As JT said, you really have no choice
I'm in Pa. and have had this dilemma a few times myself. mine are all in pots these days due to it was getting too hard on these old bones to have to dig up 6 foot brugs every fall. Anyway, as the old saying goes, "you win some, you lose some, and, some get rained out", and that's the way it was with the ones with pods, some made it and some didn't, in my opinion, it's the luck of the draw.
Dan