Reliable and easy cover perennials without covering material

Welcome channel readers "Secrets of the garden. Cottage, flowers! " The end of autumn - time to take care of the shelter of perennial flowers in the garden for the winter. This measure, which need to be given very little attention. But the chances that the plant will survive the cold winter without damage and will smell the next year significantly increased!

Heat-loving plants (Such as roses and clematis most) must be protected from low temperatures, otherwise there is a risk that in the spring you were missing part of its flower collection.

even relatively hardy plants (Chrysanthemum, phlox, peony and our other pets) may die because of the cold: extreme cold, lack of adequate thickness of the snow cover, alternating plus and minus temperatures - all this increases the risk of damage to ornamental plants and can even lead to its death.

How to cover: robust, but simple way

Most current recommendations found farewell to the use of special materials such as spandbob. The method is good, but there are great option to do without him.

I propose a plan of action:

• Trim the plants for the winter, sprinkle compost or humus.

• top do cover frame. In addition to the arcs, we can use the materials at hand: two bricks + plywood, an old plastic bucket, boxes. In the bucket I recommend to make a couple of holes for ventilation - this will eliminate the risk of dangerous rot. Iron buckets is not recommended, because the metal is rapidly cooled and retains cold. It can play a cruel joke!

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• On top of the frame snapped opavshuyu autumn leaves. This is a great and free covering material, the main advantage of which is multi-layered. Between the leaves will be the air cushion generating heat and does not allow the total freezing.

Important! By the way, leaf litter can be replaced by other vegetable and available materials. For example, cut the green part of the plant. I still like the version with a straw. But there is one big "but": you need to be sure that the straw without seeds. Otherwise treat dry attract rodents portion of actions which can suffer cultural and landing.

• The final stage - spruce branches, twigs of coniferous trees. It is a very controversial material for protection of plants against frost, because of its use goes around a lot of misconceptions. By the way, most of the fresh, refer to the article on our channel, you can read if you want to: Spruce branches for shelter for the winter: How dangerous and how to do
  In our case, spruce branches is in place and has a role in forces: delays snow creates additional obstacles to the severe frosts. Fine!

If the winter was cold and snowless, armed with shovels and distribute the top of more snow. A layer of about 10-15 cm would be reliable shelter. I wish that your plants in the garden have survived the winter without damage!

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