Learn how to keep chrysanthemum in winter

Lush chrysanthemums make any yard or flower garden inexpressibly cozy and elegant. Knowing this, we buy them in large numbers, because the temptation to make your home more beautiful is so difficult to resist ...

Unfortunately, they bloom not so long, but how to keep chrysanthemum in winter, often no one knows. Many try to find out the secrets of cultivation from sellers, but often they either do not want to share such valuable information, or they do not know much about it ...

We save in the cellar!

The easiest way to store the faded plants in the cellar. Before the onset of a persistent frost, they are dug along with a clod of earth and transferred to "winter apartments". It is best to lay them on the earthen floor, trying to put the bushes as close as possible to each other.

In this case, the conditions are optimal, since the root system will receive the necessary amount of moisture from the floor. The temperature of the air in the room should not exceed four degrees of heat.

Plants are in a kind of anabiosis, and therefore their growth completely stops. It is much worse when the temperature is higher than normal: in this case, the young growth among the winter starts to grow, draining the bush.

But how to keep chrysanthemum in winter, if you do not have a cellar?

Trenches

The second method provides for their preservation in special trenches. To do this, you need to dig a ditch depth and width of 0.7 m. The length is chosen according to the number of bushes. They are excavated from the beds, and then densely laid in a ditch, filling the gaps between the roots of the soil mixture.

Having learned how to keep chrysanthemum in winter, you need to prepare in advance the required amount of covering material. Suitable old slate, roofing material and even pieces of tin. Before the onset of the first frost chrysanthemums are stored in clear form.

Note that with the very first frosts, bushes do not need to be sheltered: the frost will destroy most of the pathogenic fungi. But as soon as the frosts become strong and permanent, the trenches are covered with prepared materials. Peat, dry leaves or sawdust are placed on top. Over this "sandwich", the layer of which should be not less than 50 cm, wrap polyethylene film.

And how to keep the chrysanthemum in the winter, if you do not have time to mess with the ditches?

Wintering in the open ground

To do this, you need to prepare in advance a lot of dry fallen leaves. After the onset of stable frosts, a layer of faded (30-50 cm) is covered by faded bushes. The leaves are covered with polyethylene film, which should be safely secured. If the flower bed is very large and you do not have such a quantity of polyethylene, you can cover the leaves with spruce birch.

In general, all experienced gardeners, talking about how to keep chrysanthemums in the winter, mention cover and open ways. If there are no cold winters in your region, there is no need to invent something. The maximum that can be done is to cover the weakest plants with a small layer of dry leaves.

In the spring (after frosts), the foliage is removed, and to protect from sudden night frosts, it is better to throw thick polyethylene film.

Here's how to keep chrysanthemums even in the coldest time of the year!