Several weeks ago I wrote a post called Cold facts on plant survival for Spring TX plants!! At the time we were preparing for some Arctic air and were looking at having several days in a row in the 20's. In this particular case the weather man got it right.
At that time I read an article in the Houston Chronicle about getting plants ready for the cold temperatures and realized I had been going at it all wrong. I was just covering with plastic. They recommended watering your plants good if it has not rained. After that you cover the plants with either fiber row covers, sheets or blankets. I had one N-sulate permeable fabric cover(the hardware stores were sold out of more) so I used sheets for the rest of the plants. For even extra protection I put the heavy plastic I was previously solely using over the cloth covers and secured them with rocks.
I covered a large percentage of our plants front and back but it was getting cold and I did not cover them all. The proof of how good this worked is in the pictures. This is a wild Iris often called Dietes Bicolor.
My husband asked shouldn't we cover t
his one and I didn't feel like scrounging for sheets and I told him I thought it would be okay as that wasn't the plant that I thought needed protection. That was a big mistake; I look at these plants and so regret that decision. If you look close at the almost dead plant there's a little green so it may come back. I can guarantee you it is not going to look like its neighbor though.
We are supposed to have cold temperatures coming in tomorrow again and you can bet I'm covering my plants. This time I went to the hardware store while the weather was in the 70's and bought two additional N'sulate permeable fabric covers.
We have lived in Spring 14 years and this is the coldest winter that I can remember. We normally have two seasons here summer and January. I'm ready for January to be over and to get on with summer. It has been an unusual year though so I would not be surprised if our winter doesn't continue in to February. You just have to love that global warming.
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