What Should A Summer Resident Do In December?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

December is in the yard. The ancient Slavs always had an unambiguous attitude to December, as to a cold, gloomy, cold, full of winds and snow blizzards, low gray clouds month. That is why they called it, either the jelly month, or the lute, or the wind-winter. Summer residents, gardeners, leafing through paper albums and their photos in social networks, longingly remember that spring and their favorite summer cottage are still so far away. While a true summer resident will find something to his liking in winter. Not only at the dacha, but also at home

What can you do in the country in winter?

Yes, what can you not do! Visit the dacha allotment more often in the winter. And breathe fresh air, and take a walk, occupy yourself, and do a good deed for your suburban brainchild. And what you can do in the country in winter in December, we are now happy to advise you.

Brush off the snow. Falling snow in the country does not always cancel work with it. On the contrary, it is often even more troublesome. That is, not every snow cap and layer of snow needs to be preserved at the summer cottage.

Snow should be removed from the paths in the garden. Especially those that lead to the house. Otherwise, if you do not do this in especially snowy regions of our country, but on other weekends you simply will not get to the door of the country house.

Transfer the snow that you clean off from the paths to flower beds, to plants that require significant shelter in winter from freezing, to those parts of the garden where the snow cushion tends to melt and become thinner due to the sun.

But from trees, shrubs, on which there is too much snow, on the contrary, it needs to be shaken off. Especially if the snow is sticky, wet, with an ice crust. While in the city, notice - if there has been a heavy snowfall - immediately in the morning to the dacha, to be engaged in shaking off snow from garden trees and clearing it.

Cover the plants. If you did not do this or did not manage to do it before December due to the fact that November was relatively frosty, then proceed with such actions immediately. While there is no heavy snow cover, cover plants that do not tolerate winter chills. To do this, you need to use a non-woven material wrapped in several layers around plants, shrubs, perennials can be covered with foliage, sawdust. Now they will not be afraid of an accidental frost without a layer of snow.

Do not forget to add snow, if it has fallen, our flower beds, garden plantings before winter.

Take care of birds and exterminate rodents. We place feeders on garden trees for birds, but against rodents we lay sheets with glue, in a country house, in sheds, it is possible on the street, since this glue can withstand rather low temperatures without freezing.

Summer work … in the apartment

We plant bulbous. It's time to plant bulbous crops for distillation. You can plant onions in the ground to be with fresh herbs on the table by the New Year. At the end of autumn, bulbous flower garden crops are sold by summer residents for very little money. Buy and plant hyacinths, for example. Hold, if the owners of the seedlings have not done this, keep them in the refrigerator for a while, then transplant them into pots in the ground. Soon, you will have beautiful garden flowers on the windowsill, which will remind you that spring is very close and will delight you with their blooming appearance.

We are planning. There is time in December to reflect, to philosophize with oneself. After all, in the summer, and even more so in the autumn period, it is not at all up to that. There is no time to raise the head at summer cottage work, let alone plan the plantings and work for the next season.

Summarize the past season … What was done, planted correctly, and what should not be done next year. Make a list of those seeds and varieties of garden crops that you will need to grow in the new season. This means that you should take care of buying their seed in advance. It's time to order some of them in garden stores or in an online store, and plan some by the end of January, in February to plant seedlings at home.

Do not forget, in addition to plants, to think about the fact that you can improve your site, its landscape in the next summer season. To do this, look through the articles of our site in the required headings, study the magazines on landscape design, look through the catalogs of plants for a decorative flower garden. As you can see, even in December, a restless heart and soul, an inquisitive and inquisitive summer resident will always find something to do.