The gardeners living in zone of marginal agriculture annually should cover many plants subject to podmerzaniye for the winter. Sawdust - one of the available ukryvny mulching materials where sawmills work. But sawdust can both help, and to do much harm to plants.
In what do the main advantages of sawdust consist?
Sawdust - the crushed wood which is the good heat insulator cutting cold from the covered plants. Almost free of charge they are given by sawmills to persons interested as export or burning demand additional expenses from producers. They are easy and it is not difficult to transport couple of bags on the garden site. It is simple to work with them, it is only necessary to hill at first root zone of plants the soil and to zamulchirovat from above layer of sawdust. It happens enough for safe rewintering of plantings. It is possible to mulch any plants layer from 3-5 cm and above, up to 20-40 cm.
What should be known, applying sawdust to the winter shelter of plants?
Roots of plants do not stop the work and in winter time, just processes of activity at them slow down a little. The crushed fines of the crushed wood, unlike large shaving, incorporates moisture of the dropping-out precipitation quicker, and after freezing forms ice crust which does not provide full air circulation to roots and elevated part that can lead to air exchange violation.
In the spring such ice block from sawdust very slowly gets warm and long thaws that also breaks active ""prosypaniye"" from hibernation of the covered saplings. From above the sun heats, and roots are not ready to provide with power supply elevated part. Therefore it is necessary to destroy in addition such ice crusts and to exempt plants from ""captivity"".
How it is possible to apply sawdust?
If there is opportunity to use sawdust, then you should not refuse it. It is possible not only to scatter sawdust under plants, but also to use the method ""pillows"". For this purpose sawdust fills in polypropylene (sugar) bags, filling them half or on one third, ties and uses further for the shelter of roots of any plants. ""Pillow"" can also be stacked also on plants, for example, on the branches of raspberry, blackberry, grapes connected in bunches. And to stop penetration of precipitation in bag, from above dim film, roofing material or other improvised material. As option, fill sawdust in plastic bags at once. In the spring such mobile shelters can be removed at any time and to keep till the next autumn season.