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Just got 2 Hot Cocoa roses..now what do I do?
Comments (12)Thanks, Mad, that's what I needed to understand. I'm in zone 6 and it gets pretty darn cold but winter is our driest time of the year so I don't have that problem. Even the snow is dry as weird as that sounds. The thing that is worst for my roses is the fluctuating temperatures. It can be 40 in the daytime and below zero at night. Or we can go a week or ten days in the teens and then have a week in the 30s and 40s. The roses get confused, try to bud out, then freeze, then thaw, back and forth. I've found that they can only do that so many times before the stored energy in the roots and canes just gives out and they die. Mulching them insulates them from that yo-yoing effect to some degree. I look for a hard freeze to get them dormant and then winter protect to try and keep them dormant until I know the temps will stay warm enough for them to start growing. Yes, Natural, you can winter protect pots. I have 30 (it was as high as 60 last winter) in pots that I've been winter protecting for 6 winters now. If you have a garage, and with only two to protect, I'd say put them in the unheated garage for the winter. Put them up on pot trolleys or blocks off the cement floor (Michaelg thinks I'm nuts about that BTW, lol) and remember to give them a little water every month. It's doesn't have to be a lot but they're dormant, not dead, and need some water. Desiccation will kill a rose quick too. A lot of people I know who garage their pots will take a shovel full of snow when they shovel their driveway and put it on the pots to water them. I do that with the one and only rose that will fit inside my shed, the tree rose. It gets the prized spot because I can't winter protect that top graft in the pot ghetto. All the rest of my pots winter outside on the back, south facing, wall of my house. I group them all together, drive in wood stakes, surround the whole thing with burlap and then pack it with leaves. In 6 years I've lost way more roses in the ground than in the pot ghetto. And those were usually sickly going in. And don't do it too early. I don't do mine until after Thanksgiving usually. Like I said you want to make sure they're completely dormant and then keep them dormant until night time temps are consistently above freezing. So don't get itchy in the spring (a bad habit of mine) and pull them out too soon either. Hope all that helps and if you have any other questions, ask away! Through trial and error I've done most everything you can do wrong but eventually figured some things out, lol!...See Morewanted: i just got the best package, thank you robin!
Comments (29)Robin, I am so sorry about your Dad and Julian, hope they are both better. Sounds like you have not had a very good day. When I tore into my package the first thing I saw was the colander, it is beautiful and will sit on my counter until needed and I will use it. You couldn't know how many times I have thought about ordering the ramekins, those are just perfect gifts for me! I love the microplane, just makes the one I bought look like, well what it is, a hand held grater. You know how much I will use the ladle, I am really excited about it, how handy and canning season is getting close! I said I would let DH claim the strawberry jam, well it is already almost gone, it is so good. I don't make strawberry jam, strawberries don't grow to well here. Vermont Maple grade B syrup, if you haven't tried it then you don't know what you are missing. I don't think I have ever tasted anything like it. I thought I had bought Vermont maple syrup, but it didn't taste anything like this. It is wonderful, I think I could drink it out of the can. Thank you again, Robin!...See MoreTOS - you just 'got it'
Comments (8)It depends on the situation. While I've heard many of you say EOW SM should stay out of decisions/advice regarding education or 'parental' advice, suppose the child is having problems at school. Not a learning disability, but motivation or social problems with peers. Suppose SM is a teacher and might have a better understanding of why SC is behaving a certain way because, as a teacher, she sees kids interacting all the time. She may deal with these problems all the time with other students. She may have advice that is useful to both parents. The same might be true for a stepmom that has grown children. She may see things in the situation that she's already been through with her own kids. She could share what worked and what didn't work with her own kids. Giving advice is just that, advice. It's not telling them what to do. That would be different. But, giving advice is no different than a mom that tells her co-workers what's going on and they tell her their 'advice'. She can take from it what she wants and disregard what she likes. However, I see that when it's a stepmom that gives advice, the mom is more likely to be offended that stepmom dared to have an opinion or give advice on "HER" child. Stepmom should mind her own business. and it's that bonehead thinking that causes a lot of these conflicts that happen in stepfamilies. If a well meaning stepmom offers up advice, even if you think she's full of sh*t, if it's taken like the advice a co-worker or lady at the bus stop might give you and move on instead of using it to start world war 3, there would probably be less conflict. How about saying "thank you for your opinion/advice/suggestion" and then deal with it how you want. Completely disregard it if you want. Act like a grown up. I agree a stepmom should never interject herself in the final decision unless it's going to have a profound impact on HER, such as she's going to be the one caring for the child or driving the child, etc. But, she is a part of the child's life and has the right to her opinion, just like the lady at the bus stop....See MoreDo any of you just "Wing it?"
Comments (15)Like everything else about me and my life, it depends. (grin) Like Lars, I like to base my meals on items in season, what's ready in the garden, what I have an abundance of. Tomato season? It's going to be BLTs or a plate of tomatoes and mozzarella. Just picked up pork from the processor? Pork chops or pulled pork. An overflow of eggs? Omelets or quiche. I do have the luxury of producing most of my own food, so even in the winter I can open the freezer and find homegrown beef, pork, chicken, sometimes duck or wild caught fish. The fun part of that is deciding what to do with "parts" like the oxtail or a package of smoked pork hocks, pigs aren't all chops and bacon and a steer only has so many steaks. A trip to the pantry for homecanned vegetables and a stop at the root cellar for potatoes, onions, carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, whatever, and I'm good to go. I do tend to change or make up recipes as I go along. I need to make better notes because sometimes I change recipes and the results are good enough to replicate, if only I could remember... Annie...See More- 7 years ago
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