Re: [gardeners] questions
Harry Boswell (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:43:41 -0600
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From: "Lorraine Richardson" <Lorraine_Richardson@furrs.com>
To: <gardeners-digest@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 10:20 AM
Subject: [gardeners] questions
> Hi,
> Well, Christmas isn't even here yet and I'm about to die of
> spring fever. I'm still able to work in the garden, I live in
> Albuquerque, zone 6 I think, anyhow I've got some questions.
> I'm building double-dug beds and the ground isn't frozen yet,
> because of the sun I don't think it actually does freeze out here.
> But I'm wondering if I should stop digging until spring, somewhere
> I thought I read that it's bad for the soil structure to dig it up when
> it's frozen (or close to frozen).
> I'm also building row cover hoops, with rebar hammered into the
> ground and plastic pipe hooped over it. I've got two questions about
> that. Somewhere on the net I saw these clips that clip over the plastic
> onto the hoop, like if you had plastic pipe that was really thin-walled
> so you could cut it with scissors into two-inch long pieces and then
> cut them length wise. The only thing I can think of to use is old garden
> hose, can you all think of anything that might work better and cost
> close to nothing?
old garden hose should work find, in fact probably better than anything
else you could come up with - except maybe if you could find some
old drip-irrigattion hoses made from recycled tires (like the drip
hoses Walmart sells) - these might be more pliable in cold weather,
in case you needed to remove them for some reason.
> Last question - if I've already planted daffodil, garlic, onion, and tulip
> bulbs in some of my beds, would it be a bad idea to hoop-cover those
> beds and try to grow an early lettuce crop there? Do you think it would
> cause the bulbs to come up early, and if so, would they rot?
> Thanks yall...
I would think you would end up forcing them. I would grow the lettuce
somewhere else.