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Ethnobotany Garden - "JL Hudson on Seed Germination"
... using outdoor treatment, hold pots at above freezing for a few weeks before putting outside. Snow cover is highly beneficial. Dormancy is highly variable. Sometimes a seed collected in the warm lowlands ... light prevents sprouting. If light is required, sow on the surface; if darkness is needed, cover seed well. OSCILLATING TEMPERATURES: Some seeds need the daily change from warm to cold that ...
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OSU Extension Service and Agricultural Research Station News
... out of the closet.” Putnam gives background on Verticillium and mint. Buckwheat is good summer cover crop for home gardens Buckwheat is a fast-growing, warm-season, succulent, broad-leafed annual ... and thawing. In colder, drier areas of Oregon, cold and desiccating wind combined with sparse snow cover can damage plant root systems. Landscape plants including woody shrubs and perennials in central and ...
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OSU Extension Service and Agricultural Research Station News
... included. Prevent hungry rodents from chewing trees and shrubs Cold weather, particularly in areas with snow cover, often drives hungry field mice and voles to search for food in residential areas. They ...
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Winter Protection - Ornamental Grasses Forum - GardenWeb
... ?? I want to do all I can. I am blessed with substantial snow coverage. I am most concerned about a extensive planting of Japanese Blood ... very tough and will probably come back better than you think. The snow will help a lot too. I would mound the blood grass ... will cover an 8" crown. Put that over the trimmed down crown of your grass, and pile mulch, and eventually snow, over it. If the snow cover ...
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I'm in love! - Ornamental Grasses Forum - GardenWeb
... though some sources say Z6, they do well here in Z5, where we have substantial snow cover. RE: I'm in love! clip this post email this post what is this? see ...
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Dormancy In Plants: A Process For Survival
... from extreme cold, and from fluctuating spring temperatures. If possible, encourage a good snow cover around the plants. Snow is an excellent insulator. As winter sets in, the tree has become fully dormant ...
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Snow Mold
... These fungi cause damage in the fall and in spring when snow covers the grass. The damage will likely occur in shaded ... from the lawn in the fall. b) As compaction of snow favors snow mold, discourage the use of parts of the lawn as ... snow cover (about the end of October). If possible another previous application at the end of September will give better control. Registered fungicides for control of snow ...
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Desirable Herb Varieties: Caraway
... very carefully both before and after emergence. Growing If the first-year winter provides little snow cover and is very dry, some plants may be lost. The presence of honey bees will ... standard precautions apply; loosely tying a permeable bag of some sort (cheesecloth or old row cover) around the seed heads as harvest time approaches is one such. The standard spice-seed ...
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Desirable Herb Varieties: Poppy
... seeds makes you a drug lord. (There was a long article--the cover story, in fact--on the subject of poppy seeds and our looney ... You can plant very early in spring--pretty much as soon as the snow cover is gone. Just plant a seed or three in a pot and water ... permeable bag of some sort (cheesecloth, or perhaps an old bit of row cover) around the growing seed head to collect the seeds when they are ...
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Alaska Gardening News
... the typical freeze and thaw cycles occured when there was at least some snow cover. Anyway if in doubt cover any tender or favorite perennials with a blanket of leaves. Since it had ... on Friday, sat in the garage on Saturday. On Sunday, after the season’s first snow, within a block of the house, the new car was promptly crashed into. As one ...
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