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No, it didn't survive. This year I'll try some plants for fun, like Utricularia longifolia. I know that it will die, but just for the fun of having it during summer.
Okay, here some news: My secret is that I'm planning to build a pond with my peat bog, and a waterpomp would make a waterscape that go threw the peat bog. BUT!, I got a job (biology technician) last week far away from home, so I won't be there to finish it until 20 August. I don't have the time to add new plants, but I managed to add plants from my ancient peat bog.
Very beautiful bog. I had doubts of myself making one of these in time because it was so cold here in East-Central Wisconsin during the winter, thinking I would need like 36 inches of mulch and all this extra stuff for it to survive! Yet all you do is put some dead leaves and a plastic sheet on it. We get a lot of snow sometimes too. Not TONS but we do get some . This has motivated me, and you have beautiful plants! Your common coldness in January and February is near our record! So we usually get much lower (-25F is usually the lowest it gets in the depths of winter at night, it's usually in the negatives all the time or in the single digits during Jan/Feb)
November 22: First snow of the winter: 15 cm. I used a rubber sheet for an extra protection agains't the cold.
December 01: I've added some snow on my peat bog to protect it from the cold (-19 C)
December 21: We had 2 snow storm this week. The first one gave us 40 cm of snow in one day and the other one 35 cm. It's unusual to have this much snow so early in winter (160 cm in total oe 5 feet). The peat bog is under the snow moutain.
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Just spent the past half hour reading over this thread, and I thought your bog was incredible! I'm dying to do something like that, but I'm probably going to be moving out within a year, so I'm gonna have to hold off on any major projects (I don't think I could stand to build something that cool and then leave it behind)
NO MORE SNOW, PLEASE!!! Stop it. We're at 507 cm right now (16.4 ft). A few houses have collapsed in the province under the weight of snow. Spring, you are damn welcome!
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