CLXI Early Frosts and Sunny Days

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starting veggies early...
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Row cover fabric breathes. Air and moisture move easily back and forth through it. Any heating benefits from it are minimal and transient. Its frost protection comes from preventing direct air contact with the leaves. Plastic on the other hand does NOT breathe. Instead it traps and holds heat and moisture so the benefits from using it for the purpose of early planting far exceeds any you would gain from using row covers. Plastic tunnels are relatively easy to maintain. You just have to open the tunnel ends in the morning before leaving for work and then close them down before sunset. Once "early gardening" time becomes "normal gardening" time the tunnels are removed or the plastic is replaced with row cover fabric. Dave
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So where are you, just above the Arctic circle? That's ok, the dark is long enough here around the winter solstice.....
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The following web address is an article posted by another member I followed about outdoor winter care. Although we had a mild winter, my basjoos were sprouting up in Feburary. MY Ice Cream and Black thai came up in late Spring. I also garage kept bananas, Queens, Sago and Pygmy Date Palms and my Palms actually leafed some except for my Sago's.My Sagos lost all their leaves but flushed once I put them outside in the Spring. I thought my Sagos had died.My garage kept Bananas stoped growing except for one that leafed. However this was my second year to keep plants in my garage and had better success than the first year.I did a better job with light and watering but still was unsure if I was over or under watering. I believe my garage temperature stayed in the upper 50's to low 60's most of the winter. Like Chad mentioned, I put a couple of pups in the garage as back-up but did not need them. I will do the same this year and have aquired some more light fixtures to install. The Basjoos I wintered outside was really nice to have alrady growing and filling-out in March when we had some nice days to sit outside. I had the tropical look going for me in March while other plants where just getting started. http://www.plantdelights.com/Banana-Trees-for-the-Garden/products/494/
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I planted out two pumpkins last week (I know, it's early), and they were fine, even though I didn't do anything to them last night. It occurs to me (now, LOL) I could put pop bottle cloches over them. I think any frosts we have now will be light. And watch out later this week - the annoying thing I've seen is that the weather services will say lows of low 40's, then at about 10:00 at night they'll change it to frost advisory - what's with that? Can't they get that info any sooner than that? Running around in the back yard in the dark with sheets to cover my trays is not my idea of amusing. Well, ok, it is amusing.
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carolyn_ky
11 years ago
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann

A friend loaned me this, knowing I like mysteries. I found it to be about the worst one I ever read.
leel
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Animal Farm--George Orwell
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Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
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The Apples of New York S. A. Beach
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The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
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Beans: A History - Ken Albala
kathy_t
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The Baked Bean Supper Murders - Virginia Rich
(This yellowed paperback has been on my shelf for years. I've not read it.)
phyllis__mn
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The Man Who Stayed to Supper.....Sydney Horler
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Who Hears the Wind? - Roland Zars
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
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Berlin Noir, Philip Kerr
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Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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Swede Dreams - Eva Apelqvist
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Scandinavian Fruits and Vegetables - Robert Fitzsimmonds

(do you eat swedes in the US?)
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Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

(well, Canadians eat swedes, aka rutabagas. Pretty sure citizens of the U.S. do also)
dido1
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The Doll's House - Ibsen
(apparently, the French don't eat parsnips. What are they missing!)
kathy_t
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A Painted House - John Grisham
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The Painted Lady Butterfly - Evelyn Sharp

(dido the French don't like to be reminded of WWII when they, rather than their animals, were forced to eat root vegetables. The same way we don't enjoy whale-meat over here. But parsnips are much nicer than whale!)
dido1
11 years ago
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
(I don't remember tasing whale, Vee, though maybe I did when very young, in WW2. But I love parsnips)
kathy_t
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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
salix
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
phyllis__mn
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Unbroken....Laura Hillenbrand (the story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini and his time as a WWII prisoner of war)
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Death Be Not Proud...John Gunther
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Death Comes to the Archbishop Willa Cather
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A Death in the Family - James Agee
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A Candle for Grandpa - David Techna
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Too Late the Phalarope - Alan Paton

(p.s. Where is Liz/ Lemonhead?
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The Big Year...Mark Obmascik
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Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
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