Friday, February 27, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 7692 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating I have sproutage!!! After planting seeds from about 40 immature brugmansia seed pods I'm excited to report that about 1/3 already have seeds sprouting! I'm sure more crosses will sprout in the next week or two. This is way cool because I had some important crosses I was afraid I might have lost in the freeze. There are at least 30 more seeds pods that were damaged in the freeze that I plan to plant next weekend. My guess is that I have about the same number that did not get damaged that are still growing on ... Categories:HybridizingBrugmansia Tags:brug seedsbrugmansia seedsfreezeweather Read more
Thursday, January 3, 2008 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 7107 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Death Watch Here we go, the temperature just dropped down to 32f and it is only 10:00pm. I was hoping tonight's weather forecast would be wrong, as they often are, but this one is one is dead on. Accuweather did not have the temperature dropping below freezing till 5:00am, but Weather Underground was predicting 30 at 10:00pm. This is not good, we could have 8 hours below freezing! Now it's 31.4, yikes!!!! Accuweather is forecasting a low of 28 by dawn, while Weather Underground predicts ... Categories:Weather Tags:coldfreezefrost clothglobal warmingsommer gardensweather Read more