Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:
Hi, Everybody,

I have two small olive plants - each about a foot or so
high, in 10-litre (2.5 gal) buckets.

It is winter in my part of the world right now. We
don't get snow here, but there is often a light frost
in the early mornings.

Should I generally keep them indoors overnight? Or is
there some value to leaving them outside - maybe
acclimating them to the weather or something?

Thanks in advance...


Light frosts are no problem. I grew up next to an olive orchard in
Corning, California, a town that billed itself as Olive City and has an
olive painted on it's water tower. Winter temperatures down to the low
20's Fahrenheit were not unusual. Olives can take temps down to around
15F or -10C. You do realize that your olive plants are going to be
fairly big trees in a few years?

Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero