DAMAGE BY FROST
WATCH YOUNG PLANTS. Because of its loosening and pulverising nature, frost actually benefits the soil, but may prove a source of danger to plants by disturbing the roots and partially lifting them ' out of the ground. Many apparently inexplicable failures of newly planted material may rightly be attributed to this action of frost. It is, therefore, worth while for Masterton gardeners to make a tour of the garden when the ground has thawed out for the purpose of treading back; into place any fruit trees, shrubs, roses and herbaceous plants that, have been disturbed at the roots by this means. Loosened, rockery plants should be made firm, replacing at the same time any soil that has been washed away from the roots by rain. Casualties among rock plants are usually due to excessive moisture rather than cold.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 3
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140DAMAGE BY FROST Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 3
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