Do you want to take care of your garden in winter? How can you prepare it for spring? I’m sure you’ve asked yourself these questions when cold temperatures arrive and cause your trees and plants to be exposed to frost and snow. To help you protect your garden, use these tips. They will be very useful to you.
1. Use greenhouses Greenhouses
protect the most delicate and sensitive plants from the low temperatures of winter. You can choose between greenhouses made of aluminum, wood or glass. Although, I’m sure the ones you’ve always seen are the plastic ones because they’re the cheapest for your garden!
2. Cover plants and flowers: In case you don’t think it’s convenient to use a greenhouse in your garden, you can cover those plants or flowers that need it with some plastic or tarpaulin.
In this way, they will be protected from snow and low temperatures. It’s another option if you don’t want to use greenhouses or don’t need them.
3. Place the plants close to the wall If you have potted plants or flowers in your garden, it’s a good idea to stick them as much as possible to the wall.
of your house, at least during the winter. This way, they won’t be as exposed to the cold. Just don’t place them near an outdoor stove. Extreme temperatures are not good for them.
4. Decrease the frequency of watering A fundamental point to take care of your garden in winter is to reduce the frequency of watering
at this time of year. The reason? During this season the plants hibernate, so they don’t need as much care. In addition, the water could freeze, which would be a real problem!
5. Use fertilizer During the winter, you can use fertilizer.
in your garden to make it ready for spring. To do this, during this season, don’t forget to stir a little soil in all the areas you consider convenient and put organic fertilizer. This way, your garden will be splendid for spring.
6. Plant deciduous
trees Winter is an excellent season to plant new trees. But, not all of them are suitable, so we recommend that you choose those that have deciduous leaves such as rose bushes. When spring arrives, you will be able to see the roses bloom and your garden begins to regain all its color.
7. Line the pots
Although it may not seem like it, the plants and flowers you have in pots in the garden suffer more in winter. For this reason, you should line the pots. How? Use bubble wrap, straw, or any other material you have on hand that can protect them. This will keep your plants and flowers healthy.
8. Apply winter
oil Winter oil is an amazing product meant to protect leafless branches and the trunks of deciduous trees. Well, this oil will prevent these trees from developing fungus or some other type of bug from harming them. Your garden will be better than ever when spring arrives!
9. Always organic fertiliser
Although we talked about fertiliser before, we want to stress how important it is for your garden that it is organic, especially during the winter. Choose fertilizer that has been made with mulch or worm hummus, for example. There are also some with algae (Bokashi Algae) that tend to work very well.
10. Prune deciduous trees and shrubs
In winter, you can take advantage of and prune the trees and shrubs in your garden, as long as they are deciduous. Remember that the cuts must be clean. Also, don’t forget that if there are frequent frosts in the area where you live, it is better to postpone pruning until February or March, the months in which we are already in.