Cool - Cold Weather Gardening ...

[vja4Him]

How is your cold weather garden coming along?

Does anyone live in a mild climate where you can grow a garden all year, even in the dead of winter?

What do you have growing now -- Vegetables, fruits, flowers, cacti, succulents, trees, shrubs, grass, weeds, bare dirt, rocks ....

[Cloudwalker]

I live in Florida where we could garden all year around but I have a brown thumb. I kill plastic plants. The only reason I have plants around my house is because I don't mess with them.

[Twin2]

I kill plastic plants.

Hehehehehehehe!

[vja4Him]

I live in Florida where we could garden all year around but I have a brown thumb. I kill plastic plants. The only reason I have plants around my house is because I don't mess with them.

So, you have something like a natural, wild type of garden ...

[Moxie]

My mom has a cold frame so she starts planting in March and ends sometime in November.

[bc3n1]

I live in Florida where we could garden all year around but I have a brown thumb. I kill plastic plants. The only reason I have plants around my house is because I don't mess with them.

Cloudwalker, that is so funny! Living in zone 6b, now is the time to put out pansies, flowering cabbage, and snapdragons; greens have already been planted earlier for harvesting prior to very hard freezes. No cold frame used though I'd love to have had one when I was more able to tend to it.

[turtledove]

It gets cold here this time of year so I cut back my hanging plants and stored them. They lay dormat under the house until spring. Three of them have rebloomed now for over three years..

Indoors my plants grow all winter and I consider them my garden. I especially love the Christmas cactus which started blooming last week and will keep blooming until Christmas. (I hope) And my Shamrock plant is still blooming since last March. The others(like ivy and such) don't bloom but are on their fourth year doing well..in the window where there is plent of light for them.

Happy gardening to those in Florida and the SW..I miss that!

[turtledove]

What do you have growing now -- Vegetables, fruits, flowers, cacti, succulents, trees, shrubs, grass, weeds, bare dirt, rocks ....

As shared above..my cactus is doing well indoors. When we were SW winters we had beautiful Spanish dagger plants outside which grow all year and some cacti which bloomed--including one very tall Saguaro in our yard.

Plenty of rocks(none growing that I can see... ) and weeds (which survive anything even coming up through rocks) here in the NW.

[vja4Him]

My mom has a cold frame so she starts planting in March and ends sometime in November.

My grandfather used to have cold and hot frames. He grew strawberries all year long in Portland, Oregon. He also grew vegetables all year long, even in the dead of winter (much colder than our area in Modesto).

[grit]

Late Fall is when I transplant my yard and redecorate the outdoors. I've been digging up bushes and small trees and moving them this place and that like a madman.

[vja4Him]

Cloudwalker, that is so funny! Living in zone 6b, now is the time to put out pansies, flowering cabbage, and snapdragons; greens have already been planted earlier for harvesting prior to very hard freezes. No cold frame used though I'd love to have had one when I was more able to tend to it.

Where is Zone #3b, and why the b? We live in the very southeastern-most end of Growing Zone #14, with Zone #8 to the south, and #9 to the east.

The only problem I've seen with my gardens in the colder than usual years is that my outside jades get covered with ice and die. So I've brought all my jades inside. I have one jade outside still that I started from a leaf. It's hidden on a shelf, so it might survive the winter(?). Also I've lost some spider plants when covered with ice, and several other plants.

This year I'm experimenting with several spider plants planted in the ground, under several large geraniums. All my geraniums are still flowering, even with frost and ice many mornings!

Most of my plants will do just fine though. But I have to watch carefully and bring some plants inside.

As far as the vegetables go, never have had any problems no matter how cold it gets. I've seen the temperature down to 22 degrees, but it always warms up in the day.

I've even planted seeds early in the morning when there was frost still on the ground! Seeds take a little longer to pop up, but once the plants start growing, they do very well.

I have some Swiss chard plants that survived through the summer and fall, and are growing now very nicely. Also have some volunteer mustard greens that are taking off pretty quick now.

[vja4Him]

Late Fall is when I transplant my yard and redecorate the outdoors. I've been digging up bushes and small trees and moving them this place and that like a madman.

I always look forward to middle-late fall, all of winter, and early spring to transplant, plant seeds and starts. I hate the warm and hot weather we have. Makes me sick, and I get sunburned (losing my pigments!) and heat stroke, so I'm very limited to working out in the warm weather.

Our cold weather is the best time to transplant and get outside when the sun is low in the southern sky, days are cool. We don't have very many cloudy or rainy days though.

[vja4Him]

It gets cold here this time of year so I cut back my hanging plants and stored them. They lay dormat under the house until spring. Three of them have rebloomed now for over three years..

Indoors my plants grow all winter and I consider them my garden. I especially love the Christmas cactus which started blooming last week and will keep blooming until Christmas. (I hope) And my Shamrock plant is still blooming since last March. The others(like ivy and such) don't bloom but are on their fourth year doing well..in the window where there is plent of light for them.

Happy gardening to those in Florida and the SW..I miss that!

What kind of hanging plants do you have? I have a beautiful velvet plant. It needs to be repotted. I've tried making starts from the velvet plant, which works just fine, but then when I pot the starts (after they have sprouted plenty of roots), the plants always get this white stuff growing all over, that kills the plants.

Anybody know what that problem is? The parent velvet plant is still doing just fine (no white stuff killing it). It's just root bound.

[turtledove]

What kind of hanging plants do you have? I have a beautiful velvet plant. It needs to be repotted. I've tried making starts from the velvet plant, which works just fine, but then when I pot the starts (after they have sprouted plenty of roots), the plants always get this white stuff growing all over, that kills the plants.

Anybody know what that problem is? The parent velvet plant is still doing just fine (no white stuff killing it). It's just root bound.

I already mentioned the indoor ones..the outdoor ones that lay dormat and revive and bloom again each year are all fuchsias--different types. I don't know anything about velvet plants. Anything that I think is getting root bound I usually transplant into a bigger pot.

[Cloudwalker]

Cloudwalker, that is so funny! Living in zone 6b, now is the time to put out pansies, flowering cabbage, and snapdragons; greens have already been planted earlier for harvesting prior to very hard freezes. No cold frame used though I'd love to have had one when I was more able to tend to it.

Zone 6b? I don't live in any zone. I live in Florida.