{"id":140,"date":"2006-11-03T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/11\/03\/its-freezing\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T22:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:44:50","slug":"its-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/11\/03\/its-freezing\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s freezing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I&#8217;m writing this post to record our first frost. Well I think it&#8217;s the first. it&#8217;s -2 c outside right now and I believe that&#8217;s the first time it&#8217;s dipped below zero. Brrrrr Well at least all the silly roses in my garden will hopefully get the message that it&#8217;s time to shut down and stop blooming. Yes &#8211; my roses are still blooming. They always seem to bloom into mid November or so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s time for me to get outside &#8211; not now, it&#8217;s cold &#8211; and clean up the garden and start putting it to bed. I always mound some compost or peat around the roses to protect the roots. I buried the root ball several inches below the soil level when I planted the roses but the mounds that I put around the base of the roses in the fall give them further protection in the winter.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>We don&#8217;t tend to get a lot of snow here. Yes it does snow and sometimes we get quite a lot but it melts away fairly quickly. The air however stays very cold. The temps can fall to more than -20 c and worse with the wind factored in. If my garden doesn&#8217;t have a good snow cover or a cover that I&#8217;ve created with my mounds of compost and piles of leaves the plants will be more suceptable to freeze damage.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>I&#8217;m not looking foward to putting the garden to bed this year. It&#8217;s a big job what with us having 60 roses plus all the other plants. 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