- Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:43 pm
#73174
I posted a little less than a year ago about trying to grow a VFT outdoors 30 miles north of Washington DC in Maryland (USDA zone 7). I found that most said I could but only in a bog garden. I started reading up on bog gardens and am hoping one of the ideas I researched will work. It was to place a tarp or pond liner about in a hole about 1 too 2 feet deep. Then place the correct mixture (peat moss, silica sand, ect) into the tarp/pond liner and then water until it becomes "bogged" in water. The tarp would hamper drainage to keep the soil moist and keep minerals from leaching into the VFT's soil. Do you think this will work. I would put this garden in partial to full sun. In the winter I would place burlap and pine-needles to protect the plant.
Thanks for any advice!
TJ
This is a picture of what I want to base my Garden on.
Thanks for any advice!
TJ
This is a picture of what I want to base my Garden on.