Yeah, let’s make a bog….ugh.
So I always wanted to have a nice big Sarracenia bog, with all the beautiful Sphagnum moss, growing with all the red and purple tips.
So step one…
Think….you need to have a vision of what you want in the end. Like I said above, I just wanted a nice big Sarracenia bog with moss growing and carpeting the entire thing. I also wanted it to be portable so I could move it come winter (we are after all in Central Illinois.)
So in comes the raised garden bed.
Step two…
How are we going to keep it from being destroyed from what we hoped would be years of use? After all isn’t that water just going to rot the wood and eventually just overall decay the bed?
Yep, so... Pond liner! (Link Below 👇)
The garden bed above came with four holes predrilled into the bottom, which we bought standard wine corks to plug them with. However we kept one available for drainage. (But kept the cork, you’ll see why)
Step 3: Drainage…
Rember that cork we talked about? Well after the liner was installed we grabbed a 4” diameter piece of pvc pipe. We cut it to a height slightly higher than the the top of the garden bed. We then cut two slits about 5” up from the bottom of the pvc (that we later wrapped in fine screen and zip tied in place so only water would get into the pvc) this would allow a small tube for a small hand (Sarah's hand) to access the cork. So if it rains and the bog fills to full, or if we want to flush stagnant water we just pull the cork, water drains out, boom done!
Drain hole is in this ☝️ pvc tube (corked)
So here ☝️ is a pic of the completed bog, and below is the first pics of the bog filled, planted and “seeded”. There are around 60 rhizomes of Sarracenia species in there! We also seeded* it with a mix of green, red, and purple Sphagnum moss.
*For more information on how to “seed" or “spore" your bog contact us via social media.
This 👇 picture was taken March 6, 2021 at 1:48 pm. We plan on updating the “Bog Blog” regularly, so check back often for our hopeful success or unexpected failures.
