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- Gardening in winter - tips for winter gardening
- Cut shrubs and trees - you should pay attention
- Tree painting protects against winter sun
- Put potted plants on a winter coat - that's how it works
- In case of frosting in the bed and pails pour - fight the drought stress
- Tips
Sensitive plants should be protected from frost
Gardening in winter - tips for winter gardening
If garden plants take their breather in winter, the gardener can not put his hands in his lap. On the contrary, important care work is on the program, as long as there is no chilling permafrost. What to do in the winter garden, you can find out here.
Cut shrubs and trees - you should pay attention
In winter garden and pruning shears are in continuous use to cut wood of all kinds in shape. Apart from spring-flowering ornamental shrubs and cut-sensitive rhododendrons, a wintry pruning promotes vitality and flowering. In order for the wintry shape and maintenance cut to succeed, please pay attention to the following tips:
The best shape and maintenance cut can not prevent snow break. From a height of 10 cm, the white splendor of shrubs, trees and hedges should be removed. At the latest when the branches bend under a thick blanket of snow, they should be freed from their load, so they do not break.
Tree painting protects against winter sun
If sunbeams strike tree trunks during severe frost, cracks in the bark are inevitable. Diseases and pests have only been waiting for this opportunity. With a special white paint prevent the fatal damage. Thanks to the bright color, sunrays are reflected. The bark heats up slower, so it does not break.
Put potted plants on a winter coat - that's how it works
In pot culture hardy perennials lose their frost tolerance considerably. The low substrate volume and the exposed position behind thin vessel walls make a root ball vulnerable to frost. So that potted plants survive the winter healthy and lively, the following protection effectively prevents:
With a pot diameter of less than 30 cm, all winter protection measures will go nowhere. Therefore please empty small tubs into the frost-free, bright winter quarters.
In case of frosting in the bed and pails pour - fight the drought stress
Winter plant dying is rarely due to frost and snow. Rather, dry stress is considered the most common cause of dead shrubs and woody plants after the winter time. Brilliant winter weather with blue skies, severe frost and lack of snow cover makes your plants thirst in the bed and tub. Primarily evergreen plants do not survive this exertion. Therefore, pour regularly during frosty weather in winter.
Tips
Have you decided on a living garden fence made of shrubs? Then between November and March is the right time for rootless shrubs. In contrast to container goods, bare root seedlings are significantly cheaper, which has a positive effect on the budget when designing a meter-long enclosure.