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Quote[/b] (jhaluska @ April 02 2005,8:46)]I live in NJ and waiting till I'm sure that the night time temperatures won't get below freezing. I'm hoping to move them out Tuesday.
Hi,
I live in Audubon, PA (about 2 hours from you). I put all of my Sarracenia and VFTs out already. They sit in pots in large plastic mortar mixing tubs from Home Depot. I think we got enough rain today!! I also just uncovered my bog.
Joe
Wow Laura thanx for naming those types of plants that would do well here. Most actually are found wild in the county where I live, so that means they should do well. Don't anyone worry, I am not gonna go and get them from the wild.
Did I find anything special? Hmm, how about special little nests of fine chewed up material from mice or moles or whatever. Last year I had a S. purpurea susp. purpurea var. heterophylla completely snacked upon down to the rhizome--uggghh!!
I planted much more common material this year, and cut leaves and left them in the mix for the mice to snack on. It seemed to work, and I found several leaves chewed, but the plants left alone.
I just layed S. purprea subsp. purpurea leaves that had the stuff rinsed out all about. They did eat it--I found leaves chewed throughout. I also removed the pine needles earlier that last year, but left the plastic pulled to the side just in case of a hard frost--a little warmer hear in SE Pennsylvania.
I just have a sunny spot I'm moving the pots out into and I have a metal cage to put over them to keep the pesky squirrels away from my plants. My windows don't get enough sunlight.
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