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On today's 2 minute garden tip, I share the easiest way to protect fruit trees from cold weather. I've experimented with cold protection methods for 6 years, and this is the easiest cold protection method that I've found. It takes only seconds to do and is very inexpensive.
I'm growing 7 citrus trees and an avocado tree in ground in Zone 8 North Carolina with perfect success keeping these cold sensitive trees healthy. While they do tolerate frost and freeze, temperatures below 25°F (-4°C) can cause problems. We average 5-10 nights a year below these temperatures, so I've gained experience on what works best.
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Комментарии : 72   
@jneckcrank
@jneckcrank Месяц назад
Lots of folks didn’t know they could grow the citrus and now they do. Thanks from Tennessee
@ericstrong54
@ericstrong54 7 месяцев назад
You are the bomb! And the2 minute concept is brilliant.
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Glad you're enjoying it!
@mam564
@mam564 7 месяцев назад
You are the "guru" of all gardeners! Just love your tips! ❤
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
I appreciate it! I'm definitely no guru, though. I'm an engineer, so I love experimenting and building.
@karabean
@karabean 7 месяцев назад
OMG you are brilliant. I was wracking my brain for something I could use to warm up my plants, but I never thought about Christmas lights!!
@m9078jk3
@m9078jk3 7 месяцев назад
How festive too. Thanks for those fantastic educational Winter tips.
@claudiamiller7730
@claudiamiller7730 7 месяцев назад
Christmas lights - incandescent, of course - are a great idea for adding heat to a covered plant! Actually… my plant theory is any plant that can’t withstand several really cold WNC nights - doesn’t belong in my garden. Removing all those cutesy but sensitive plants was the first thing I addressed in my landscape when we moved here, and I gave them away on Craigslist to folks who were OK with fussing with them. Drastic approach, I know…but I just can’t be bothered with babying growing stuff that really has no place in our little micro-climate. There are plenty of lovely, cold hardy shrubs and flowering plants that can survive a few nippy nights on their own…and they all now live happily on my property!!💕
@paulanix7561
@paulanix7561 7 месяцев назад
We like to eat our landscape. I'd do this for those lovely oranges. Do you have fruit trees?
@claudiamiller7730
@claudiamiller7730 7 месяцев назад
@@paulanix7561 no - no fruit…but we do have bears and possums that will eat anything that isn’t nailed down!💕 I can certainly see the use for the covers on fruit trees…would hate to lose all those nice edibles!!
@wdking8833
@wdking8833 7 месяцев назад
Christmas lights! What a great idea!! Definitely gonna grab a string or three on the after-Christmas sale, and I saw this at the perfect time! Christmas in 6 days, so the sales will start next week. Thanks for this tip. I already use fitted sheets, we rarely have a really hard freeze and it usually warms back up the next day.
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Be careful waiting. Usually, the C9's sell out very early and they don't re-stock them. Usually, to get C9's, I have to buy them in November while they're still available in stores, because by December, they're gone. I think I have 10 strands in my attic that I keep just in case. It's important to have spares at all times in case a strand fails mid-winter.
@wdking8833
@wdking8833 7 месяцев назад
Woah, thanks for that tip. I have one place that might still have some, a small store nearby. Gonna give them a call right now and see. If not those are definitely on my shopping list next Christmas season, EARLY, lol.
@vintagelady1
@vintagelady1 7 месяцев назад
Great idea---where I live we only get 1-4 nights of below freezing. Another trick is to use clear plastic shower curtains. They cost 1.25 at $Tree & have magnets to weight them or attach to metal structures, but only for light freezes & relatively hardy plants. I'm also using a huge piece of heavy plastic but it's hard to manage. The sheet could be easily washed, & you cen get them REALLY cheaply at thrift stores.
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
The problem I've found with sheets is they blow off easily. You have to hold them down with bricks. The nice thing about the fitted sheets is they grab onto the trees somewhat, so the occasional light breeze doesn't dislodge them. Significant wind will, since at that point they'll turn into a parachute, but they are resistant to light breezes. The only thing that holds in significant winds are the drawstring plant jackets. Once you get to the 30mph wind range, nothing seems to hold, though. You need a plant jacket and then you have to pile things up against it to weigh it down.
@markb8954
@markb8954 7 месяцев назад
Id stay away from using any kind of plastic covering. Water will get trapped & freeze on the surfaces. Stay with a fabric.
@TexasNana2
@TexasNana2 7 месяцев назад
Great idea! I never thought about using a fitted sheet.. thanks 😊
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
It makes things so easy, and it actually holds on with a little breeze. Significant wind will blow it off, but it can tolerate light wind unlike a regular sheet.
@OleensEmbroidery
@OleensEmbroidery 7 месяцев назад
Love your two minute tips!
@dominicmoreno4662
@dominicmoreno4662 7 месяцев назад
More power to you
@mikencrew8885
@mikencrew8885 7 месяцев назад
That’s a great idea my friend
@susuhsullivan
@susuhsullivan 5 месяцев назад
Amazing tip with the Christmas lights!
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 5 месяцев назад
Glad it was helpful!
@rianajansevanrensburg2444
@rianajansevanrensburg2444 7 месяцев назад
Now that is very clever. Thank you for sharing. The light look so pretty
@TheDevilguy04
@TheDevilguy04 7 месяцев назад
So the fruit at the bottom won't be harmed when only the cover is on the top?
@sdoddles4533
@sdoddles4533 7 месяцев назад
Hero. My trees are going to be happier next time thanks to you for sure.
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Glad the video was helpful!
@samanthawhang7498
@samanthawhang7498 7 месяцев назад
I love this ide! It’s so pretty too. 😍
@ivahihopeful
@ivahihopeful 7 месяцев назад
Great tip! Thanks!
