Winterizing the Tropical Fruit Trees
We had two hard frosts on the homestead and our tropical plants did not do well at all. So today I am going to show you how we winterized the papaya tree.
Starting of we cut the tree down to about 1 foot. it was interesting how easy it was to cut down. it also had a hollow center. our cows loved it to
Here is the tree from further away with a pepper cage around it. 
After that I raked up some pine needles an filled up the cage, compacted it down and filled it up again, repeated until no more pine needles would fit. 
The beans( behind the cage ) also died during the frost.
To finish off the project, I found an old piece of vinyl wrap laying around. I double folded this, put it over the top of the cage and then tied it to the cage with a string.
This is how we also plan on winterizing our banana tree.
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Great stuff. We try to grow many tropical trees down here with varying degrees of success. Ill follow your progress closely..
Have you seen the recent post by @mericanhomestead ? He just winterized his banana tree. https://steemit.com/homesteading/@mericanhomestead/winterizing-your-banana-plants-on-the-homestead
Will be interesting to see how your banana does.
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STOPI've never seen that technique for winterizing plants. I'll have to remember that in the future.
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