My feral tobacco plant is absolutely unconcerned, and is growing like a weed.
/johnny
How often do you get weather that cold in Texas? We are lucky in Missouri, that we get warmer spells all during the winter usually. Not like living in the Dakotas and other more northerly climates.
I too stay inside, usually with a nice warm throw, shawl, or sweater on and a cup of something hot to sip.
I have all my spring seeds listed in a Word document along with when to plant them and their maturity time to EAT THEM.
Plants are growing fine. I wrote the article below two days ago because I had been researching containers to see what to do for spring. Thought some of this might help someone:
ALL PLANT CONTAINERS ARE NOT EQUAL
When I first planted two cherry and one Roma tomato, I got two smaller and one larger clay pot that are like most pots – larger at the top and slim down from there to a small bottom – really dumb on my part to buy them. That was the end of my stupidity about plant containers.
They can mostly throw away all containers/pots that are larger at the top and smaller than a regular size saucer at the bottom. The roots of the plant will get root bound and stop growing and so does the plant. Dumb way to make a pot. I didn’t buy any more like those first three and it’s a good thing they were really cheap.
The only good container/pot is a square one or round one that is the same size on the top as the bottom. There are a zillion for sale of the slim down kind but not that many that are square or round and the same size on the bottom. In fact, I’ve never seen a good looking one that is round and the same size on the bottom.
You can spend yourself silly buying containers and not have enough money left to buy what you need to grow plants. For me, the ones on the deck need to look nice as that is the only place I have to sit outside and I don’t want to sit outside in the middle of crappy containers. What I now have are nice looking plastic containers that I managed to find at really good lower prices. The last five I bought are square - 15 inches across at the top and the bottom. I need as much space across the top as possible for more plants to be in that container, plus room for the roots. I can’t find any more of that kind – I paid $8+ dollars for each of those and 5 was all they had and now they are $15 and more each, and I have looked at Sears, Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, and Amazon for more of them at that lower price. I have other plastic nice looking containers on the deck and these last five will be all that goes on the deck.
I have a bunch of the fabric grow bags with plants sitting in the dirt garden in the net room. I’m going to get black plastic round nursery pots 16 inches across the top and bottom, if I can find them, 15 inches if not, in which to put the rest of the plants this spring. I don’t have to fill the entire container unless that plant is the type with a long root system or it’s a root veggie. That is the type plastic pot a plant is in when you buy it at Lowes or Walmart or wherever. Those are cheap and many people just throw those away and put their plant in a nicer container once they get it home. I’ll get 20 of these cheap, large nursery containers and it won’t break the bank.
You also have to size the container to the plant. The small pots I got for the first three tomatoes were too small. Those pots would be okay for herbs and that’s what will go in them. I don’t remember exactly, but I think they might have been something like $3 each. Hopefully, when I buy herbs at Lowes in the spring, they will be in a decent pot to keep them in. If not, I’ll get those small cheap ones.
Maybe none of you need containers/pots. If you do, consider what I’ve gone through to get the right containers. I really think the 14-15-16 inch across cheap nursery pots are the ideal if you don’t have need for nice looking containers. Herbs, of course, can be in smaller ones.
Friday at 3pm...33F here in the Central TX Hill Country, and rain...Dang, I need to go cover my pentas in the front, and my impatiens, and two tomatoes which are not under the greenhouse I built..
I still haven’t done the firring strips. Guess I should have done it when we were at a warm 37 degrees. brrrr.