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[Amanda Courtney <amandaisoutdoors@hotmail.com>]

I just planted my trees this past spring.   It is supposed to get -11
tonight and -1 high tomorrow in western PA.  I am worrying about my trees
not being well established enough to survive.  Should I be trying to pile
hay around them or something else?   
Thanks, and hope all of your plants do alright!!
Amanda

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Matt Demmon
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 11:33 AM
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio
Subject: Re: [nafex] Record cold

It sounds like it'll be worse for the more southern folk than for us up
here. The low predicted for tonight here is -12, which is pretty low, but
within the 'normal' range for us. We've also currently have about 20" of
snow on the ground, a lot for us. I've experienced -22 at my location, and
we typically get lows below zero 5-10 times a winter. But not for the last
several winters. Unfortunately I planted some semi-hardy things last spring
like jujubes and mulberries that often die back here in severe winters, and
I was hoping for a couple more mild winters for them to get established
before it got really cold.

Hopefully the snow and the straw I piled around them will balance out the
-12 temperature and the 30 mph winds!!

-matt
z5 se MI


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Elizabeth Hilborn
<ehilborn@mebtel.net>wrote:

> Good luck to everyone. Best wishes for high rates of plant survival.
>
> Betsy Hilborn
> 6a? Central NC
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