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[Hans Brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>]

Hallo Goeffrey,
your "chicken-wire-leaf-mulch method" is really excellent - if 
properly/right used!
In any case this is the method No. 1 which is used from ALL Botanical 
Gardens (temperate zone)
around the wold. If they leave their plants outside...
Sometimes the wire and/or the mulch/leaf are modified, but the system is 
always the same!
Some special plants (e.g. banana trunks) like it additionally, if we put 
a water proof roof material on top only.

It is right, Styrofoam is not good, because of no evaporation/diffusion.

Ciao
Hans




Jim Fruth schrieb:
> Goeffrey wrote:
>       "Another technique that I've read of is to put a chicken wire cage
> around the plant then in-fill with leaf mulch. This can provide several
> different types of protection at once. I believe that this has been used
> with hardy bananas in zone 5."
>
> Goeffrey,
>     Don't try that technique for winter protection.  My mother used to raise 
> 200 Hybrid Tea roses and every year she and Dad used to bury them using a 
> technique that came to be called the "Minnesota tip."  When she heard about 
> the chicken-wire with leaves in it, she tried it and lost every one of her 
> prized plants.  By the way, those styrofoam plant covers are equally 
> worthless for winter protection.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
> www.bberryfarm.com
> (218)568-8483 [Store]
> (218)831-7018 [My Cell]
>
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