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Winterizing Flowering Bushes: Winter Protection With a Shrub Shelter

By David Beaulieu, About.com

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Preparations for Excavating for the Shrub Shelter

Poles being used as excavating guideline

Poles being used as excavating guidelines for the shrub shelter.

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Now that the pole cutting is done, it's time to bring the poles back to where your shrub stands in your garden or lawn. You need to excavate the holes needed for installing the four forked poles -- the poles that will serve as vertical supports for the crosspieces.

Lay out 4 of your 6' crosspieces to form a temporary rectangle around your bush. This will serve as a guide for digging the 4 holes into which you'll be placing the 4 forked poles. You'll dig on the inner side of each of the 4 corners of your rectangular pole guide.

On Page 5 we proceed with the digging....

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