The Kimoto Carnivorous Plant Blog

Thus far I have always grown my outdoor CP’s using the tray method. I use undrained glazed ceramic pots with plastic pots nested inside. This way the plants get water level that they prefer and yet it looks nice.

However, the number of individual pots had reached the point where it was getting unmanagable, which led me to investigate creating a minibog.

After looking at various places, I finally found a large, undrained pot that was glazed both inside and out at my local Sloat Garden Center.

I then bought some washed sand and sphagnum peat to make the soil, since I was planning to plant primarily Dionaea. I also bought some 2-inch PVC pipe which I thought that I would use to monitor the water table level in the pot.

Coming next… Construction