Mary-Jane
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Can I put my Aloe Vera plants in the polytunnel for winter?I've got a mass of Aloe Vera plants of all sizes stuffed into pots on my window sills and I'm running out of room!
I'd like to pot them all on but that will create 2 or 3 times the amount of space utilised. So if I pot them on now and keep them in the polytunnel with an extra layer of fleece over them, do you think they'll be okay over winter until the spring?
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Ian33568
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Most certainly - kept dry for most of the winter they will do fine away from frosts.
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Mary-Jane
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So is it direct frost, as opposed to cold that does for them Ian?
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sean
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Have you got an Aloe Vera attachment for your polytunnel hoover though?
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Ian33568
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We do not get frost here on the coast but we do get cold nights 1 degree in winter - my Aloes and cacti stay out all winter - we stop watering in October apart from when looking desperate and keep them dry under the terrace and they are fine without fleece - so a poly tunnel with fleece should be fine.
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Mary-Jane
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| sean wrote: | | Have you got an Aloe Vera attachment for your polytunnel hoover though? |
 Oh ha-ha...
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vickersdc
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Frost is lethal to them as they will go to mush, but if you can stay frost free and dry they should be ok.
Edit - BahamaMama posting 
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mochyn
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I'd keep a few indoors as a back-up. Polytunnels don't provide much frost protection (well, not here, anyway). They're only about 2 degrees C warmer than the outside, so if the temp. falls much below zero...
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