Carolina Gardening: It's that time of year again..., 1 by keonikale

keonikale wrote:
This year is certainly turning out to be one of the more tempting yet to pull stuff out. It's been fairly consistently up in the 70's lately, and the low temperature hasn't dipped below 40 in nearly three weeks. The long term forecast also looks to be warmer than average. Mark my words... the one year I don't move anything out early, it's the year the last frost was early March.

On a sadder (plant) note... for some reason my smaller 4' Christmas Palms did not make it through the winter in the garage, and I just noticed over the weekend. I was very sad to see their crownshafts had started to decay and die. I have had trouble with the larger 8' Christmas Palms (trying to figure out the right mix of light/water in the winter), but never my small ones. I'm not sure what happened - maybe they were too shaded under the other tropicals or got to much water. It's hard to say, once they started to die, any of the water I gave them never got sucked up so it appeared to make them too wet when they might not have been. So my only guess was lack of light and/or some sort of fungus in the pot. A third survived, but barely - I think it'll recover.