There’s a nightmare scenario among gardeners: you spend hundreds of hours ensuring your plants are happy, healthy, and growing strong, only for your work to be usurped by an unexpected drop in temperature.
Should You Water Your Plants in Winter?
21.12.2023 - 20:51 / finegardening.com
Those of us who have spent a few years (or more) in the American West know that winter here doesn’t look like winter in much of the country. As far as I’m concerned, this is a good thing; I don’t enjoy days of gray skies and persistent snow cover. Our woody landscape plants, however, would say otherwise.
Particularly true for lower elevation and intermountain portions of the West, regular sunny days, wind, and a lack of snow cover combine with significant daytime warming – even when nights are cold – wreaking havoc on many woody plants, especially those that are not yet established. Cold and drought damage plant cells through similar mechanisms, so dry, frigid weather delivers a double whammy to these plants. Learn more: Protecting Trees Through Unpredictable Winters in the Mountain West
This practice is not particularly beneficial in gardens that hold snow cover over winter, since plants in such gardens already receive water when temperatures rise. In “winter brown” gardens, however, watering allows us to manage one of those plant-damaging variables: desiccation (the process of extreme drying). At its most basic, this is the concept behind winter watering.
As much as it hydrates the plant, winter watering serves to replace air in the soil profile with water. Water has one of the highest specific heat capacities of any liquid, meaning it can hold an enormous amount of heat energy compared to many natural substances. Slowly radiating this heat into the soil, water insulates roots and reduces temperature swings while hydrating the roots it envelops. This has benefits beyond the roots, too, as there is some research to indicate that regular winter watering also reduces the likelihood of sunscald (also known as southwest
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