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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Just this morning I was pondering the Q of how to get some over-wintering 
pots ready for a forecast cold snap.  Thru the summer the problem is how to 
give them enough water plus keeping the pots cool; seems suddenly the issue 
is frozen root masses.  I gradually move them from the site where the first 
is more convenient, to the site where over-wintering will work better.  
Sorry I can't be more helpful.

If you mean frost-tender tropicals, I say bring them in sooner rather than 
later/ better safe than sorry.  If the afternoon & evening feel chilly, 
frost is likely-- to heck with the official forecast.  As for car batteries, 
the last thing I heard was wind-chill doesn't matter.  It just cools stuff 
off faster than still air.

Tanis, s.WI, be warrrrrm!


----Original Message Follows----
From: David W Hausmann <wizard2468>
To: nafex@
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] negative... Whether Weather[Wind Chill] Effects Plants
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:53:55 -0600

Hello, All!
        First, I would like to join in on the detrimental effects of 
negative...

              Another stupid question:  when you have plants outside you 
want to bring
in before a freeze, do you watch the air temperature or wind chill
temperature?  I realize that wind chill calculates our bodies' reaction
to wind and humidity, vies a vie our perspiration and the cooling effect
produced by the evaporation of perspiration, but was wondering if wind
chill also has any effect on plants?  I have written to local TV
meteorologists and asked and never received a reply.  I was also
wondering about things such as car batteries [I know they will not freeze
if fully charged, but if not charged fully] and radiator fluids as well,
which is not garden related per se, except perhaps for garden tractors [a
stretch, I know.].  Just curious if anyone out there knows an answer.
        By the way, I have been pleasantly amazed by the level of expertize on
this list.  I hope you get it straightened out soon, I enjoy the
appropriate posts and have already learned how little I know on this
topic.  [The more a wise person knows, the more the person knows how
little they know.]  Have a Good One!  Love, Peace and Perception

Wizard
Saint Louis, Missouri

                                                       Be Cooool!
                                                       Wizard2468

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