Gardening: Bring in the Chicks for Winter

There’s still time before the snow falls to gather up a few of your hens and chicks and sedums to make an indoor dish garden for your winter viewing pleasure. They have fairly shallow, coarse roots, so take care to get as much root as possible when separating the chicks from the hens and digging out sedum patches. Plant them in a wide burr fairly shallow “dish” with a large drainage hole(s). Likewise, the soilless media should be coarse with excellent drainage. Place your dish