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Watering transplants in fall
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Posted by deanna_in_nh 5a (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 8:01
| I planted the things I got from the NH fall swap a while ago. I have watered them because my local nursery said most people forget to water in the fall and it's a main reason fall plantings don't survive the winter. I just realized, however, that the monardas, which were planted off by themselves apart from the other plants, haven't gotten any extra watering in a long while. How many of you water in the fall? Do you think mother nature has watered enough this fall, or have I possibly done harm to the monardas? (:-(
Thanks,
Deanna |
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RE: Watering transplants in fall
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| I plead guilty to giving little attention to supplemental watering in the fall. Where I live, south of Boston, October was a very rainy month. So much so that I was taken back when the weatherman said that Nov. had actually been below average so far at that point. I would take an optimistic view. |
RE: Watering transplants in fall
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| We had a dry fall once. The garden shows on the radio spent the whole fall talking about it. It was quite unusual to not have to plan leaf raking around the rain showers. Usually fall is the rainy season, or at least it gets more rain than the other rainy seasons. So the whole idea strikes me as very not-local. It's a major concern in Colorado, or so I hear. I've never grown anything in Colorado. Unless you have very sandy soil, it just doesn't seem like something that should even be on people's radar. It has to dry out before you worry about not watering, and it usually dries out here sometime in April. And for the record, it is currently....raining. |
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