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Winter Damage: Is Your Garden At Risk?Read the article this discussion is about
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» Cottage_Garden - How do you protect your most tender plants? Cloche, row cover, cold frame, greenhouse, evergreen boughs.....?-- posted by Cottage_Garden » CarolWallace - House? I dig some up and bring 'em in. If they can go dorman, I put them in a cold room and let them go dormant. Theresr are crowding us out of the sunroom. Anything left outdoors can fend foritself.-- posted by CarolWallace » CarolWallace - OK, so I lied. There are a few things that I give outdoor winter protection to. For one winter I had a Davidia involuncrata and I carefully erected posts around it, and put up a shield of garbage bags to pretect it from the wind. And for their first couple years of life I used to lay pine boughs over the hellebores.Actually we mulch like crazy around here after the ground freezes - butmainly to replenish the sinking soil in the raised beds and to kill the grass that keeps sneaking into the side gardens trying to become a lawn again. -- posted by CarolWallace » Cottage_Garden - Yeah, well, I lied, too We put up extra anti-deer fence in the winter. Does that count?-- posted by Cottage_Garden » CarolWallace - If it works - yeah. I spent all that time protecting the davidia, and then when things warmed up in spring and I had to remove the plastic to keep things from overheating, the deer ate it.-- posted by CarolWallace » Cottage_Garden - I would expect plastic to overheat in winter sunlight, too. No problems?-- posted by Cottage_Garden » CarolWallace - No problems I hate the little tree insulated with leaves. It was allbidded out, and I was so proud of myself for getting it through the winter! Little leaves unfurled - and then I went out and found a twig-sized stump in its place.Actually, Ihave kind of a winter-protection problem right now. I have a purple leafed crab apple tree planted in a large square container so people have something to look at when they peer through your gate. It is not only too heavy t move, but of course the tree needs to experience winter - but winter with some kind ofprotection since the roots are not protected as they would be in the ground. My old stake and bag technique won't work, since it's sitting on brick and I have no place to put the stakes. And ideas? -- posted by CarolWallace » Cottage_Garden - Can you stack strawbales around it? If it's a big enough container it might be fine anyway, but you could pile leaves or sawdust or mulch around the container to insulate it. Maybe with a retaining wall of chicken wire or somesuch to keep it in place for the duration.How big is the container? -- posted by Cottage_Garden
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