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| Rosemary in Bloom |
One technique I employ as space allows is to bring in some of the tender perennial plants to winter over. If I can in fact, keep them alive all winter, I'll be somewhat ahead of the game in the next season. It also livens up the indoor "garden" throughout the coldest season. This rosemary is a pleasant companion as it blooms in my cool dining room, several times over the winter months.
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| Joe's Long Cayenne |
Peppers are able to keep plugging along if you decrease the water and treat them a bit like they are dormant over the winter. If you keep watering deeply the plants will continue to put on new green tender growth and the aphids and other indoor gang beasties will go to town and really make the plants suffer by spring. Even without the various indoor plagues, the plants sometimes die back. I have found that as long as the roots remain unfrozen and viable the plant will regenerate as the sun gets stronger and longer in presence. By May I am moving these buckets out to the porch and back as the weather requires. In June I pop them back in the ground for a thorough rejuevenation. This puts me ahead with their production as they are sizable and have a huge root system to grow from quickly.
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Nothing beats a fruiting plant in the middle of the winter. |
