Cover your plants to protect them from frost damage during freezer temperatures. If you put the cloth on the floor, you can catch the heat.
With the temperatures expected this week, it is crucial to protect your plants from frost damage. Cover delicately plants with frost cloths, old blankets or sack linen and make sure that the material reaches the floor to catch the heat. Use the inserts for additional insulation to prevent the direct touch of leaves.
Mulch around the base of the plants hard around the earth and the water thoroughly keep the water before freezing: moist soil keeps warmth better than dry soil.
If possible, bring potted plants inside or into a garage. Wrap the suitcases with sack lines for fruit trees and sensitive shrubs to offer additional protection. When the sun comes out and the temperatures rise above freezing point, remove the covers so that the sunlight can reach the plants and prevent overheating.
Essential tips for the garden garden in spring
Test your floor– Check the pH value and the nutrient levels to determine all the necessary changes.
Support climbing plants– Give grids, inserts or cages for tomatoes, cucumbers and beans to promote upward growth and prevent pests and diseases.
Water with care– Most vegetables, including tomatoes, need about one inch water per week. Use a soaker hose and cover it with a lot of mulch to get moisture.
Accompanying planting– Herbs and vegetables grow together to put on useful insects and hold pests.
Keep a garden journal– Plant dates and locations as future reference. A simple card can also be helpful.
Label your plants– Pop sicules are great, inexpensive markers.
Plan bed widths for easy access– If you conveniently reach the center of your garden bed from both sides to cut, weed and harvest.
Know when you harvest– Mature Jalapeños have a shiny appearance; Potatoes are ready when leaves are brown; Sellerie is best with 12 to 15 inches.
Try something new– Experiment with a plant or a vegetable that you have not grown before!
Understand dige tomatoes– These varieties grow at a fixed height, produce fruits and then drop in a short time. Perfect for small gardens or container plants.
Harvest herbs in top taste— Pick Rosemary and other herbs the morning after drying the dew, but in front of the heat of the day, for the best taste.
Natural fire engine control– Mix the same parts of borax and sugar and sprinkle them slightly near the hill openings to put on and eliminate ants.
Tailors for healthier plants– Lower leaves touch the soil to prevent diseases and the thin dense leaves to improve the air flow.
Use vinegar as a natural herbicide– Es 20 percent vinegar directly on undesirable weeds in entrances or sidewalks. Be careful: it kills all the plants that touched it!
Optimize garden layout– Plant extensive plants such as melons in garden corners to save space.
Check grasshoppers with flour-Toss all purposes or even rising flour over areas affected with grasshoppers in the early morning when dew is heavy. Repeat in 2-3 weeks as required.
Thin carotta bouquets-Performing true leaves, spatial plants 2-3 inches apart to achieve optimal root development.
Provision of advantageous nematodes– These microscopic “soil marines” help to control fleas, fire ants, trub worms, termites and cockroaches.
Seasoning planting for the continuous harvest– Plant in intervals to avoid harvesting everything at once. Example: Sau Cantaloupe seed every 4-5 days or plant half of your tomatoes for a week and the rest in the next.
Harvest small and often– Vegetables, when they are young and tender, improve the taste, increase production and make it easier to harvest on your back.
See you next time. Keep your souls and soles in your garden! Remember the real master gardener: Jesus said: “I am the vine; My father is the gardener. “John 15: 1
“In the Garden” is written by the father-daughter garden team Bill and Martelle Ludecke. If you have garden questions, contact Martelle under 512-769-3179 or luedeckephotography@gmail.com or invoice at Bill@texasland.net.