Prepare for even colder weather in San Antonio by protecting cold-sensitive plants
San Antonio-area temperatures in the 40s and even the 30s the last few weeks have reminded us that we need to be ready for even colder weather.
If you have your limes, lemons and satsumas in movable containers, you can move them into shelter temporarily when temperatures are forecast to be lower than 30 degrees or you can cover them. One set up that makes it relatively easy to move them into shelter when temperatures fall below freezing is to have them growing in one of the large black plastic whiskey barrel sized containers that can be moved on a wheeled apparatus.
The degree of threat from cold weather is not a simple concept. The most obvious threat is reflected in the temperature. The lower it is, the greater chance there is for damage. There are, of course, other factors to consider in addition to temperature. Each plant species and even varieties within species have differing degrees of sensitivity to cold. A Mexican lime would be seriously damaged by 28 degrees, but a kumquat would not be hurt.Another factor is the length of the expected cold spell.
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