Re: [gardeners] Letting go for the winter

Bargyla Rateaver (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:56:07 +0100 

well, having grown up in the tropics, natually I think people how like snow are
-----well, poor things, let them live too. After Armageddon, all the world will
be green all the time, I hope, I hope I hope. Well, not really, I suppose, since
it says : summer and winter and cold and heat----
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Terry King wrote:

> Lived there half my life, in fact I was born there.  I love the land but I
> don't like so many people, the politics, rude drivers, and the fog so I just
> visit a couple of time a year. :-D
>
> I like a variety of decisive weather- hot in summer and cold in winter
> etc...  if you'll pardon the expression, to me fog is half a*ssed weather.
> I'm young still so maybe someday I'll get tired of the cold and the
> adventures of snow.
>
> Terry
> E. WA. USDA zone 4, Sunset zone 1
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > [mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Bargyla Rateaver
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:00 AM
> > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > Subject: Re: [gardeners] Letting go for the winter
> >
> >
> > why do people live in COLD country?  when there is california
> >
> > Terry King wrote:
> >
> > > I broke down my barrel pond yesterday.  We have had night time
> > temps in the
> > > low 20's this past week so it was time.  I always have a hard
> > time letting
> > > the pots on my deck go in the fall.  I've been covering some at
> > night and
> > > bringing other inside.  My Gartenmeister and varigated fushias are just
> > > starting really look good and bloom so they are now in the
> > house.  DH has
> > > been away all weekend and I don't know what he's going to say
> > when he comes
> > > home to find a 1/2 barrel with my fish, lysmanchia, houttyunia
> > and confetti
> > > pennywort along with my pot of canna and all my fushia pots in
> > the house.  I
> > > grouped the barrel, my scented geraniums, cannas and
> > Gartenmeister fushia in
> > > front of the sliding glass door. If I disappear after today you know he
> > > locked me a closet. Wait, we don't have closets, so it will
> > probably be the
> > > dog house. <just kidding>  Of course he's used to me doing
> > things like this.
> > > I think I'll need to set up a grow light over the pond even
> > though its in
> > > front of the glass door my experience has been the plant won't receive
> > > enough light to keep from getting leggy by Feb.  I still need to find a
> > > place to put my two pots with the Firecracker hardy fushias,
> > two kinds of
> > > ipomea vines and lotus vines.  I'll probably have to set up my
> > grow lights
> > > again upstairs.
> > >
> > > If the sun comes out today I want to get the bulbs planted and
> > the flower
> > > beds cleaned up and mulched for winter.  I also need to get the
> > 7 lbs of new
> > > garlic planted that I just picked up from Filaree Farm.  Two years ago I
> > > lost all my garlic when we had a sudden early freeze in Sept.
> > (14 degrees
> > > with no warning and few lighter frosts) while my garlic was
> > still hanging in
> > > an outside shed.  This year I'm replanting my two reliables-
> > Spanish Roja
> > > and Romanian Red and I'm trying Chet's again as a softneck as
> > it did do well
> > > for me last time.  I'm also trying two new varieties - Killarney Red and
> > > Carpathian, both hardneck rocambole types.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > > E. WA. zone 4
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bargyla Rateaver
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~brateaver
> >
> >

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