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When is everyone starting fleecing?

NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
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I’ve had 2 frosts now. And I have a few tenders which have survived the past two nights, but not sure if that’s it now with cold nights until spring.. 
i want to leave them as long as possible, but also don’t want to risk it either haha. 
When is everyone else starting to fleece and protect your tenders? 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,894
    We've brought a big potted begonia indoors ... it’s still blooming magnificently ... but the canna is still outside. The only thing we’ll fleece is the fig and we’ll only do that if a sharp frost is forecast. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,145
    Never fleeced anything, not even in our last garden in central Belgium which regularly had frosts in the -20sC.   Pots of plants that were susceptible to excess frost or wet were taken in under cover and kept dry but without extra insulation till growth started again in spring and that just left chilies which would be grown on in the kitchen on a south facing windowsill.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,919
    I’ve never fleeced anything but I have brought the agapanthus in the lean too GH. 
    I bought some tiny begonia plugs earlier, they made huge corms so I will be bringing those in soon to dry out and store. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 11,179
    I don't fleece much as most of my plants are now mature. I drag the agapanthus pots, lilies and hosta into our small courtyard bit and rig up a shelter under old glass panels.If it gets very cold in Jan/Feb, then I might chuck a bit of fleece over them.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,116
    I don't really grow anything that would need fleecing.
    I do as Lyn does with plants that I'm growing on if they're small - little greenhouse, or even just under a table or my bench.
    If anything can't survive our winters here, I don't really want them. Too much effort ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 614
    I don't fleece because I find it very unsightly. I want to enjoy the serenity of a winter garden, and fleece detracts in no small amount from that. Hence plants need to be able to survive the winter.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,052
    The only thing I fleece is me, the nights are getting a bit cool now, so I am just about to don one. So far we have resisted the urge to light the 🔥 but it won’t be long...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,116
    Nollie said:
    The only thing I fleece is me, the nights are getting a bit cool now, so I am just about to don one. So far we have resisted the urge to light the 🔥 but it won’t be long...

    I'm regularly fleeced Nollie... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,052
    Thought you Scottish folk are meant to be canny as well as hardy, @Fairygirl :)
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,145
    Agree with @micearguers.  Fleece is unsightly and, as far as I can tell ends up looking even worse at the end of winter after it's been well and truly scragged by winter winds and rains.  Plastic, so bad for the environment too.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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