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How did the Southerners fare in the freeze?

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How did the Southerners fare in the freeze? (post #16126)

SteveA on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 07:37
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The weather seems to have delivered Northern weather down South. Perhaps it was a Heat Miser/Cold Miser deal (watch "The Year Without a Santa Claus" to get the reference).

How are the Southerners doing with the cold?

(Just trying to get a conversation started here. The sound of crickets is deafening.)

--Steve Aitken, Editor, Fine Gardening
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We are thawing pretty fast (post #16126, reply #1 of 5)

by southernsoil in reply to SteveA [original] on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:19

We are thawing pretty fast here in NC. The gardens fared much better than the gardener. I was so excited to get out today that I didn't think about proper attire for trimming the roses and got a few nasty cuts. Oh well. The sun was shinning and it was 61 degrees.

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Steve, It is rather lonely (post #16126, reply #2 of 5)

by southernsoil in reply to southernsoil [original] on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 20:30

Steve, It is rather lonely over here.I still have hope that things will start to perk again. I love FG magazine and what this forum used to be. Actually I have gotten used to getting around here now. I wish I had more knowledge to answer some of the questions being asked. I'm a live and learn kinda gardener no formal training here. And that is missed the most, all the knowledge once offered on OTF.

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I agree with you, and thanks (post #16126, reply #3 of 5)

by SteveA in reply to southernsoil [original] on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 07:42

I agree with you, and thanks for sticking around. I hope things will pick up once spring starts hitting more of the country.

--Steve Aitken, Editor, Fine Gardening
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I don't know why it is I (post #16126, reply #4 of 5)

by Karen in reply to southernsoil [original] on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 11:53

I don't know why it is I always have to work on the nice days. No real problems from the cold spell here. It wasn't really all that cold for us, just lasted more days than usual. My only real morbidity came from forgetting to bring in my potted Furcraea foetida, but it's not the first time I've done that so I know it will recover.

North Carolina - zone 7

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Hello from Ponte Vedra Beach (post #16126, reply #5 of 5)

by ljinthegarden in reply to SteveA [original] on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 12:53

Hello from Ponte Vedra Beach Florida, where frost is something to get burned up about. We have taken our blanket and sheets down. Now the only trick is to learn to live with the burned brown leaves that will act as insulation for the next frost. We can't even cut our roses back as the weather spikes up one week and down the next.
It just doesn't seem quite fair that the only green in the lawns are those little displaced plants we call weeds!