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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Tom
  I am in zone 5 and I do the same as Lucky, Pots above ground, in a circle 
starting in the middle. I put up a 18 inch high chicken wire a little bigger 
so that I can stuff leaves down around and in between followed by couple 
inch layer to top it off. But the plants stick up. This year i have a 2 year 
old chip pile. I shoveled out a flat spot, moved all potted plants into it 
and hilled around and some on top. I put protective tubes over the stock to 
keep away from rabbits mostly.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, Michigan
gc_nofs@hotmail.com

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
Reply-To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [nafex] Potted Apple/Quince Trees?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:13:00 -0500

Tom,
I've overwintered apple/quince, pawpaw, oak, pecan/hickory/walnut in
above-ground pots, though my zone 6 winter may be milder than yours.  I
usually try to get all my containerized stuff into one central location in
the garden and mulch heavily around (and over, to some degree) with
leaves/pine needles.
Only real failures I can think of have been an occasional fig that probably
would have done better if I'd gone to the trouble of actually sinking it in
the ground.  However, I had some that survived last winter above ground,
and I never even got around to doing the mulch thang.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY



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