a freeze warning tonight..my non hostas are in..
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Freezing Rain and 10x12 HFGH!
Comments (23)Hi Nancy! Although I grew up in Sonoma Co, I haven't lived there since '95. The last place was out off of Bodega Hwy, west of Sebastopol. I still have relatives in the area and my brother lives in Penngrove. I still live by vinyards as well. There is one across the street and several down the road. Sonoma Co has been sort of home base since '68. Whenever we moved , we always still had a house there. We sold completely out of the area in '95. I've been up here for about five yrs and we sold out of Ca completely last March. I still love that area, even though most of what I knew and loved is gone. Even the parts of the Palm Springs area that I loved are gone! Congrats on the length of your marrage by the way! My parents have been married for 41yrs. You don't see a lot of long marrages anymore! I don't know how much you've been following or how long. Other than being far too busy, my largest issue has been trying to cover ALL of my bases in chosing a greenhouse. I'm actually glad that I delayed one more year. It's so easy to forget, during summer, exactly how much water and snow that I get. Many close potential building sites are either far too wet or stay far too cold/frozen all winter. All of the best places are taken, by the house, barns, etc. Something's gotta give up some room!! I don't know if you read some of my earier musings. It gives some ideas that I'm wanting, worrying and fussing over! I really want the effort to go into the planning and construction, not continual repairs and climate maintenance! I want some size for the climate stability.(I'm also greedy and want the space!) Scott Here is a link that might be useful: Sustainable Solar Greenhouses...See MoreCovering trees for freeze warning with rain/snow mix?
Comments (23)Whaas... check this out: http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/raws_ca_monitor.cgi?rawsflag=290&state=MKX&type=0amp;orderby=e&day1=3&month1=1&year1=2012&hour1=21&timeobs=12 Local station reports around your area. On the 24-hour column you can see how low it got. The lowest I see is 25. Most places were warmer. Hard for weather.com or accuweather.com to report lower than the data they get. Anyway, the Federal Government (National Weather Service) issues Freeze Warnings, not the commercial weather companies (weather.com is The Weather Channel and accuweather.com is AccuWeather, Inc). So they aren't covering for themselves. Its possible you live in an unusually cold location. Also, thermometer placement makes a difference... its usually several degrees colder right at the ground level as opposed to 5 feet above ground level. Standard thermometer height is 5 feet....See MoreNWS Issues Freeze Warning
Comments (7)I live in northeast OK in a small city, and our coldest morning temps have not dipped down to 32 F. degrees, yet this spring. NWS recently raised our forecasted coldest overnight temp to 33. That must be due to all the cloud cover which is moving in late this afternoon. So far, all I did yesterday is to bring into the garage some young potted clematis and 4 pots of cannua tubers that I did not already plant, due to those cannas only recently sending up small green shoots. Of the other 8 pots of cannas tubers I over wintered in protected pots and that sent up a good amount of green growth two weeks ago, I already planted 7 pots at a friends house and sent one of them home with my daughter who lives in the DFW area. For tonight My friend will cover the cannas we planted. Tomorrow afternoon I plan to cover with lots of mulch my newly emerging hostas and to quite deeply refresh the mulch on a lengthy, berm, which I have been filling with shrubs and flowers for the last few years. But I plan to wait until tomorrow's early evening to use bubble wrap and tie lawnbags, to among other things, wrap my young trees: (Smoke tree, Red Dawn 'Gold Rush' redwood tree, three-trunked paperbark maple, hibiscus 'Blue Satin' tree, two chaste trees, and a Japanese Stewarta) along with some young shrubs like my 'Miss Kim' lilacs, 'Awakening' rose climber, and some young shrub roses. which have already leafed out. Any plastic or bubble wrap will be removed during the day when temps are above freezing and replaced overnight as long as the forecasts predict temps to fall down to 32 or the high 20s. Hopefully, I am not waiting too late to protect the above listed items....See MoreCan Hosta Push Other Hosta Out of the Way?
Comments (15)Jon - No crispy edges on either T-Rex or Blue Mammoth. At least not that I remember, AS the years have gone by and much to my amazement the near by trees keep sending out more and more leaves. A this time there are moments in the afternoon where there is nearly no sun. Frankielynniise - I had to confront the Management Company here finally because the first and very promising spike on Empress Wu suddenly VANISHED and what was left was a slight indentation as to where it had been. What I equated to someone slicing the spike BELOW the surface with a pocket knife. Ihad told them previous that I felt that the plant was suffering (at that time) presumably from a critter under the garden. The crttter became unconfirmed as the burrow that I thought I had seen last fall during the planting of Fire and Ice had 100% disappeared. Nature made a horrid fool out of me in front of BOTH the management company AND the exterminator. Previous to this post I was so agitated that I was nearly in a state of depression. Beverlymnz4 - I’ve taken note of your comments. Hard to respond at this point Babka NorCal 9b - I had not been aware that Crown Rot could still leave a vestiges of a survivable plant. I had been told previously that crown rot would take any living part of the plant after it took hold of the plant. Thank you for correcting my knowledge about Crown Rot. I do understand that different hosta come up at different times of the spring; I generally give my plants until June to spike; and that the ‘bumps are dormant buds. AT that time I replanted the buds to give them a chance to grow (they never did). As for plants sinking … .The ground seems to be pretty solid; so I would doubt that they would sink, although I suppose it is possible (thinks hard). I’ve planted hosta for years and now often check the crown line of the plant before putting it into the soil to insure that the line is slightly below the surface of the surrounding soil + not more than an inch. This season has been an horrid season form my smaller hosta [Church Mouse, Holy Mouse Ears, Frosted Mouse Ears, and Little Sunspot in particular] have all surfaced to raise the crown line to not more than 1/2 inch ABOVE the soil. At first I was concerned, but since then they have all spiked, leafed, and currently looking O.K. Never seen this in hosta before. Peter Kelley - St Paul, MN USA...See Morenicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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