A gentle garden lady - chrysanthemum - pleases with bright and magnificent flowering in autumn. A beautiful plant, meanwhile, is tender and vulnerable, especially to winter frosts. That's why in autumn it should be prepared for the cold, so that in the spring you can not find a completely frozen flower. So, we'll talk about how to keep chrysanthemums in the winter.
How to prepare chrysanthemums for winter?
Option one
This method is suitable for those regions where winters are relatively warm: mostly rainy or with mild frosts. It consists in hiding the chrysanthemums for winter with a protective "cap". Such protection can consist of a lower earthen or peat layer and an upper straw composed of sawdust, spruce branches or fallen leaves. In this case, the lower layer of each chrysanthemum bush should reach a height of 20 cm, and the upper one should be 15 cm. If we talk about whether to chrysanthemums for winter, we recommend that it be done before the shelter at the time when the first frosts reach -1-3 degrees. Carefully, the garden pruner cut off the stems, there are only "penechki" with a length of 5 cm.
Option Two
The method described above, unfortunately, is not suitable for those regions where winters are rather severe. Most likely, the frost penetrates through the shelter and the layer of the earth, and the plants will die. It seems to be nothing to worry about - you can buy seed in spring. But if you have rare varieties in the flower garden? If you are thinking about whether to dig for winter chrysanthemums, then this is really the best way.
The best time for digging out bushes is the appearance of the first frosts. It is important that the land does not have time to freeze. The bush is excavated together with an earthen lump and placed in a dark vault (cellar, cellar) where the air temperature is not much above the zero mark of the thermometer.
If we talk about caring for chrysanthemums in winter, then it is completely unnecessary if there is a sufficient level of humidity in the cellar or cellar where the dug roots are stored. Until spring, the plants calmly overwinter.
It's another matter if it's dry in a room where plants spend the cold season. In this case, the withdrawal is reduced to a moderate irrigation of the earth coma. Watering is necessary for the whole time of wintering chrysanthemums no more than once or twice.