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Winter Sowing: Warning! Heat can be the enemy

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Forum: Winter SowingReplies: 5, Views: 13
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JefeQuicktech
Moorhead, MN
(Zone 4a)

January 20, 2006
10:53 AM

Post #1988748

This is a warning for all who are starting to WS (winter sow). Heat in the spring can be the biggest enemy. I had many plants that survived a brutal freeze in late May. Conversely, I tragically lost many plants to heat.

This year I am going to move most of my containers to areas that only receive morning sun once they have germinated. The high heat periods of the day were just too hot for them with any sort of cover on them.

Could I have uncovered them? Sure. Will I remember or have time? No. Better safe than sorry.

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