HOME & GARDEN
Safeguard Your Garden
From Hailstorms
By: Joseph Harper
You might have a lovely garden that you put your heart in, but with summer comes unpredictable
weather. We all know Colorado Springs is no stranger to hail storms. All your hard work can be gone
within minutes and there isn’t anything that can be done to stop the weather from happening, and
many gardens have been ruined as a result.
If you think about it, if
there’s no rain, you would
be limited to what you
can grow. Nevertheless
it could be demoralizing
to put all of your effort
in a garden only to have
it wiped out by a violent
hailstorm. You might enjoy having it rain at first since
you don’t have to go out of your way to water the
plants yourself. This is all fine and dandy until the water dropping from the sky turns to ice. It is a sense
of dread, especially if you have gone through having
your garden destroyed by a ten-minute hailstorm.
The only solution in your case would be to take measures to protect your garden from such a storm. The
first option is to set up a wire mesh screen that you
can implement to cover the garden when it rains. It
will instantly protect your garden, if it turns to hail,
and either way the water will drip through the screen
onto your plants. This isn’t a fix for everyone, as it is
not easy to build, and will cost some money. If you
have never been hit with a hailstorm, you can do
something similar to this.
When your garden has already been wiped out, you
might be searching for a way to revive your garden.
There isn’t very much you can try except to be deliberate and patient in caring for your plants. You won’t
know how well your plants will make it through after
a bad hailstorm. Make sure you have them covered
if more rain or wind is expected, since this is a brittle
stage. If you choose to have a garden, you will need
to know how frequent hailstorms are in your area. For
this reason, you ought to have an emergency strategy
to protect your plants. No matter if it rarely occurs,
you should have a strategy set up.
It merely requires one hailstorm to destroy all the
work you put in. It’s important to take preemptive
measures so that the worst is actually avoided. Considering the work you put into your gardening, you
wouldn’t want it to go to waste.
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