Thought I would share our citrus “manger”. South Carolina has a well established hearty citrus nursery in the lower part of the state, but we are in the upstate near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our winter can surprise us with an occasional single digit night.
In 2015 we covered the 3 beautiful kumquat plants that had thrived over the summer with a plastic
greenhouse AND cooked them as the sun baked them when I didn’t time the ventilation correctly. The next 2 years I faithfully drug one potted kumquat in & out of the house, but it flourished & provided fruit for the holidays. In the Spring of 2017 we added 2 lemon, a lime & a hearty orange to the rolling orchard with plans to build a
greenhouse with old windows & doors.
As life would have it, no greenhouse for 2 winters now. But my husband built this stick structure covering it with inexpensive moving blankets. He used a cheap grommet tool to make the connections.
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