I don’t go quite as far as this couple has, but I think I’m in the running for a few steps below them. Last year, instead of putting my overwintering plants in the basement, I used every square inch of available space in my dining room to house the plants, since we weren’t having a large number of guests at the holidays. I figured that I might take better care of the plants if they were nearer me during my usual day, and I was right. I was more successful this past year than the last, though I did lose a couple of plants. Imagine a dining room table filled to capacity with your garden loves, and then every foot of floor space for the plants that didn’t fit on the table. Oh, and grow light cords to trip on!
Among my favorites that were newly successful this past year are heliotrope, and a curcumin ginger plant. Many have been going on 5 or 6 years of overwintering, but these two were ones that I succeeded with on my first try.
I AM impressed. Everything I’ve tried to winter over in the past has been in the house, so that I could grieve at their passing, one by one. The only thing that has survived has been a huge rosemary plant, and even IT lost 1/5 of its branches.
the peppers survived but died when I put them in the "hot" house thinking the weather would be okay in April but we got a bad frost....down went the peppers...
but this year, I am going to overwinter several plants...