Loki wrote:

il Sat, 06 Mar 2004 06:48:34 GMT, "Lorenzo L. Love" ha scritto:


Loki wrote:


How big are those milk jugs?

One gallon. A square of eight around each plant. In the spring after the
lettuce dosen't need any help I move them around tomato and pepper
transplants to protect them from late cold snaps, like a Wal-o-water.
Later, just dump the manure tea out as a plant food.

Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove


So let me see if I've pictured this right. You have these jugs
(plastic I presume) filled with water which releases heat at night.
Do you put anything over the top? And do they work well for frosts? I
guess they may work as wind breaks too which is a problem here. Cold
Southerlies from Antartcica pack a bitter punch.

As I said, no other protection. The coldest I had it here is 7F and only
had minor frost damage to cold hardy leaf lettuce, head cabbage and bok
choi. Normal winters of 10 to 13F, no damage. They grow slow in the
winter, but they grow. A frost blanket should take it much lower but I
don't need it here. From plants started last fall I've been picking the
outer lettuce leaves all winter, the bok choi just got big enough to
start harvesting a couple weeks ago, the head cabbage hasn't headed up
yet, some years it doesn't head but it still makes good soup.

Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove

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