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purpleinopp said: I had to add another .11 acorns to even it up.

Nancy, do you have a place outside where you can put the pots in a group and then cover with an enormous pile of leaves? That sounds a lot easier to me than root pruning and dragging heavy wet pots to the basement and back up later. The pile of leaves should keep everything underneath from freezing. Putting a tarp over could help keep the leaves in place, but if the pile is significant, getting too wet shouldn't be a problem. Some people turn pots sideways to do this but I never have when I've tried it. I would do a lot more of this if I could get enough leaves.

Thank you for evening them up! We get down to 0° here, I don't think a pile of leaves would protect them from that. Maybe a barricade of straw bales around them? But even then, the ground freezes, I really don't think I could protect them enough outdoors. I could try a couple behind the garage where they wouldn't ruin the grass (ruin as in make it bare mud instead of the creeping charlie weeds it is! ) just to see if it would work. And yes, I know from trying to keep hydrangea branches alive that bloom on old wood that the leaves blow away, would have to come up with something to keep them in place. If I knew that would work, I could roll the 20" planters back there as well and just cover them up. That gives me more to think about!

EscondidoCal said: I wonder if you could put some rhizomes on damp paper towels in
a ziplock in the refrigerator in the crisper with the celery, etc ?

My crisper is so full of seeds right now, I'd have to evict the few packages of cheese that still fit to do that! I think only 1 of them though might have rhizomes, the Purple & Bloom. The other 11 would be just regular roots, so it wouldn't save me a lot of trouble about moving them in the basement.

Definitely more to think about! Thank you both.