Warm winters, cold winters
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Keeping Fruit Plants Warm During Winter (zone 9)
Comments (1)b-foo, If you only need to protect the roots. I have used a thick layer of mulch around the pot. The mulch will insulate and also produce its own heat while it decomposes. Also I have used Styrofoam taped to the pot as well as over the pot top. Also, for short periods, I have used thick storage blankets. JMHO Aloha...See MoreHelp me keep my hoyas warm this winter
Comments (22)I think you've done a fine job, Thirston! She should definately appreciate that you are taking her needs into concideration also. I agree too, that watering could be a problem in those style pots. There are many fine and reasonably priced pots for indoor use available at stores like Target, Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. Appealing to her decorating sense, maybe she would enjoy the challenge of finding some nice decorative pots for winter use on those plants. Done up right, plants can actually ADD much to the beauty of a home. If you go to many open houses, you will see that decorators use plants all the time to spruce up the scheme of the rooms. There are all sorts of ways to do it. Of course, what you have done already is fine and looks very nice also. I think that is a perfect window for plants. I was just thinking of the watering issues. Did you get them all in? If you have more to deal with, you could also think of a friend that may want to have a plant or two & give some away. Of course...come spring..you will want them all back. Ha Ha Marcy...See MoreSuggestions for WARM winter gloves.
Comments (38)Sheesharee, Yes Raynaulds is something that one has symptoms for all year around. Air conditioning is hard on me, and grocery shopping in the frozen food cooler makes my hands get cold. I sleep on a heated mattress pad year round. If I can't get warm I won't fall asleep. Will sometimes wear slippers (LLBean wicked good are the best!) and my robe under the covers in bed. At a social event I MUST have a couple of bar napkins around my drink or my hand will get really cold. I don't even refrigerate my bottled water, because I don't like to drink it cold. Room temp is better. Last week at the Royals game 7 world series game (whoooo hoooo) most people had on jeans and a t shirt with a sweatshirt for later. I had on wool socks, fry 12 inch cowboy boots, jeans, cami, merino wool thin sweater, T shirt over that to start the game. By the time the game ended, I had on all of that, along with a neck scarf, puffer vest, wind block fleece, knit hat, knit gloves with those hand warmer packets inside. My husband still just had on his jeans, t shirt, and sweatshirt. If this sound like you, then you may have Raynauld's. Interestingly enough, it often runs in families, and also often in people with low heart rate and blood pressure. I just know I have it, and plan ahead as much as I can. I don't buy any fall/winter clothes that are "cute and bare" because I will never wear them....See Morewarm, warm, hot winter in Columbus, OH
Comments (9)I'm having a slow day, and Ken's response above has motivated me to talk about winter. So, what is winter? It depends entirely on the definition you use. The one we usually encounter in the mainstream press is the one I find the least useful: winter is the time between the winter solstice and the spring equinox (i.e. around December 21st to around March 21st in the Northern hemisphere). I think there are two far more logical definitions: meteorological winter is the coldest three months of the year (December, January, and February in the Northern Hemisphere); solar winter is the quarter of the year when the sun is lowest in the sky (between around November 6th and February 6th in the Northern hemisphere). Using the meteorological definition, the middle of winter is in the middle of January. Using the solar definition, the middle of winter is the winter solstice on December 21st. So, depending on your definition, December 21st either marks the beginning of winter, a random day in the first third of winter, or the middle of winter. If you are wondering when sunscreen might be necessary for an outdoor excursion, it would be wise to keep solar winter (and solar summer - between May 6th and August 6th) in mind. If you want to know when it's going to be coldest, use the meteorological definition. I can't think of a good reason to use the astronomical definition (solstice to equinox), yet it won't go away. Maybe somebody can convince me why it's useful....See Moreharborrose_pnw
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