Re: question on winterizing basjoo
Well, I'm trying something a little different this year. A little "tweak" on my plastic leaf bag mulching trick. Here's what I did:
I cut the plants back to about 2 feet tall, or a little less, just a little bit higher than my big bags of leaves. Then I took 5-6 bags of leaves and put them around the stem, leaving a hole in the middle about 2 feet across where the stem is. Then I opened up a couple bags of dry leaves and loosely placed them around the stems in the center of the opening, and then mounded them up over the top of the cut stems. So there's a big circle of bags, and a BIG mound of leaves in the middle. Then I took cheap blue plastic tarp and fastened it over the entire thing. So now it looks like I have a huge blue puffball in the yard, in several locations.
NOTE TO SELF: NEXT YEAR SPRING FOR THE BROWN TARPS!!!!
I think it will be my most successful mulching job ever, what do you think?
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