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Whwoz · December 27, 2016

To all those who post here about over wintering bell peppers and/or chillies, I thank you for the inspiration to have an attempt to do so. While here about 100 miles east of Melbourne, Vic, Australia, we do not the extremely low winter temps that you folks get, we get enough frosts to kill bell peppers/chillies. It was my intention to initially lift and pot up a sample of what I had growing last season but time got away from me and we were looking at frost conditions with plants still in the ground. A quick construction job with some PVC tubing and an old tarp thrown over the plants as needed saw 14 out of 18 survive the winter, most of which now have small fruit on them, leading to plans for a more permanent system of maintaining these plants year round.

Thanks again

Woz

December 27, 2016	#1
Whwoz Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 870	Thanks for the Inspiration To all those who post here about over wintering bell peppers and/or chillies, I thank you for the inspiration to have an attempt to do so. While here about 100 miles east of Melbourne, Vic, Australia, we do not the extremely low winter temps that you folks get, we get enough frosts to kill bell peppers/chillies. It was my intention to initially lift and pot up a sample of what I had growing last season but time got away from me and we were looking at frost conditions with plants still in the ground. A quick construction job with some PVC tubing and an old tarp thrown over the plants as needed saw 14 out of 18 survive the winter, most of which now have small fruit on them, leading to plans for a more permanent system of maintaining these plants year round. Thanks again Woz