How cold is too cold for peppers, summer squash?
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How cold is too cold for geese? Winter feed?
Comments (1)Have you tried them on scratch? Preferably one with several grains rather than just corn. Geese can be picky. Mine won't touch corn, tolerate scratch some of the time and most of the time will only eat the organic layer mash I buy for the chickens. Grazing is best for geese, of course, but in winter the turf just isn't enough. This is my second winter with geese and I worry too. Just posted about rehydrating alfalfa hay for them. I find they eat grains better too when I soak them. As far as the cold... they can take quite a bit, but it is good if they have a place they can get to that is out of the wind. I always put mine in their house at night and on a handful of really severe days keep them in completely. They hate it, but there isn't much out there for them anyway and MOMMA KNOWS BEST. If your geese are the kind with the knob on their bills, please note that they can get frostbitten there and that it can be serious. I am not familiar with the Chinese/African/Egyptian type of geese... I like the "goosely geese" descended from the European graylag. I have three Pilgrims and an American Buff. So I can't be more specific about the frostbite question. You'll find a good discussion of geese and winter feed in this old thread. Here is a link that might be useful: Geese - Winter feeding...See MoreHow cold is too cold?
Comments (3)Digdirt, hit it. Plants vary. I don't consider it "stunting". Plants will wait until the right temperature/light cycle to take off, as long as they are not damaged. Or just search "cosmos cold tolerance" (example) for each of your plants. One site says cosmos will tolerate 35 degrees. The link below doesn't really pertain, but you can find similar that might. A lot of studies have been produced on the matter. Bob Here is a link that might be useful: frost tolerance...See Morehow cold is too cold?
Comments (17)You folks kinda "frost me" with a bit of jealously ... because I'm just over the climate cliff, with a solid week of 22 F already this season. Hopefully it's over for winter. (Worst I've seen in last 15 yr is 17 F.) I'm in z8b with cool PNW summers. So I'm currently forgetting anything outdoors with limbs and am testing 1' plant base "stubs" with cold frame protection this winter. At 22 F outside it did not freeze inside at ground level. Next year plan to also try just dry fallen leaves and top tarp to save stubs. Also testing a whole main limb structure stored in our ~40 F garage along with backup cuttings, which I will soon start. Below is 'Frosty Pink' vs 'Little Angel' on the the day before the first hard freeze. It started with a heart breaking "wack em down" step. This was in late Nov with a few prior weeks of below 45 F night temps. BTW the 'Frosty Pink' cutting had finally got big enough above the Y to have its 2nd flower flush. 'Little Angel' in contrast had been blooming since mid summer and still was pumping out, now less full, flowers on the talker stem, with head more exposed to cold breezes. Compare with lower flowers on the backup plant. Note plants more green during the summer. They are cold stressed here (click photo, they're not quite that stressed). BTW this location is my Wife's favorite late summer "hammock spot" l, with these two Brugs at the footend. One poor 4.5' 'Little Angel' tub test is also currently in the garage, in the dark, and not being watered. Essentially leafless now, but with healthy fat stems ... it's pumped out a few half sized flowers in the dark! Past year photos. Another LA cutting from this same plant in a tub planter, in August. BTW this LA only received 3-4 direct summer sun midday in this location. This is a cool forested yard in Woodinville, WA. A lawn chair here put next to this tubbed plant placed that top leaf leaf node at hair level ... yep, my evening "Incense(d)" area. LA grows fast and has a flower or bud at every node, with staged nodes always visible for the next 2 to 4 flush cycles. She also throws a few flowers between flushes. So once it starts LA is always in bloom for us. "Floral attack*" gets exciting from mid summer onwards ... with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... but I've not yet made it further outdoors before frost, when starting from a same year cutting. LA is a VERY nice fragrance plant so you need to strategically place that lawn chair to get just the right exposure. Truly mind boggling when you want it! My style. (Should it be legal sitting that close without a license?) I saved a few nice cuttings for trades....See MoreHow cold is too cold for peppers
Comments (18)Have you tried growing veggies in straw bales? They generate heat as they "ripen up". I start my garden in March. I live in Colorado. I condition them for approx. 2 weeks, watering just the bales, and add granular fertilizer every other day. They get warm and juicy as the nitrogen kicks in, and when I feel heat coming out of them, they are ready to plant in. I just use a knife to cut a hole the same size as the roots, or the pot the plants came in. I pull out the straw, put in the plant, then use the removed straw to mulch around each plant. For seed, I just add one inch of soil to the top of the bales, working it in slightly, then plant seeds according to packet instructions. Roots systems of plants go crazy, having a free roam, compared to soil. Zero weeding. No bending or kneeling. My tomatoes lasted through November, with the last 98 of them picked from the top of a ladder...I couldn't reach them. So far, everything seems to love the bales. I love them too....See More2ajsmama
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