For those of you that grow plants on your porch what do you do when winter hits?

@Hannihar I'm sure it's different all over our country. The US is so big that what works for me down in the southeast may not work for someone who lives in the northwest. They might have to do something completely different with their patio plants!

@moffittjc Thanks Jeff and you are probably right on that.

Jeff, thanks so much for explaining. I always wondered what people did.

@Hannihar @TheHorse would know best as he has plants on his balcony.

@just4him Thanks Valerie, The Horse, do you have a big balcony and is it open or closed? Do you put something on your plants in winter or bring them inside?

I don't know Valerie. I have been curious about that.

@Hannihar Oh. Yes, that would definitely kill a cactus. I can't feel "at home" if I do not have lots of plants around me, Hanni. My mother always kept the windows full of plants year round when I was a child. My dad always had two large gardens every year, too. My dining room has become a greenhouse. We can't even sit at our dining room table because it is covered in plants. I also have many different yard plants, too. I have some that aren't supposed to be able to be grown where I live. They are all healthy and beautiful! (I wrote a discussion about my yard plants a year or two ago, if you are interested.)

@DaddyEvil DE, You grew up with the beauty all around you and I never grew up with plants and then there are people that are surrounded with animals around them and cannot live without them.

I overwatered it. I am not good with plants. I like to look at them but really not have them.

@Hannihar How cold does it get in Jerusalem on Winter nights?

The Horse, thanks. I am just not good with plants. I live in Jerusalem and in the summer it was basically a dry climate but now it seems more humid to me. Winter here is cold both inside and outside.

@TheHorse I am not usually outside other than my porch at night so it is chilly but not that cold. It is just that here in winter for example a place I went to learn Hebrew had only one heater for everyone. If you sat in the back you got cold and could get sick and I did. Heaters help especially in the front but not in the back. I have not put the radiator on yet, but, I do not have the windows open in winter. It is both cold inside and out here in the winter. This is during the day and at night. It is no where near with winters in Minneapolis, but, there I had great heating in the winter and had to open the winter at times because it was too hot inside. Here I need to keep the windows closed and as warm as I can. We are the opposite in degrees here. If you are farenheight we are celcius. So far we are still experiencing nice days. Around December to April it gets cold and I put layers on and am still cold. Sorry, can't help more than that right now.

Florida is pretty "temperate," like Israel and Coastal California, I think.

Thanks Dianne.

Judy, is that something like a green house?

@Hannihar Yes, I think it would be same thing. In Australia, you need them over the summer to keep the more delicate pot plants out of the direct sunlight.

@JudyEv We have them here too. As a matter of fact the building next door on one of the floors they have a closed in porch.