Heat in Germany - This is how your garden or balcony plants survive the hot temperatures
Created: 07/18/2022, 09:27
By: Linus Prien
Woman watering flowers © Rene Traut via www.imago-images.de
Plants can suffer from heat and die.
Tricks on how to take care of your garden are particularly important this summer.
Hamburg - In summer, plants can often suffer from high temperatures.
This summer, Germany has repeatedly experienced very hot days.
It is precisely then that it is important to take good care of your plants so that they can survive very high temperatures.
Luckily, there are a few ways to keep your garden green and vibrant even in summer.
Flowers in the heat: "Once chopped is watered three times"
Stefan Rust, botanist in the Hamburg Botanical Garden, shared some
tricks
with which you can protect your plants.
On the one hand, the rule applies: “Once chopped is poured three times.
Regularly loosening the soil surface helps to conserve water.
In this way, the moisture is not directed upwards, but stays at the roots.” In addition, you should use your rain barrel, as the water from the tap is too cold for some summer flowers.
In addition, it is advantageous to mulch your plants with two to three centimeters of fine lawn clippings, as this keeps the moisture longer.
Flowers in the heat: Plants have different water requirements
Sven Wachtmann from the Berlin State Association of Garden Friends uses a drip or bead hose for watering, as he reported to the
picture
.
"In this way, the water reaches the roots directly without evaporating first." The hose also draws attention to the different water requirements of plants: "With lawns, it is very large.
Better to let the grass grow long in the summer because the leaves then shade each other.
You can also let the lawn turn brown, because unlike other plants, it recovers after a dry phase.”
However, this is not the case with all plants: “It is different with hydrangeas or tomatoes and strawberries.
Plants that bear fruit need more water.
Roses, herbs and Mediterranean plants are drought-resistant.”