Comments on: Winter storage http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/winter-storage/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/winter-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-4063 Layanee Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:27:15 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1565#comment-4063 Kris: Plants everywhere! It would help if I had a cool, sunny location instead of the warmth of the house but one has to make due with what one has! I do have a greenhouse attachment but is has more office items in it than anything else! 20F here this morning....brrrrrr! <em>Layanee, If I worked in your office/greenhouse I think pretty soon I wouldn't be able to find the computer under all of my begonias! And I think you might have been a degree or 10 below us this morning - surprise surprise! brrrr is right. -kris</em> Kris: Plants everywhere! It would help if I had a cool, sunny location instead of the warmth of the house but one has to make due with what one has! I do have a greenhouse attachment but is has more office items in it than anything else! 20F here this morning….brrrrrr!

Layanee, If I worked in your office/greenhouse I think pretty soon I wouldn’t be able to find the computer under all of my begonias! And I think you might have been a degree or 10 below us this morning – surprise surprise! brrrr is right. -kris

]]> By: Gail http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/winter-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-4062 Gail Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:15 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1565#comment-4062 Hi Kris, No indoor plants....the cat is the problem but if I could I would have a greenhouse...there are a few plants that I would love to over winter..tender perennials and annuls. I do love to visit the greenhouses at public gardens on cold winter days....the sun, humidity, flowers and warmth make me want to curl up like a cat in the sunniest spot. Keep warm! Gail <em>Gail, Our greenhouse is always open to folks like you who need a dose of (relative) warmth and green growing things throughout the winter. -- Your cat doesn't like houseplants? Mine love them! A little too much maybe... -kris</em> Hi Kris,

No indoor plants….the cat is the problem but if I could I would have a greenhouse…there are a few plants that I would love to over winter..tender perennials and annuls. I do love to visit the greenhouses at public gardens on cold winter days….the sun, humidity, flowers and warmth make me want to curl up like a cat in the sunniest spot. Keep warm! Gail

Gail, Our greenhouse is always open to folks like you who need a dose of (relative) warmth and green growing things throughout the winter. — Your cat doesn’t like houseplants? Mine love them! A little too much maybe… -kris

]]> By: Sarah Laurence http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/winter-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-4060 Sarah Laurence Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:12:05 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1565#comment-4060 Kris, my attitude in Maine is if the perennial isn't going to make it through the long winter then it's an annual. You must really enjoy your greenhouse in the winter. What tropical paradise! <em>Sarah, I do love the greenhouse - but "tropical" it's not! -- Although it's true that on days like today, 50 will probably feel downright balmy (it's only 46 and 48 in there right now though!) -kris</em> Kris, my attitude in Maine is if the perennial isn’t going to make it through the long winter then it’s an annual. You must really enjoy your greenhouse in the winter. What tropical paradise!

Sarah, I do love the greenhouse – but “tropical” it’s not! — Although it’s true that on days like today, 50 will probably feel downright balmy (it’s only 46 and 48 in there right now though!) -kris

]]> By: Amy http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/winter-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-4059 Amy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:38:11 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1565#comment-4059 I generally avoid the tender perennials because we absolutely must bring them in for winter, or buy a new one every spring. How do people avoid bringing in the bugs with them and ending up with little flies throughout the house? I have wonderful memories of when my father grew dahlias. I would consider trying those someday. We have to dig them up and store them indoors each fall. <em>Amy, Your season is short enough that I see why you might hesitate to buy the tender perennials. But I think you can mostly avoid a bug problem - things that die back like the salvias and "hardy" (zone 8 hardy!) fuchsias could be cut way back and put down cellar. And dahlias certainly would be easy-peasy. The only extra step for you would be to give everything an earlier start upstairs and then maybe you'd have to be on the bug lookout for a month or so. -kris</em> I generally avoid the tender perennials because we absolutely must bring them in for winter, or buy a new one every spring. How do people avoid bringing in the bugs with them and ending up with little flies throughout the house? I have wonderful memories of when my father grew dahlias. I would consider trying those someday. We have to dig them up and store them indoors each fall.

Amy, Your season is short enough that I see why you might hesitate to buy the tender perennials. But I think you can mostly avoid a bug problem – things that die back like the salvias and “hardy” (zone 8 hardy!) fuchsias could be cut way back and put down cellar. And dahlias certainly would be easy-peasy. The only extra step for you would be to give everything an earlier start upstairs and then maybe you’d have to be on the bug lookout for a month or so. -kris

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