Clean-up time
If we have not done it before, it is worth starting to clean up the garden now. It is not too cold and snow has fallen, so we can trim and remove the dried-up parts of perennials and grasses.Leave some seeds to decorate the winter garden, and throw the rest on the compost.
We burn sick parts to destroy pathogenic spores.We continue to rake fallen leaves.They cannot stay on the lawn because they are the source of grass rot.
We cover the plants
After the first strong frosts, when the ground is slightly cold, we start covering the frost-sensitive plants.We use, for example, winter agrotextile, straw mats, cardboard, newspapers, soil, bark, conifer twigs.
We especially protect young plants planted in autumn, bulbs, biennials, roses, laurels, genera, heathers, heathers, as well as garden hydrangeas.We also cover containers in which plants grow permanently.Place them on polystyrene or other material insulating the container from cold concrete.
We're still planting
Lily of the valley is the only perennial that can tolerate such late planting.Of course, we do this before the frost sets in.We also plant shrubs and trees from the so-called bare root.
We are still sowing
We can still plant some perennials whose seeds need to be frozen, such as primroses, flower beds, hellebore and violets.
Water the evergreen shrub
Sometimes autumn is long and dry. In such a case, evergreen shrubs, both deciduous and coniferous, should be watered, because they must obtain water before the frost comes.When the ground is frosty, it will be too late and during the sunny winter days the plants will quickly lose a small amount of water as a result of the evaporation process.
Then it comes to the so-called physiological drought which causes the plants to dry out. Plants growing in pots are particularly exposed to this phenomenon.
