More Tropicals Protected For Winter & Many More To Go! 

When I used to live in Ingham north QLD, you could watch the tropical fruit trees grow, if you stood their long enough!! 🌴🍌🍍🥑🍆🍍🌴🌴

I have to buy a frost cloth tent for my Cassava plants so I don't risk losing all of my 7 plants because sometimes they will make it through winter time in the Newcastle area but it's the cold & frosty July weather which killed my last 2 cassava plants. I have all of my jackfruit trees planted in a greenhouse which will change next year when I plant them in the ground so they may need frost protection for them then,I'll see. I would like to buy a decent greenhouse for that sort of property because the small green one that I have at the moment got blown down last year by the huge westerly wind gusts that we get in August so I had to support it with heavier stakes, rope, etc. I would like to be able to fit more plants in it as well, we had a 25°C day today & the greenhouse got up to 35°C inside of it. I have my prized tropicals such as Red Papaya,King Thai & Scarlet Delight mango seedlings, longan & lychee seedlings as well as my Valencia orange seedlings,red dragon fruit seedlings,my 5 Jackfruit plants & 1 orange Cempedak plant inside of it. We won't see 14°C during the day perhaps until July which is the coldest time of the year, we will have a freak 27°C day this week followed by some rain & 19°C days. It will stay that cool from late May up until at least mid September when things will start to warm up,in the tropics such at Cairns it will stay at 25-26°C throughout the day during winter time !

I’m hoping my guava trees will survive the frost here, but I guess I’ll find out 😅 I only planted them this summer. I’m in Gloucester NSW, it gets pretty cold here mid to late winter.

You've really taken protecting plants seriously this year George, beautiful neat job of wrapping up those young plants 😁👍

Good on you! I am up in the start of the sub tropics in Port Stephens NSW and my black sappote died real quick.

How cold is the Winter of Melbourne

Hiya from NZ, great vlogs, I really enjoy your commentary. Would you recommend covering one year old white sapote,Sue Bell, mountain paw paw, Ice-cream bean to protect from frost? Many thanks

Hi George I have my Kensington Pride mango in a plastic greenhouse it's 6months planted in the ground in small green house frameand 5 feet high should I cover greenhouse with frost cloth or just the plastic cover I am in Adelaide I would appreciate your advice thankyou