: [gardeners] Seed Starting Box

Virginia Prinns (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:07:19 -0800 

dHi Lucinda.

Think I'd pot up all your bulbs (you can layer them)  Then shovel aside 
the snow, thaw the ground with hot water to make a hole, then bury 
pot(s) deeply and cover with soil & snow again.  I just did this with 
some lily bulbils that I found the other day so we will see if it works 
up here (where Pronce George is far warmer than the prairies at the mo).

I have planted bulbs late in Ontario and had no probs.  Once you get 
through the frozen crust the ground is soft enough to dig. (sometimes)


If you are unsure about this, why not pot up and leave in garage for a 
few weeks, then bring pots into house one at a time for inside bloom and 
plant bulbs outside in the spring.  

Cheerss  Ginny in PG   
> Will this work for tulips and daffodils?  I have a bucket of unplanted ones
> in the basement.  Winter came very unexpectedly.....
> 
> Lucinda
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> >Happy new year to all.
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> >Ginny in Prince George where my sibes are under 6 ft or so of shovelled
> >snow.
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> >drusus@golden.net wrote:
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> >> At 08:43 AM 04-01-99 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >At 10:36 AM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >>Around here the Mennonite farmers use bottom heat -- a layer of
> manure.  It
> >> >>need not touch the planting soil.  It heats up pretty effectively and
> >> >>accomplishes early sprouting from a different angle.  Lucinda, Canada
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> >> >Lucinda, I think this is called a hotframe or something opposite of
> >> >coldframe.  Do you have any idea how deep the manure layer is and how long
> >> >it stays hot?  I'm hoping you know someone to ask, not measure the depth
> >> >yourself.  Margaret
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> >> This make take awhile to find out, Margaret.  I haven't the foggiest idea
> >> if there is any specific ratio between poop and dirt.  All I can say now is
> >> most of the boxes I've seen are for cabbage and are slapped together from
> >> old lumber, average size about 8 inches deep, 2-4 feet long and one or 2
> >> rows wide.  Sometimes they are set on a pile of manure which looks to be
> >> about 6 inches thick but it's underneath the box, not on the bottom inside.
> >>  All this is on a plaform of some sort or at least raised up (warms up
> >> faster) off the ground.
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> >> Kay must know a lot about poop.  How much does it take for a hotframe?
> >>
> >> Lucinda
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