Now I have another question about these cloth beds............
I was talking to the lily nook last night........ a few bulbs are still on the way......
Nigel was saying he was wandering how the 12 inch deep beds will be with a cold winter here in zone 5. we get plenty of snow to insulate the beds but is more the cold on the sides that he is worried about and thought might or might not be an issue........
they are round.......
do I just put an additional couple of frost blankets around the side of it
or LOTS of mulch on top of the bed.........
he said they might have been fine without a bottom built in but they still breathe there as well
kinda lost on how to approach this
but winter will come
3 of them are planted and filled now and so on
3 more are still being planted and filled yet.....
any thoughts on this
I have a lot of money tied up in these bulbs this year.............
just wandering how to insulate the big round bed over winter......more or if I have too
he says as far as napelense is concerned......he is just planted them under a bush and he is zone 3 and thinks they might be fine there and come up this year. he says sometimes they do and some years he looses them due to the winter..... he thought covering mine with a plexie glass for the fall would work good once is done blooming and the raise it for the snow to cover the ground.. I was thinking of putting plastic over them in the ground but he liked the idea of the glass shelf that moved up and over the small tiny garden on a slant better......
willing to hear what you all have to say
