So overwinter your olive tree without damage

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• So overwinter your olive tree without damage
• Olives need hibernation
• Winter outside the olive tree
• Young trees are more sensitive
• Tips & Tricks

So overwinter your olive tree without damage

The olive as a Mediterranean plant is not used to the German winter. Long periods of frost with sometimes deep frosts, snowfall and long-lasting darkness are causing the olive tree. But wintering outdoors is possible with the right winter protection.

Early article

Olives need hibernation

Although olives are not necessarily frost hardy and freeze in a Central European winter climate very quickly, but they are still relatively robust in low temperatures. Temperatures around the freezing point, even frost, are known by the plants from their Mediterranean homeland - and they are also needed to winter over species. Olive trees should

hibernate. If this does not happen, the olive tree can not start properly in the next growing season, also it is increasingly by pests such. B. scale insects are attacked.

Winter outside the olive tree

If possible, keep olives in a bucket so that the plant remains transportable and can thus be better transported to a more suitable location. When it is not extremely cold, the tree should remain outdoors, optimally located in a sheltered place such as a heat-emitting house wall. Think of the appropriate winter protection in time

Young trees are more sensitive

On the other hand, young olives should be brought into the house better; Do not let them overwinter in the heated living room, but in a bright and cool place. Here, the (dark) basement is rather less suitable, little or not heated stairwell or bedroom, however, already. Older trees, on the other hand, are more robust and can stay outdoors longer.

Tips & Tricks

Do not forget to water your olive tree! Although the tree needs much less water now than in the growing season, it dries up completely without water.