I'm curious to see how mine makes out, too. Paul's adventurous spirit inspired me to try a JI. My approach was a "tad' different.....I excavated the soil from an area about 4' X5', to a depth of about 1', lined the hole with a plastic" liner" (actually some heavy gauge plastic tarping), and refilled with my "soil mix" (1/2 peat, 1/4 composted manure. 1/4 topsoil, but in this case, I used "river muck" instead of the topsoil). Our water here, is also quite sweet, at least the "deep well" water, but I always use from our "shallow well" sandpoint for watering plants, and with that area of the garden mulched, fairly well with pine straw, rain, even in dry situations and a full sun situation ,seems to keep my artificial "bog" damp. It's just an experiment, to se if a Ji and a couple La's will make it here, and, so far (the plants were put in last year) the foliage is healthy, and they seem to be growing fast ! The "divisions I got were 'nice sized" (at least I think so!), so, we'll see what happens !
