[CH] Trying peony hoops this year
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:33:45 +0000
Pods,
Over several years some of my plants, usually big bells and such, tend to fall over in stormy weather when they are heavy with fruit. I have tried staking them, which _sometimes_ works. This year I'm trying peony hoops for support.
We have 30+ peonies here in the gardens, and as you know when they bloom and the rain falls, the flowers go face-flat on the ground and that's it for your blooming for the year. So we have metal hoops about 14" wide on four legs. We put them over the plants and let them grow through, and once the plants grow in the hoops are invisible but the blooms stay up in the rain.
Well the peonies are all done blooming and they've been deadheaded so they don't need the hoops. So I've been putting hoops over my bells, salsa peppers, marconi, jalapeno, etc. Right now the hoops are bigger than the plants and it kind of looks like I'm trying to shield them from government control signals. Or maybe an elaborate Faraday cage to distribute any lightning hits.
And they are in fact calling for lightning, this has been a stormy start to the summer. Today's newspaper has a front-page pic of interstate 70 under water a few miles east of town.
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