Is this enough protection for my pots?

9 years ago

OK, another year, another winter. Another attempt to protect my 18' ceramic plant filled with mini hosts and two other 12" planters, with Wheeee! and heuchie Georgia Peach in them. Last year's experiment was placing a Rubbermaid Brute green garbage can over the stacked pots with a prominent label "Winter Plant Shelter", which was stolen.

This year, I went with 2 large spring green plastic bowls I had poked a hot screwdriver through on the sides, both to ruin them for other uses by potential thieves and to give me a place to hook my bungee cords into. The 18" pot was covered with---now don't laugh, but I know you will---a saucer type plastic sled disk. It fit over the 18" pot with about 3" extending beyond the pot. I put some of the holes I poked into the 2 green bowls a bit too high---do you think a lot of precip can enter the pots through 4 holes approximately 1/8" in diameter? Is a 3" overhang of the plastic sled enough to keep the 18" sufficiently dry?

Only the Shadow knows...and maybe some of you!

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
probably not.. if you dip into z6 or 5b ...

you run a great risk not un-potting ceramics.. in my z5 experience ...

you will have a run of mild winters... and will win.. but sooner or later ... you wont. ...

do you know who phil was???

ken
bkay2000
9 years ago
It should keep them dry, which is her object.

bk
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esther_b
Original Author
9 years ago
I am trying to recall who Phil was. My intention was to keep water out of my ceramic pot so that it would not freeze, expand, and crack my pot. Not to insulate it.

At least the nasty maintenance men and the "landscape workers" have not (yet) removed the plastic bowl caps and the saucer sled cap...
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
phil was a freak

do you read any other posts ???

ken
esther_b
Original Author
9 years ago
I definitely read other posts. On several of the forums. But if the heading is "Hosta Silicon" and I don't really have an interest in Hosta Silicon, I don't read it. What do you mean by "freak"? And I don't like to apply such labels to people unless I personally know them and they are undeniably nuts.
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
9 years ago
Esther... I would direct you to this link. Please, read it.

Here is a link that might be useful: I will miss hostafreak