Protect your plants from ‘frostbite’
With the cold front approaching, plant lovers need to protect their collection of flora.
Pierrette Coetzee, from a nursery in Springs, gave a few useful tips on how residents can protect their plants.
“It will be best to cover the plant with what is called ‘frost-cover’,” she says.
If residents have indoor plants outside, taking them inside would prevent them from being damaged.
“All the young plants that are two years or younger, definitely needs to be covered by a frost-cover as they probably will not survive.”
She adds that plants which are not winter plants and are outside, also need to be covered.
“Or else you can prune the plants and cut off the black frost on the branches at the end of August or beginning of September,” says Coetzee.
She concluded by saying that in the beginning of September, residents can start giving the plants nutrition to grow again.
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