Re: Potting new arrivals

I have good success by burying pot and all in the garden for the winter,
garden soil about to the top of the pot, and then mulching with a loose mulch
through the winter.   I make sure the soil is moist all around the pot.  My
mulch is the corn stalks from the veg. garden, piled on loosely and just
enough to keep the rhizomes shaded at all times so that don't get exposed to
the sun:  protection from the freeze/thaw cycle that makes them rot and from
the likelihood of frost-heaving.  This has been all the protection they have
needed.  I'm going to have to do it again this winter, because the place where
I want to plant them will likely not be ready this fall.   We are in the
southern part of zone 4, by the way, and it will hit at least -20 deg. F. a
few times in the winter, I'm afraid.

Arnold

Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail  koekkoek@mtcnet.net

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