Winterizing Flowering Bushes: Winter Protection With a Shrub Shelter

Completing the Grid

Crosspieces being laid perpendicularly to form a grid.

David Beaulieu

Those first 2 crosspieces that you have laid will now serve as horizontal supports for the remaining 5. Lay the remaining 5 crosspieces on top, equi-distant from each other and perpendicular to the first 2 crosspieces laid. The grid is complete. For a picture of the completed shrub shelter, plus an idea for a related project, please see Page 10....

Index: Winterizing Flowering Bushes: Winter Protection With a Shrub Shelter

1. Preventive Shrub Care: Understanding the Need for Winter Protection
2. Gathering the Poles for the Shelter
3. Fashioning the Crosspieces of the Snow and Ice Shelter
4. Preparations for Excavating for the Shrub Shelter
5. Excavation for the Shrub Shelter
6. Optional: Whittling the Vertical Poles to a Sharp Point
7. Installing the Vertical Support Pieces
8. Filling Your Forks With Crosspieces
9. Completing the Grid
10. A Free Shelter - - Completed