AGAVE WINTER PROTECTION
By Mitten
United Kingdom
How should I protect am agave plant from frost,please?
Large plant - c 4 ft tall.
- 14 Oct, 2008
Answers
If in the ground you could make a plastic cloche, which will protect it against sligfht frosts, but you would be able to cover it with bubble plastic temporrarily iif hard frost was expected. Mine are potted and I brought them into plastic tunnel today. I dont advise moving a potted really large one , too blessed dangerous.
14 Oct, 2008
where do you live? i live on the west coast of pembrokeshire and have left mine outside for the last three years. but i take the side shoots off and take them into the greenhouse for insursnce purposes...
also i do try and plant them where they get protection from the north wind.
14 Oct, 2008
Here in northern Spain we get ferocious winters and there are agaves growing along the edge of one of the mountain roads. They are about 3ft high and have been there since I have known this region so, unless there are non-hardy types that I don't know about, I would say it will be OK.
15 Oct, 2008
Is your agave in the ground or in a pot.? and what part of the country do you live in, all these questions answered will help me give you an answer.
14 Oct, 2008