Yeah, I think that as long as you get periodic rains, this sort of garden can pretty much be left to it's own devices with very little maintenance needed. Any bugs that try to go in there to eat the plants get eaten themselves.
I did have to put fencing around the mini bogs to keep armadillos from rooting around in them, though. We've got some around here. Silly little buggers. The babies will pretty much root right around your feet if you don't make any sudden movements. But still, they play hell in the gardens, and the mini bogs are damp enough to attract their unwanted attention.
Besides that, just sunlight and enough rainwater and the flytraps appear to be happy and able to take care of themselves with the bugs they catch. Climate appears to be OK for them where I am located, since they are natively found in coastal North Carolina, and people who work with them seem to think a small dormancy period in the Winter is good for them.
I guess I'm wondering how they will do long term since I'm not refreshing the medium any. I guess time will tell on that.
Maybe this Winter I'll put in a larger bog by using a kiddie pool liner. Would be nice to find some sort of liner that would keep two separate water levels so I could figure out what the sundews like. I still have some apparently thriving, but they don't seem as happy as the fly traps apparently are.
I did have to put fencing around the mini bogs to keep armadillos from rooting around in them, though. We've got some around here. Silly little buggers. The babies will pretty much root right around your feet if you don't make any sudden movements. But still, they play hell in the gardens, and the mini bogs are damp enough to attract their unwanted attention.
Besides that, just sunlight and enough rainwater and the flytraps appear to be happy and able to take care of themselves with the bugs they catch. Climate appears to be OK for them where I am located, since they are natively found in coastal North Carolina, and people who work with them seem to think a small dormancy period in the Winter is good for them.
I guess I'm wondering how they will do long term since I'm not refreshing the medium any. I guess time will tell on that.
Maybe this Winter I'll put in a larger bog by using a kiddie pool liner. Would be nice to find some sort of liner that would keep two separate water levels so I could figure out what the sundews like. I still have some apparently thriving, but they don't seem as happy as the fly traps apparently are.