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Originally Posted by beam2050
most have been talking about basjoos, another animal. yes if the p-stem falls cut it. I don't get to anxious until spring and see whats moving and what isn't. I have to many to worry about so I worry about a few. like you each winter is different for me so its hard to tell what to do unless you know which plants you really have to worry about. garbage cans can give a certain amount of protection if their small enough. from what I have seen so far just throwing a blanket or sheet seems like it does more damage than not doing it.
do you know what you have?
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Yes, I have basjoo. My OP was that I always wrapped them with blankets and bubble wrap, but others near me with basjoo would end up much taller plants than I did and they did nothing to protect them. So, cincinnana above offered some thoughts and I decided to just let them go to the ground this year and just mulch the heck out of them. What I have done so far is completely surround them in 10" of mulch and put blankets around them. I planned to cut them when they fell and then put more mulch on top, but no blanket over the p-stem. In my way back, I did not wrap them and I did end up with more of a large grouping of plants, while the ones I wrapped ended up only being the main p-stem I wrapped with limited new ones popping up. So, I was just mixing it up. I also got flowers this year and a few p-stems are lost anyway.