Over the last week , we ’ve been blessed with glorious spring weather condition . Sunshine and temperature in the mellow teen and twenty ( ºC ) have , quite literally , made the garden heyday . It ’s been a delight to be outside , getting jobs done and feeling the warmth on our backrest , but do n’t have a mild spell lull you into a false sense of security , there ’s still every chance that temperature will plummet again . Ignored , or not properly prepared for , the outcome could be devastation for your precious works . The good intelligence is that it ’s not at all difficult to protect them .
Gardeners of old would not have chanced anything to luck , keeping freeze - sensitive works in a glasshouse or conservatory until the final stage of May or early June when all hazard of frost had authorise . These days climate change has tended to make us a lot more confident of bring Book of Job forward ; we adhere less to the established rules , sometimes throwing care to the wind . Garden inwardness do not help the novice gardener by offering stamp plant life , such as half - intrepid annual , extremely early in the yr when they still require one or two month indoors before establish out . This is shameful profiteering in my opinion . Such temptations diminish the confidence of inexperienced gardener , who should be helped towards making good choices rather than led a brisk dance .
Here in Broadstairs , by the ocean , where spring is ordinarily mild , I have often bring tender plants out into the fresh air by early April . This year is no exception . However , when a full point of stale conditions is prefigure , I must be on standby to put my plans into reverse . Here are some of my top steer for subsist a spring cold snap with your garden unscathed .
A spring stale ginger nut is unlikely to last for long . Most measure are plainly a sensible precaution and a small monetary value to yield for maintain your garden on track for the yr . If the worst occur and seedling or plants are lost to Jack Frost , there is still copious fourth dimension to resow , replant and broadly hitch up . Long endure damage as a result of a spring moth-eaten is unusual , unless the plant concerned are very warm , in which vitrine they could be kill in a flash . Avoid that situation by being patient , studying the weather forecast and erring on the side of caution . If ever there was a parallel with Aesop ’s fable ‘ The Tortoise and The Hare ’ , it is this . dull and unbendable wins the backwash . TFG .
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Posted by The Frustrated Gardener
