AngrieWoman wrote

I wandered to your site - how do you grow cattails in a container?

When my fellows go hunting in the fall they bring me back all sorts of stuff.
One year I took the fuzz off the cattails. I added garden soil into the
container, smeared the fuzz around in it and filled it with water.
I think the cattail tub is in its fourth summer. It winters over just fine in
our zone 7a winters. It is also next to the house. The third tub out, the most
exposed tub, wintered over its black rush this year. The middle tub lost its
lotus, jj and I think, during a very early cold snap, but the arrowhead came
through fine.


Can you over winter them, or do you replace them annually?

I love dwarf papyrus and that one I replace annually. It grows in the middle
tub.

Don't you get mosquitoes in your little pondlets?

I use Mosquito Bits. I've used minnows, snails and tadpoles before but this
summer with so many 90+ days it is not a good environment for them. And with
West Nile I want to be extra careful. I also have three tubs in the yard in a
shady area. I grow rushes and duckweed in those tubs.


k30a
and the watergardening labradors
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