Preparing Your Garden For Winter Frost
If gardening is a part of your life then I am sure that you are well aware of the extra challenges you have to face once winter arrives not mattering where in the world you live in.
Plants physiology changes in such way starting from the tropics till the Arctic putting the gardener in a misery of thinking about all the possible ways how his or her plants can make it through this frost and chilly season.
The top most problem for the plants in winter is that their liquid present inside the cells freeze as soon as the temperature hits zero.
This way the cell gets damaged leaving no room for repairs and eventually dying in the end.
Basic studies and surveys show that mostly plants die and if not, their growth is highly affected and gets limited making the plants useless.
Now, in order to help you in such a situation, I would like to share some tips for preparing your garden for winter frost.
All plants require is just a diverse approach in the chilly season, for example if you have banana plants then planting them against a wall facing north would be great because they will get optimum amount of heat and at the same time they would be able to avoid winter frost as much as they possibly can.
Plants such as Cauliflowers or similar veggie plants belonging to the Brassica group contains high amount salt content in them that is why they are highly resistible against chilly temperatures.
They will bear the chilly temperature for most of the part.
But at the same time, Cauliflowers are not protected this way being a little weird and diverse to their species.
In this case, just get a small twine piece and tie the leaves together with it, this way the frost would not settle up over the leaves; remember to remove the twine when sunlight comes so the plant could enjoy some natural sunlight as well.
You can use old pots for covering up the plants through out the cold nights giving them protection from the frost but do not forget to remove them in the morning or else they won't get natural air which they need for their survival.
Lastly, you can change the location of the potted plants for the time being as well to safeguard your potted plants from winter frost.
Preparing your garden for winter frost can be a daunting task but trust me; if you put some efforts and think wisely then this won't be a problem for you at all.
Plants physiology changes in such way starting from the tropics till the Arctic putting the gardener in a misery of thinking about all the possible ways how his or her plants can make it through this frost and chilly season.
The top most problem for the plants in winter is that their liquid present inside the cells freeze as soon as the temperature hits zero.
This way the cell gets damaged leaving no room for repairs and eventually dying in the end.
Basic studies and surveys show that mostly plants die and if not, their growth is highly affected and gets limited making the plants useless.
Now, in order to help you in such a situation, I would like to share some tips for preparing your garden for winter frost.
All plants require is just a diverse approach in the chilly season, for example if you have banana plants then planting them against a wall facing north would be great because they will get optimum amount of heat and at the same time they would be able to avoid winter frost as much as they possibly can.
Plants such as Cauliflowers or similar veggie plants belonging to the Brassica group contains high amount salt content in them that is why they are highly resistible against chilly temperatures.
They will bear the chilly temperature for most of the part.
But at the same time, Cauliflowers are not protected this way being a little weird and diverse to their species.
In this case, just get a small twine piece and tie the leaves together with it, this way the frost would not settle up over the leaves; remember to remove the twine when sunlight comes so the plant could enjoy some natural sunlight as well.
You can use old pots for covering up the plants through out the cold nights giving them protection from the frost but do not forget to remove them in the morning or else they won't get natural air which they need for their survival.
Lastly, you can change the location of the potted plants for the time being as well to safeguard your potted plants from winter frost.
Preparing your garden for winter frost can be a daunting task but trust me; if you put some efforts and think wisely then this won't be a problem for you at all.
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