Preparing for frost: How to protect your plants in the autumn cold?
As the weather turns cooler, time to prepare your plants for the winter months. At this time of year, we can do a lot to protect our plants from frost and keep them healthy by taking good care of them. A Danuba Garden with products we can strengthen the natural defences of our plants, making them more resistant to cold weather.
Why is frost protection important?
The cold, frosty season can weaken our plants if they are not properly prepared. Biostimulants and foliar fertilisers used in the autumn-winter months can help our plants to grow healthily, support the strengthening of cell structure and increase their resistance to frost.
Effectively against frost: how can biostimulant foliar fertilizers help?
VIDEO: Danuba Garden products allow the plant's juices to thicken, which helps plants resist frost. This technique increases the plant's resistance to frost by 2-3 degrees, making it more likely to survive the winter cold.
Nutrients for natural frost protection
Just like we use antifreeze in the car, we can also help our plants with nutrients that increase their resistance to frost. These include:
- Potassium: Helps plants to use water optimally and maintain healthy turgor pressure in cells. Key for the production of carbohydrates and enzymes.
- Boro: Without it, cell wall strength and sugar transport efficiency are reduced. Essential for flowering!
- Zinc: An essential component of many enzymes. Its deficiency prevents the production of sugars, proteins and chlorophyll.
- Phosphorus: Promotes root formation and flowering and increases stem strength.
- Calcium: Increases the resistance of cell walls and is involved in plant signalling. It is a building block for many enzymes.
- Magnesium: The central component of chlorophyll. It regulates the water balance of the plant and helps the uptake of phosphorus.
In addition, biostimulants help plants to be more resistant to extreme weather conditions. They stimulate plant metabolism, increase nutrient uptake and improve water retention.
These benefits are provided by biostimulants:
- They support the strengthening of cells
- They help to increase frost resistance
- Stimulate natural defence mechanisms
How to ensure a harmonious nutrient supply?
It is important not to try to protect the plant with just one nutrient, but with a harmonious balance of them. Danuba Garden products are rich in these essential elements, so they can provide the nutrients our plants need for frost protection.
What has so many nutrients in an absorbable form and in a harmonious ratio?
If we call on nature, the solution is seaweed products, which contain the exact proportion of nutrients, plant hormones, enzymes and vitamins that the plant needs. In the Danuba Garden portfolio, this is Asco Alga and the Kelpak.
If you are looking for foliar fertilizer, this is the DanuVital Bio+, which not only contains 10 nutrients, but in a similar proportion to plant juices. It can also be used in organic farming! If you're looking for more than just a foliar fertilizer, you can opt for Nutrino Turbo+ biostimulant, which also contains the 10 most important nutrients, plus biostimulants to reduce nutrient uptake and stress!
