I need some good advice

Smokymist

Smokymist

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For the past 6 years, we've had one tragedy after another. We were supposed to have moved, years ago, my son and I. He lives with me. Then we ended up moving mom in and being her caretaker for a year and a half, then had to handle things, etc, as she passed.
My point...we were supposed to have moved before another season of, I need to move everything IN to the house for colder temps. My larger potted figs, I still don't trust to East TN weather...it can get cold here. So normally I move the pots all together on one section of property and pile hay around them. Then I have a 24 x 16' greenhouse, that we can't heat ( safety reasons, had a fire in it before and it's next to the house )....and I'll move things in there,and pull frost bags over some of my borderline poms, and again, sometimes will pile hay.
THEN, there are the giant tropical leafy alocasias and colocasias, and lilies, that are all tropical, that we drag into the garage.
The problem is, we're working on the house, to put it on the market.
ANY suggestions on a way to keep things from the cold, without having to move them all into the garage so we can continue working on it ? I know I know..my fault for loving tropical plants.
 
Have any close by friends that might could help with storage for the tropicals? Unheated greenhouse is all I have too. I plan to fill my little greenhouse and then put others up against the house and cover with plastic and tarps.
 
superdave336 said:
Have any close by friends that might could help with storage for the tropicals? Unheated greenhouse is all I have too. I plan to fill my little greenhouse and then put others up against the house and cover with plastic and tarps.
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No......no family and no close friends. Sounds sad I know.
 
snarfing said:
could do frost cloths and old fashioned christmas light or actual heaters. with christmas lights + frost cloth can get you 5-10 degrees
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I've never thought Christmas lights provides enough heat. Heaters ? No, not after the greenhouse fire we had years ago that nearly took out our house. It was a heater shorting out that caused it. The greenhouse is too close to my house. I've ordered more frost clothes, like I said in my original post I do use those.
 
Smokymist said:
I've never thought Christmas lights provides enough heat. Heaters ? No, not after the greenhouse fire we had years ago that nearly took out our house. It was a heater shorting out that caused it. The greenhouse is too close to my house. I've ordered more frost clothes, like I said in my original post I do use those.
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If rheyre incandescent they do. Led ones dont
 
You ever try pipe heaters?
It's basically just a wire that wraps around the pipes, I believe @TorontoJoe uses or used them.
No open heating element....may provide enough heat to get them through the winter.
 
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