Some of these groundcover bamboos get fried every year so no real harm done -- they provide a good way to ease into this post though.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Fried
Worst Foliage Followup ever? The "cold snap" (that's a friendlier, happier way to say it I think) we had to welcome the new year did what I expected to the bamboos: fried them.
Some of these groundcover bamboos get fried every year so no real harm done -- they provide a good way to ease into this post though.
Some of these groundcover bamboos get fried every year so no real harm done -- they provide a good way to ease into this post though.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Backtrack: bananas
I realized recently that in my flurry of pre-freeze activity last month I never posted about my banana overwintering preparations. I let my Musa basjoo do whatever it will until a really hard freeze is forecast -- usually that means a low temperature below 25ºF (-4ºC) or so.
This year that condition was not forecast until December 6, so that's when I had to get moving on this. (Note that there had been a few nights of below freezing temperatures so the foliage was already fried, but the thick pseudostems can handle those temps without damage.)
This year that condition was not forecast until December 6, so that's when I had to get moving on this. (Note that there had been a few nights of below freezing temperatures so the foliage was already fried, but the thick pseudostems can handle those temps without damage.)
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Pond Ice
When the cold weather finally moved on, I took a quick look at the pond which was frozen over. My hope was to see some of the fish beneath the ice...
...but as I got closer I realized that would probably not be possible.
...but as I got closer I realized that would probably not be possible.