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
You're welcome!
@lpmoron6258
@lpmoron6258 7 месяцев назад
I will remember the Christmas light truck if i can ever get rosemary growing again! It has frozen out the past 3 winters.
@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority
@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority 7 месяцев назад
I'm using those lights in my well house too.. had a blow out last year, don't want an encore performance
@0anant0
@0anant0 7 месяцев назад
Good idea!
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Thanks!
@sylvia10101
@sylvia10101 7 месяцев назад
Thank you MG!! 😊👍👍
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
You're welcome!
@Rensheppy
@Rensheppy 7 месяцев назад
Awesome
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Thanks!
@dfreak01
@dfreak01 7 месяцев назад
I buy TONS of sheets at the thrift shop for about $2 each. They worked fine to block the extreme heat, too.
@TraciMann
@TraciMann 7 месяцев назад
We lost our peach tree one winter- this is great info- thank you!
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
From cold? It's gotta get pretty cold to kill a peach tree 😰
@LadyElaineLovegood
@LadyElaineLovegood 7 месяцев назад
I'm surprised you can still get incandescent lights but It's a great use for the heat they put off.
@ae2948
@ae2948 7 месяцев назад
Surprisingly, the LED ones also make heat. You see all those shows where they put fairy lights in a jar? That jar gets HOT. And so do the wires. Dangerously hot.
@katiem9644
@katiem9644 7 месяцев назад
Good stuff. Do the incandescents get hot enough that they can burn or ever start the plant jackets on fire?
@EdimentalGardens
@EdimentalGardens 7 месяцев назад
No, they only get warm, never hot
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
They’re warm, not hot, and basically designed to contact foliage. Just inspect your cords and bulbs before use every year and only use outdoor rated sets. I’ve been doing this for over 5 years with great success with sheets and plant jackets.
@katiem9644
@katiem9644 7 месяцев назад
You're the best!@@2MinuteGardenTips
@dawnteskey3259
@dawnteskey3259 7 месяцев назад
Thanks! I have fig trees that will benefit from this idea!
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
Keep in mind mind covers only keep frost off. If you need added warmth, you’ll need help from lights, a warm house wall, water barrels, etc.
@dawnteskey3259
@dawnteskey3259 7 месяцев назад
@@2MinuteGardenTips Right, I do need added warmth, so I'll add the lights.
@dovinhgarden05
@dovinhgarden05 5 месяцев назад
Tuyệt vời
@rawhoney2199
@rawhoney2199 7 месяцев назад
I would pick the fruit juice and freeze the juice. I juice alot.
@abarenas3018
@abarenas3018 7 месяцев назад
nice coat yo :)
@hazeysgarden
@hazeysgarden 7 месяцев назад
Do the small little incandescent Christmas lights generate any amount of heat? I have my tomato bed / trellis covered in those small incandescent lights. However they are never warm to the touch or anything. You can’t really feel any heat coming off of those lights.
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
I only used the mini-lights when the trees were small. My young citrus trees couldn't hold the big C9's, so I had to use 2 strands of 100 incandescent mini-lights from the start. They generate 40W each, so two strands were 80W. Since the trees are small, and the plant jackets used at that age are small, 80W did a good job in a small space. However, now the trees in this video are far too large for mini-lights. I prefer 2 strands of C9's per tree of this size.
@realstatistician
@realstatistician 7 месяцев назад
And get the sheets from a thrift store 👍
@eddieable
@eddieable 5 месяцев назад
great video. is it costly to run those types of lights each night?
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 5 месяцев назад
Not really, no. I don't notice it.
@MispelledOnPurpose
@MispelledOnPurpose 7 месяцев назад
I guess my trees need the lights too. I'm in 8b but it does freeze a few nights per winter. I lost a lot of trees last winter from a 2 day freeze even though I had those frost bags on them. Hundreds of dollars in trees, plus the babying that I did all lost. I took the frost bags off and the leaves all fell to the ground, then nothing but dead brown sticks in the ground come spring.
@dfreak01
@dfreak01 7 месяцев назад
I'm 8b, too. Some of my dead twigs actually came back. I was shocked.
@MrEunderwood
@MrEunderwood 7 месяцев назад
Will longer strands of the smaller incandescent tree lights be equally effective, or are the c9's a must?
@CricketsBay
@CricketsBay 7 месяцев назад
C9's work because they generate enough heat. Other kinds of string lights don't.
@christygarcia4843
@christygarcia4843 7 месяцев назад
When it was 10 degrees here in the Dallas area the last two winters, I used the tiny incandescent lights under mover’s blankets. There was enough heat, since it couldn’t easily escape. Sheets probably would not have been enough.
@soyoucametosee7860
@soyoucametosee7860 7 месяцев назад
Any old sheet will work. Does not have to be new.
@mickden3155
@mickden3155 7 месяцев назад
Your an ideas man !😂
@ptypablo
@ptypablo 7 месяцев назад
What does the drum of water do exactly?
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
It holds 60 gallons of water, which is a radiation heat source. It warms up all day and discharges warmth at night.
@BPe-ie9je
@BPe-ie9je 7 месяцев назад
how about baby trees,,,, no. MI
@littlebrookreader949
@littlebrookreader949 7 месяцев назад
I thought that incandescent lights were off the market … They’re not?
@2MinuteGardenTips
@2MinuteGardenTips 7 месяцев назад
No. They are specialty lights. They're all over every store right now.
@littlebrookreader949
@littlebrookreader949 7 месяцев назад
@@2MinuteGardenTips Thanks! 👍👍 Cha-ching, Cha-ching……
@rauljimenez8132
@rauljimenez8132 6 месяцев назад
@@littlebrookreader949 Home Depot had them at 1/2 price last week.
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