[CH] Anti-frost measure

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Hi all,
I dunno if this will work for you, but my father has accidently discovered a
way of keeping the lower stem and roots alive over winter in a area that
frosts...

OK the area is the Karoo, which being a semi-desert, falls to about -6 deg
celsius at night and rises to about 25-30 deg celsius during the day.

The chillies in question are cayennes.

What he did was to arrange 4 normal building bricks around the bas of each
plant, this was originally place on plastic sheeting to facilitate controled
watering in a dry area... what happened was during the winter (it's spring
here now), the top of the plant died off, however the sun - warmed bricks
kept the lower stem and roots frost free each night and all barring a few
have over - wintered and started shooting again.

HTH

Cheers
Brent

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