This is a log of my first attempt to overwinter anything, so should be interesting. Since I am in a fairly mild winter climate (high 30's low 40's av. dec/jan low) with usually only a handful of nights below freezing I decided to attempt to do an outdoor overwinter.
So far I have:
Built a few raised beds out of re purposed fence redwood. After that I placed one of the raised beds over/around my pre-existing in ground pepper plants. Then I shovelled in a bunch of dirt to fill the raised beds and aggressively pruned the foliage on my peppers to make them more compact and fit in a hoophouse with room to grow over the winter months. Then I built a cheap hoophouse using youtube guide using PVC, pipe straps, zip ties, 4 mil clear plastic, and some clamps.
Here are a few pics:
I've been sick the past week so had plenty of gatorade bottles to use a solar heat storage containers
You can see a bit of tip yellowing on some leaves that I assume is from the leaves not being used to that much sun, since they used to be leaves underneath the canopy until I hacked/pruned them way back. I put up a sun barrier for them the first day I pruned them but then they got full sun from day 2 on.
So far I have:
Built a few raised beds out of re purposed fence redwood. After that I placed one of the raised beds over/around my pre-existing in ground pepper plants. Then I shovelled in a bunch of dirt to fill the raised beds and aggressively pruned the foliage on my peppers to make them more compact and fit in a hoophouse with room to grow over the winter months. Then I built a cheap hoophouse using youtube guide using PVC, pipe straps, zip ties, 4 mil clear plastic, and some clamps.
Here are a few pics:
I've been sick the past week so had plenty of gatorade bottles to use a solar heat storage containers
You can see a bit of tip yellowing on some leaves that I assume is from the leaves not being used to that much sun, since they used to be leaves underneath the canopy until I hacked/pruned them way back. I put up a sun barrier for them the first day I pruned them but then they got full sun from day 2 on.