Sure sounds like you did. You created the perfect environment for bacterial
and fungal rot!!

What possessed you to do what you did?

Why didn't you just leave the plants alone?


SBHCOM wrote in message
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I think I messed up bad, this was the first year I winterized roses (I
live in
Michigan). I cut them down to about 6 inches from the ground and then
placed
old plastic pots on top of them. I then cut slits in the top and filled
them
with black pine mulch. When I removed the pots yesterday I found the
roses in
terrible shape, the stems seem to all have rotted. I think I really
screwed up

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a dumb man something to stick in
his
mouth.