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Overwinter potted plants
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Sort into three groups.
Hardy stays out protected, half-hardy wants a cold bright room, tropical comes into the warmth. The label or a search decides.
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Move before the first hard frost.
Pots freeze through from all sides: container plants die at temperatures their ground-planted siblings survive.
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Cold and bright beats warm and dark.
Five to ten degrees with light (stairwell, garage window, cold greenhouse) keeps half-hardies asleep instead of starving.
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Water barely, feed never.
A sip a month against total drying. Winter growth is weak, pale and pest-prone.
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Insulate what stays outside.
Pot on wood blocks, wrapped in jute or bubble wrap, pushed to the house wall, watered on frost-free days. Most winter pot deaths are drought, not cold.
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#1 becomes the Core. This atoma is young: submit a better distillation and take the seat.
No gear needed. Your pot, a timer and ice are enough. That is the point.
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