Northeast Gardening: coming in from the cold, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Candyce - I'd go for the warmer room and keep the most tender plants against the warmest wall - that's fairly cool at 40 degrees. Our porch has three doors - one (that we don't open in winter unless it's mild out) to the outside, one to the guest room and one to the master bedroom. All day it stays warm and if the sun is shining it can easily get up to 90 degrees in there but at night falls down to around 50 - 55.

Sticks - I'd never again use the insecticidal soap with all the warnings on the label and I would use a tiny amount of liquid soap in a sink filled with warm water and swish the smaller plants but hose down the larger plants, trying to get both sides of the leaves and flush the soil. The gardenia LOVES humidity and would love a quick bath!