"Howard" (remove XYZ) wrote:

What do you mean by closed pots ?

For years, I have used 3-gallon food-grade pails; they're big enough for
hardly lilies to do fine if fed occasionally. Available cheap or free from
your local bakery/donut shop, since they get fillings in them. I confess
to using Lilypons' "Lilytabs" for feeding, which are probably too
expensive, but for a couple dozen lilies fed perhaps 3 times over the
season, it's one of the cheaper things in life.
FWIW, I use a "Lilyliftr" to move them around: 10-foot hunk of wood closet
rod with a screw hook in the end. The deluxe model has a stainless hose
clamp (the type that tightens with a screw) around the hook end of the rod
to prevent splitting. It hangs horizontally in the shed on a couple of
bike hooks alongside the string trimmer when not in use. Has lasted for
years.
Right now all this is under at least a foot of ice {:-(


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G