Water Gardening: Planting lotus tuber using the rock method, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
Once I have my tubers where I want them, I'll place some rocks across them to hold them in place. Next, I add some water to the container. Provided the weather is nice I'll let the container stay outside. If snow or a freeze is predicted, I'll move them inside the garage where it stays above freezing.

Once the weather is warmed up they can go outside again. Around our last average frost date the containers go into the pond. I slowly let them take on water gradually. I also have a few extra rocks in case the lotus seem to need more weight to hold them down.

There are no koi in the pond where my lotus grow. Koi are known for rooting around in pots. You may want to look at other methods that involve pea gravel if you have koi in your water garden.

This message was edited Mar 29, 2009 10:51 PM