Has any one in zone 6 successfully overwintered pansies?
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Comments (12)couple thoughts ... you can avoid a lot of 'cures' .. by avoiding stuff first.. i sterilize EVERYTHING ... including the media.. PRIOR to starting the project ... everything gets washed down with 10% bleach.. and the media is temp sterilized 'see link] ... you avoid a lot of bugs and disease.. once you insure you arent starting with them ... and i dont care what the bag claimed.. do it yourself ... second.. though zen has this all in front of a window.. i am pretty sure.. that is a heat mat.. to keep the media warm ... 24/7 ... things do NOT root freely in cold media ... and what you have to think about there.. is how cold the house gets at night ... the plants cant spend 12 hours in a wonderfully warm greenhouse.. and then night in a fridge ... you have to maintain approx'ly 70 degree media ... plus or minus ... round the clock ... its all much easier.. on a plant stand.. especially for those of us in colder zones.. you can manage heat and light easier ... if you can control a variable.. you can beat it.. rather than having 5 grey winter days in a row in MI in jan/feb .... and then you are suicidal.. and the plants commit such ... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link...See MoreOverwintering Dahlias in Zone 6 - looking for help
Comments (14)you get your straw.. near halloween.. when it is stocked for fall garden displays .. you know.. the bale.. the pumkins.. the cornucopia ... and when the cold weather hits.. use the display .. to cover the garden ... in fact.. i have been known to garbage pick some bales. in early nov ... free for the taking at the curb ... when they harvest the crop.. the big john deere cuts off the top .. with the seed.. and makes money ... the 'second cutting' ... is the straw ... which in theory.. has no seed ... it is nearly literally .. a hollow stalk .. aka straw ... adn man.. these things will cut you.. long sleeves and jeans and leather gloves .... when tossing it around the third product.. is an animal food.. forage ??? ... which these days are usually those huge rolls ... which includes the whole plant.. like the cow or horse.. might eat out in the pasture ... usually with a high percent of alfalfa.. though for the small time operator.. still sold in convenient bales ... the cheapest of them all is straw.. aka bedding stuff.. it has little inherent value.. as to its food value.. wow.. i know way to much about this.. for a city boy.. lol .. BTW.. this is one of those trick questions.. where you can really delineate the knowledge base of you nurseryman or garden friends.. if the guy selling it .... doesnt have a clue what you are talking about.. that should tell you something ... like.. questioning EVERYTHING else.. he spreads around as manure.. lol .. i always ... thought denn was IN MI... so i always thought he was a guy .. but then he said something girlie.. in some post.. and then i got really confused.. lol .. try to man up dude.. lol .. and no.. i dont remember the specifics ... lol ken...See MoreLemon verbena overwintering in garage,Zone 6b?
Comments (3)I live in a 6a type climate. My lemon verbena makes it outdoors just fine. In fact all my herbs survive outside. Kind of wish the lemon balm would die but it just will not. Northern NV is not a kind climate by any stretch....See Moreoverwintering Rosemary zone 6
Comments (11)I’m checking in on this thread seven years later (!) hoping someone has had some zone 6 success with Arp! I just got one from a highly reputable nursery here in southern New England (Logee’s in CT) and have it in a slightly raised bed with two boxwood flanking it for some protection. The garden is fenced on all sides and southern facing. We have such damp winters here, I’m worried—my experience with a plant labeled “arp” from Bonnie Plants via Home Depot (ya, i know) was a failure. That plant did not look at all like the tall, silvery Arp rosemary I got from Logee’s, so I’m hoping it was Mis-labeled. I’m curious about soil amendments—sand and gravel—and possibly a stretch Of exposed stone to the south that could collect & reflect heat in those deep winter days? My neighbor’s rosemary survives this past winter—it’s more and more like DC here in Rhode Island every year 😳 I’m taking cuttings indoors anyway ......See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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