Hooray! Hooray!
It's outdoor frostdate time today!!!~
My bizzy days are here anew
Out til dark and up with the dew`
Here's a picture of my boy CH PT Breeze Ring Master, whom I retired from the show ring last week. He is #4 Bichon Frise in the country - we now have six under roof. When I'm not grooming the gardens, I'm grooming the doggies - what about ME!
OUT (side) with the Brugs!
Where's the picture??
well, we'll try again
Congrats on your Bichon!! Would you please come here and train my next door neighbor's Bichon before we all put a muzzle on him because he barks at everything that moves? You should be very proud, really!!
As soon as I got home from work today, I took all of my brugs out where they had better be staying out until fall. :) Happy days are here again!!
Newbie question: After a very long and cold Spring, the temp's will get down into the mid-40s (F)tonight but they'll reach 70 or higher during the day. Does this sound like a safe enough temperature range to kick my brug's out of the house now? This is my first time growing them and I'm not sure how much cold that they can take.
The frostdate means it's not going below 32 F - but it's been 45 and as low as 39 this past week, all okay for Brugs - just don 't let them dry out, or go below 32. The temp for Richmond is considered safe from now on. (7b)
congratulations on your little champion. My Lhasas are not that nice but I did enjoy showing them and Sky does have 10 points.. just can't get majors where I live and retired her last December. I really love the shows. Beautiful Dog.
Brugs don't mind cool weather... they just don't like to be frozen.. but even a short freeze may just cause leaf drop and not kill the plant.... ask me how I know. I am new to brugs this year.
Tammie
Thanks, I thought that brugs were more tender than that.
As for last frost dates, normally, I'd have everything planted out by now but this has been such a weird year that I don't think that we're out of the woods yet.
I'd love to kick all mine out. Unfortunately we are still getting 30 degree mornings.
Even my veggies are in a holding pattern in the GH. It has been a weird year!
Bj
Hasn't this been a weird year?! I still have my friends Brugs in my greenhouse because it's still too cold outside in the foothills. I am enjoying the rain though - but an hour east of here it's snow.
Mary
Mary, how can I imagine snow an hour away - some things here are predictable year after year, and that is April 2o is the last freeze date. So , I started putting the Brugs in the ground - 8 yesterday, and today i planted all my herbs along with the second seeding of mesclun, and I set the trellis for the gorgeous passsionata for planting tomorrow, along with the tropicana cannas and coleus in patio containers decorated with trailing verbena and varigated gr covers.
I get carried away --- ! it's my super high time --- why not!
You go for it! Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and just go for the gusto.
It would be totally weird for us to have frost here this late, and one can't hold out for the remote possibility of a freak storm .... or we'd be waiting until July to have any fun. LOL
I've planted my bare root stuff and I'm leaving the greenhouse door open to harden things off. Most of my presumed dead Brugs are coming back from the roots; Although they're not growing fast with our cooler than normal temperatures. Found that Jackson and Perkins is having their rose sale, so I've got 3 more roses coming. Went to the nursery today and picked up some annuals to brighten the shade garden. I'm glad to live nearer to the coast instead of in the hills where they were shoveling snow Friday.
The Brugs I overwinter - and I pile them with compost and wrap them w/bubble wrap to about 2 ft - take so long to send out shoots (talk about being cautious!) that I have done much better
planting their well rooted cuttings after April 20th. It 'sJune by the time I see Brug shoots from the overwintered ones - and the cuttings are two feet by then.
What about that wind last night? I think my Jamie's Monkey Business is broken in half... My seedlings are about 3' tall and look terrible with all the shredded leaves. Whaaaaaaaaa
A severe wind/storm can certainly wreak havoc - fortunately most of my Brugs are reasonably protected, and are also still young and low to the ground. I'm working on my pots, which will be a little more vulnerable, but fortunately our nor'easters are past.