Anyone else tried planting in the woods? I went right up into a distant part of our woodland area and dropped one of my plants into the ground.
Apart from being eaten by slugs and snails its doing pretty good.
I was wandering if anyone else has ever given it a go and if they felt it was ok to lay slug pellets around the plants stem. The first thing i though when someone mentioned it to me was what about the ecosystem?? I thought it was best to leave shit like that out of the woods. Im sure it couldnt hurt that much but is there an alternitive?
Anyone used em before??
I also used a length of green chicken wire to enclose the plant so to stop deer eating the the little thing.

Anywhere heres a top couple of tips id give to anyone thinking of giving it a try.

1 - location - MOST IMPORTANT
Id say this is probably the most important factor. Wouldnt you agree? Find somewhere well hidden from the public eye. If it gets found there will be hell to pay. If you can find a hidden spot on common land id say thats the best place to do it.
Pick your location carefully, take into account all aspects.
Wind, water, light, privacy...

2 - light -
Make sure your plant will recieve addiquate lighting. If planting benieth the canopy of the trees make sure the plant is situated in a suitably sunny spot, somewhere where the canopy breaks and you can see the sky. Maybe visit the site three times in a day so you can check if the sun cuts through the trees all day.

3 - Large amimals (deer etc) -
I wrapped chicken wire in a cylinder big enough to fit round my plant. This should keep the bastards out. Hang some foliage off the sides. Holy and the like, just to keep it lookin green   Im not sure but i have a feeling deer dont eat holly.

4 - small animals (insects) -
Slugs and snails have been my biggest problem. Easily fixed? Well if youve got a method add it to the bottom of this post.

Final things to consider.
soil - Is normally full of roots outside of the back yard so prepare for a difficult dig if your plant is large.
Up in the woods the leaves that blanket the floor at this time act like an excellent blanket, keeping the moist soil you'll find benieth from cooling to much.

visits - Be paranoid. It cant hurt. Check your not being followed and be careful how many people you tell or take to visit the plant. Thats up to you but you know whats sensible right? Be careful how much foliage you smash up as you walk to your plant if you have to take a specific route. If not take a slightly different route each time. This will prevent any visable track appearing.

water - shouldnt worry to much about water. I gave mine a splash when i first transfered it but havnt worried since.

Anyway hope that makes sense, catch you all later.

thats how half asleep i am, didnt realise there was a pinned message on the same topic as this    Oh well....

get some near or pure copper wire and wrap it losely in a coil around the base of stem. copper burns snails and slugs and there no change of getting them on the plants unless they like drop from trees ninja style (unlikely).
problem solved.

Great Post have 8 plants ready to go out as soon as the temp levels off.

Nice one re the copper wire!

apprentice

cheers imspvi, first time ive heard that one.
Tanks for the tip

Big bag of sweepings from your barber or hairdresser shop.....these keep slugs off my hostas, and everything else in the grden.....old hair is quite resistant to rain too, more s than slug pellets...

Mono...x

 Brilliant, I spent most of last summer combatting slugs & snails in my garden (they were eating everything !. Being a peace loving hippy, I couldn't bring myself to kill any and ended up putting a layer of sharp gravel around the plants. This did actually work, but doesn't look very good unless you're growing in pots.

 So I'll be trying out the copper wire and hair ideas this weekend.