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Post by curlingguy on Mar 25, 2007 18:13:43 GMT -5
I had to over-winter my pitcher plants for the first time. I decided to bury them in the garden. I dug a pit so that the tops of their pots were about a foot below the soil level. I then put them in the pit and covered them with leaves and them some plastic to keep the pit from flooding (I put the plastic overtop some landscape ties on top of the pit so rain would run off). The whole thing was under snow all winter- about two feet of snow. I just dug the last of the snow off the pit today and then removed the leaves and voila- they look good!! Here's a picture of one planter- there are two others plus two indiviual pots (one with a Tarnok and one with a Oreophillia). A friend of mine dug his up- only to find a gopher (correction- make that a mole) had eaten everything !! Click here to see another pot of sarrs. www3.telus.net/public/ftv1234/Images/25MAR07%20Sarrs%202.jpgAnd another pot of sarrs. www3.telus.net/public/ftv1234/Images/25MAR07%20Sarrs3.jpg
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Post by Syble on Mar 25, 2007 20:09:05 GMT -5
gopher?! don't think we have any of those to worry about, but probably a good lesson to cage em, I've been told that for mice's sake! But they're looking good! Sib
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Post by curlingguy on Mar 25, 2007 23:10:34 GMT -5
Sorry, It was a mole not a gopher........ate all his pitcher plants he had buried in his garden.
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