What to do if there is frost at the dacha, but no snow: how to save wintering plants
There is nothing worse than a winter with little snow and frequent temperature fluctuations. All wintering crops suffer from this, even frost-resistant ones.
It is advisable to anticipate such weather conditions in advance. Here is how to help the garden if it suddenly turns out that the rest of the winter promises to be frosty and almost snowless.
Fruit trees will survive temperatures down to -35-40 degrees Celsius. But the closer the roots are to the soil surface, the less frost-resistant they are. For example, if there is no snow, then at -16 degrees Celsius the soil can freeze to a depth of up to 40 cm.
How to save plants
1. Any shelter, even made from the most ordinary soil, peat or shelters, will help.
2. Basic hilling will help, but it is important that the layer of loose soil is 10-15 cm high. This way you can save hydrangea, clematis, peonies, etc. bushes, as well as berry bushes.
3. You can protect the root collar of the bushes by covering it with coarse sand and then with soil.
4. Mulch made from peat, humus or compost, leaves or sawdust will do. Any plants can be mulched, but perennials are the first.
5. Grapes, actinidia and clematis should be removed from the support, placed on a substrate and covered with spruce branches.
6. Heat-loving crops are bent to the ground before the onset of frost, then the soil around the bushes and roots is hilled or mulched.
If you can't bend the plant down, you'll have to build a frame for a dry shelter.
However, gardeners recommend that at such times you pay primary attention to the roots, and then to the above-ground part.
