{"id":1208,"date":"2022-01-29T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2022-01-29T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:54:14","slug":"spring-too-cool-a-persistent-cold-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/gardening\/weather-lesson\/spring-too-cool-a-persistent-cold-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring too cool: a persistent cold in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What to do in the&nbsp;garden in spring with this persistent cold?&nbsp;Here is how to further protect the garden and take advantage of this prolonged winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the beginning of April, the temperature still resembles that of March: spring has started but the vegetation is a good month late, despite the forsythias which show small pink buds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The&nbsp;fruit trees<\/strong>&nbsp;(&nbsp;apple&nbsp;,&nbsp;pear&nbsp;, &#8230;) and trees nuclei are not yet in bloom.&nbsp;This protects them from a possible&nbsp;late refreezing, which would risk destroying the fruit harvest&nbsp;(what we experienced in March 2012, the trees flowering very early).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is still possible to prune&nbsp;<strong>summer flowering shrubs<\/strong>&nbsp;(such as&nbsp;roses&nbsp;) because nothing beats the \u201clate\u201d cut in March.&nbsp;They can start again on the axillary buds even if they have experienced small drops of jelly on the tips of the leaves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The&nbsp;marcescent foliage<\/strong>&nbsp;(arbor,\u2026) has retained its leaves roasted by winter and should begin to lose them soon, a sign that spring is coming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is not too late to extend the&nbsp;<strong>planting of trees or shrubs with bare roots<\/strong>&nbsp;(&nbsp;blackcurrant&nbsp;,&nbsp;currants&nbsp;, etc.) if we take maximum precautions (they must not be already budding).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>biennial plants<\/strong>&nbsp;(&nbsp;thoughts&nbsp;,&nbsp;forget me not,&nbsp;daisies,&nbsp;carnations&nbsp;, &#8230;) do not fear the cold.&nbsp;They can be planted to decorate a balcony that is lacking in color, for example.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>As for the vegetable garden<\/strong>&nbsp;: nothing prevents you from planting&nbsp;cabbages&nbsp;,&nbsp;lettuce,&nbsp;leeks,&nbsp;or even&nbsp;radishes&nbsp;in the vegetable garden.&nbsp;You just need to protect them&nbsp;with a wintering veil&nbsp;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the other hand, you have to wait for the weather to be better before putting the&nbsp;<strong>frost-free plants<\/strong>&nbsp;(&nbsp;tomatoes,&nbsp;cucurbits&nbsp;, etc.) outside, even under shelter.&nbsp;They can still be grown in the heat, in a&nbsp;greenhouse&nbsp;, on a&nbsp;veranda&nbsp;, or even behind a bay window at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do in the&nbsp;garden in spring with this persistent cold?&nbsp;Here is how to further protect the garden and take advantage of this prolonged winter. At the beginning of April, the temperature still resembles that of March: spring has started but the vegetation is a good month late, despite the forsythias which show small pink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-lesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}