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Originally Posted by cherokee_greg
what should i do ?
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You are going to need to protect it over winter if you want to recover any of the fruit anyway, so may as well slap something together that'll stand up to some abuse from those nasty winds we get around here.
Luckily, being a dwarf, the size makes it doable.
To make a little mini-enclosure, I'd use some concrete reinforcing mesh [6"x6"] & roll it in a cylinder, wrap the critter with clear plastic & button up at night or during temps that get sub 40°.
Letting them stay tented in/buttoned up during the daytime might produce temps hot enough to make them "medium rare".
Hammer a couple stakes into the dirt, tie off on the mesh, & it'll stay put in the 60+MPH wing gusts coming up.
Adding a lightbulb or two, preferably on a thermostat, will keep things above freezing.
If there are more critters you want to protect then it's "grünhauszeit" with a larger structure made from PVC, duct tape & plastic.
I often threaten to tent over our entire back yard with my ebay auction income for seeds that I peddle.
You can put together a frame fairly cheap, even if you have to buy everything at retail.
If you get on "http://www.freecycle.org/" you should be able to score scrap PVC for free.