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Originally Posted by lewdog
How cold are your winters? I get frost damage, even with covering, on our hibiscus. I wait until it's warmer and then remove the damaged parts. They come back nicely but many people here don't cover theirs and lose them during the winters here. Anything under 35 at night and they don't do so well.
Fruit trees are awesome. I am finding that lime trees here are pretty sensitive and need quite a bit of baby sitting/work. Mine has had some leaf curling recently that I can't figure out. Love the variety of fruit trees you have. Do you have the deer and birds eating them constantly?
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I had some of those pest issues last year, couldn't find a single spray that would touch a black beatle that was feasting on all of the fruit tree leaves. I ended up smashing them with my fingers, only thing I could come up with. The leaves were full of holes.
It got as low as 9 this winter, but we really only had two cold weeks. Maybe I should pot them and bring them in for the winter, but so far the winter hasn't been the issue.
Deer are the main problem, they cleaned some of the rose bushes on a regular basis last year so I moved them on the inside of the fence in the back yard. They haven't bothered the roses along the front of the house for some reason.
Deer killed a beautiful peach tree this winter, ate the bark all the way around it.
The guy from the extension service told me to hang fishing line down off of a few of the branches. He said when they touched it, it would spook them and they would run off. So far it has worked, I guess. I don't see how that would work on the Hibiscus though.
I also have a gross method, saving urine in a gallon jug and pouring it around the base of the trees.
Our blueberry bush is on it's second year and now has some blueberries on it. I imagine the birds will remove them for us.