And...everybody back inside!!!
Share your pics of ”the great cover-up of May 2022.” We can even do before-and-afters if there is a decent snow
squash, peppers etc:
Peach, with tomatoes and cukes under pot and WOWs:
Pear (only one side has set fruit and is thus worth saving)
How about you?
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Comments (4)15*C is not cold for plants...and few hours of rain will not hurt them either. Unless it is lots of rain. I mean lots! Photos I posted in 'After few days of rain...'thread are of succulents being outside, in rain, for nearly 3 days. It rained for few hours yesterday, and also today - plants are in exactly same place. But they are in well draining mix. And it has been as warm as 25*C, dropping down to 9*C for few hours overnight....See MoreBack inside for the winter
Comments (5)I've overwintered tomatoes - but not to continue harvest, just kept them dormant. I suppose if your place is warm and you've got a good light setup it could be done....See MoreInside of kitchen cabinets -- no backs!
Comments (19)Our old builder cabinets had no backs either. However, they were 'painted' with one coat of spray primer and a very thin coat of flat paint. The combo was good for collecting dust and smudges and not much else so we repainted not long after we moved in. Just used eggshell/satin paint in Behr Swiss Coffee and a paint brush since it was difficult to get the roller in there. The cabinets were white inside and out so that worked. You could do similar to yours....See MoreColder mornings are back. Are some of your plants back inside yet?
Comments (165)Bill, YES, they are prehistoric and NO, did not grow them from seeds, but can you believe I have had some of them for 40 years. They grow in flushes, they will look like varnished plastic and then within two weeks sprout a new crown of some 6-20 new leaves. So they are FAST within the period of new growth, and in Florida, can have two growth spurts per season. They also sucker, so there will be more of them for propagation. They are pretty easy but are NOT house plants..., NEED TO BE OUTSIDE. I have serious DEER and this plant is DEFINITELY NEVER gonna be touched by any deer..., maybe a dinosaur. When the leaves first emerge they are very vulnerable to damage and by the end of week two they are indestructible, unless you are a dinosaur. Not sure of hardiness..., maybe 15 F and I am going down to 25 F but they are valuable now, and plants in containers are never as hardy in a pot as in the ground. One of my gardening themes is paleobotany (prehistoric plants), thus, the cycads, ferns, magnolias, Japanese plum yews (Cephalotaxus), Araucaria (Monkey Puzzle), Gingko biloba, and Dawn Reds (Metasequoia). I guess the modern world ain't really doing it for me, LOL. My Japanese Bloodgood Maple is one of our favorite trees and it too drops leaves very late toward the end of November. But at least THIS year they turned red and did not linger on the tree as frozen brown leaves for the winter, they do that some years if it's too warm in Autumn, which it was this year, but they did not freeze. My gingko goes from solid green to yellow debris it seems in a day. I hear you about the Sweet Gum, never had one but my neighbor is still bitchin' about his after decades of separation from it. Here is a pic of one of the C. revoluta plants. Also grow Zamia, Encephalartos and Dioon among the cycad genera....See More
Jerry (Broomfield CO 5)
last yearDid not cover clematis, iris, pansies, lettuce, rosemary, thyme or calif poppies. I guess that we will see how that works out.
Tomatoes not yet out of the WOW, can jsut close up the WOW (6)
Tomatoes growing out the top of the WOW, experimenting with adding HD bucket over the WOW (10). The small plastic cloches are on pepper plants
1 year old grape vine
Mature grape vine
New leaf-out on grape vines supposedly is damaged at 27 degrees.gardengrl66 z5 thanked Jerry (Broomfield CO 5)gardengrl66 z5
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last yearThe view out the dining room window this morning:
However, one hour later the sun is out and we’ve got serious melting going on!
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last yearThursday evening:
Saturday morning:
We got about 12". I covered as many things as I had buckets for, for snow weight as much as cold. I didn't try to do anything to the 4' tall peony that was about to bloom...
Looking out the windows this morning we see one broken branch on a big maple and another on our 40 year old apple tree, which isn't too bad.
I did pick some popsicle flowers in the sleet early Friday and they're making it very cheerful inside :)
Good luck everyone! Hope we still get some flowers out of the spring perennials!gardengrl66 z5 thanked rockiesfanzone5co
Laura (Z5a Fort Collins, Colorado)
last yearlast modified: last yearIt looks like the Cheyenne Ridge spared us a walloping here in Fort Collins. I spent quite a bit of time wrapping and covering....and we only got down to 34 degrees with slushy rain.
That being said, tonight's supposed to be hovering just below freezing so I ain't gonna take any any of it off just yet!
Mummified back bed.
The old laundry basket + sheet + brick standby.
Styrofoam coolers have so many uses!
A peek at the irises; they bloomed just the day before. The grape scent is heavenly under there.
An assortment of bean plants and seedlings, looking like kids stuck inside during recess.
Best wishes for everyone's plant recovery. I've been there, done that. Hang in there.
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