Good! Glad that you can enjoy it! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Fikso" <adam14113@ameritech.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Late fall in Maryland > > In some ways raised beds are warmer (although more exposed) that furrows > into which cold air sinks and freezes and stays frozen longe. Experiments > have shown this over and over It's counter intuitive re the idea of > protecting plants from wind but compromises are possible,. At least two > sets > of factors operate, one being wind direction. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <totototo@telus.net> > To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:59 AM > Subject: Re: [pbs] Late fall in Maryland > > > On 13 Dec 2009, at 13:48, Jim McKenney wrote: > >> ...my thoughts all week have been with those of you in the West Coast: >> the >> Internet is full of postings relating to the awful weather out there - >> and >> not just on garden-related sites. > > Well, here in Victoria, things have not been too bad. > > For comparison, last December we had two or three nights of truly > unseasonable > cold when it got down to -12C, whereas this year we had six nights or so > where > it got down to -6C, no worse. And in February 1989 we had a month-long > cold > spell sufficient to freeze the soil a good foot deep. > > What's been more unusual is the rainfall which has been much greater this > year; > usually our really wet weather waits for January-February. As I said in a > posting a few days ago, if we have losses of bulbs, the wet weather > preceding > the cold spell will be partly to blame. > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/