its october.. in the cold north ... i would just put them outside .. and hope for the best ...

its not like its july/august .... and you are going to have a week of hundred degree weather ... i just see the accumulated heat that would be needed for those pots.. small as they are.. to dry out ...

they are trees... not your babies ... lol ...

ken

like your sports car in the 2nd pic ... lol

Yes, I was wondering if that was the car that is going to be used for the trip.

What Ken said. Water them before you go, put them on the north side of a building and for 10 days they'll be fine.

tj

Thanks tb.

I can put almost 1/2" deep water in the bottom of the blue trays before it runs out. That happens when it rains and they seem to do just fine. Things haven't been drying out very fast at all with the cool weather we've been having. The seedlings went through first heavy frost on Saturday (30d) and didn't blink an eye. So I'll just leave them outside with no extra coverings.

:-)

Another 1/2" of rain last night.

The little car has been around for many years. Get's used occasionally when the GK's visit. Ended up to be a good place where it stays fairly clean an hidden from outside the yard. First week of Sept.

As long as I'm in the picture album, here's a few more showing the yard. Not spectacular or even close but considering it was a completely bare patch of soil when I came 7 years ago, I have to appreciate the progress. :-)

Looking the other direction to the ENE:

I removed one of the Acer rubrums that was between the Tree lilac and the rubrum with the white tube to the right. Just would've been too much shade too fast in that corner. (sods a little patchy yet).

Then panning right to the East:

The Acer rubrum dug from my land ouside of town when 4" tall (left). What my wife calls my 'Charlie brown Xmas tree' :-) and a Bur oak that has stayed in the same place for about 3 seasons.

Further right to the SE: Middle of the yard still fairly open but started two new trees (hophornbeam left & Hackberry) this spring from seed. Acer saccharum and Picea glauca to the right.

A more recent pic, end of Sept: Viewing to the SSE: The Lindens in the background are on the other side of the 'alley'. The Juniper communis was planted to act somewhat as a 'snow fence' and has made a difference. I still may add some regular snow fence this winter. Tsuga canadensis behind the juniper, Hydrangea panniculata, Juniper virginiana (right center) and a Pinus strobus behind and between those two.

Panning further right: New shed in two seasons now. The only afternoon shade I get until the sun goes back of the house to the northwest in summer.

The Pinus resinosa at the south end of the yard, some now over six feet tall.

Picea glauca (3), Abies balsamea will be my SW windbreak at the that corner. Also started an Amur maple and Thuja occidentalis from seed this spring (left). A Pinus resinosa (right) that may get replaced if I get more Tsuga from seed.

Looking back to the NNW: Pinus strobus (forefront left), Picea glauca (right), Juniper v. (left center) and Hydrangea p. (center).

And can't forget the Quercus ellipsoidalis (I think) . Had a bout with bores on the right one this spring. The other sent up a new leader and good growth on both of them this season.

ETA: Betula papyrifera. Next to pinus resinosa, south end.

You have a huge amount of space! I can't believe you can't find a spot to overwinter 16 conifer seedlings (ref. your other post). Stick them under the lilacs or by the fence or behind the sheds and mulch well. Job done.

Thanks floral!

If you only knew how devastatingly cold it can get around here. :-/

Besides, I've never done this before so it's a lot more fun hashing it over with you guys first before making a final decision. :0)

I'll probably locate the pots on the NE side of the fence opposite the Tree lilac. Good shade and some wind protection. Depends which comes first, the cold or the snow. I'll post up in the other thread when it happens. :-)

Note that it's borers of course and not "bores" - bore is what they do and not what they are. Bronze birch borer finally made it out to my area and is rapidly boring out the upper parts of European, white Himalayan and paper birches - as they are so common here and so heavily affected the damage to European birches is particularly noticeable.

Thanks Embothrium.

I noticed the Borer misspelling after I posted but the way the edit function has been giving me trouble, I didn't want to take the chance trying to edit since it posted the first time so perfectly with many pictures. But I knew you'd know what I meant. :-)

So far so good on EAB and BBB, they may be present here but no noticeable damage. I had borer damage done to a green ash of mine last year but that may have been Podosesia aureocincta not Agrilus planipennis (EAB). The damage was so limited but I since removed the green ash and put another white spruce in the same location. Not that I was worried about EAB, it's just that the way the damage was administered, it ruined the small trunk and I thought that a spruce will fit there better anyways, with a street light pole 10 ft away.

If a borer is uninteresting, it's a bore. ;)

Nice to see you picked some native stalwarts on the N/NW corner of the property. :)

Looking great Bill, thanks for the tour!

For the record,

The plants were fine when I arrived home yesterday.

It rained an inch day before I left on Sunday and there was some light rain and snow that occurred by the end of the week and cloudy & cool several days after that. I left 1/2" water in the bottom of the baskets and they were still overflowing yesterday and everything looked wet. :^)