How Does Weather Impact your Garden?

Weather and climate both have a very great effect on gardening. Seasonal factors like sunlight, temperature, rainfall, wind, and frost, play a role that determines the growth conditions of your plants.

The first thing to do in understanding the impact of weather to crops is to understand the climatic conditions. An understanding of the general local climate is more important to your garden than even the weather condition itself.

Climatic conditions vary according to regions. Factors like the location within a northern or southern zone, altitude, and the direction of prevailing winds and the proximity of large bodies of water like a coast or lake can effect on your garden. Water retains its heat at night and can have an impact on the local temperature. Altitude should also be considered alongside the direction of prevailing winds.
Your garden also has a climatic condition. This may depend on the kind of house you live in and your garden’s access to sunlight. The height of fences, the garden’s soil type, and its proximity to water can affect your garden’s climate.

There is also the micro-climate, which is the immediate area where your plants are situated. The things nearby can impact on your plants. If parts of your garden is in the shade while other areas gets lots of sunshine in a particular time of the day, its affects them negatively or positively. Other factors like slopes, wind, hedges and fences can affect the plants too.

Various weather conditions also have a daily impact on your garden and the plants within it.
The rainy seasons favor some plants, while winter and summer favor others. There may be need for more watering during dry seasons. Harsh winter nights and sunny winter days can raise and drop the temperatures which can also affect the plants.

Some plants thrive well in summer. For example, hot temperatures are good for tomato and many other fruits which thrive in hot conditions but. High temperatures, on the reverse also cause the soil to dry out faster, affects the flower petals blooming period and the seeds. Wind can also damage vegetation. They blow over plant pots and fall off trees branches, damaging other plants. You can use a hedge or fence as a windbreaker to reduce the severity of the wind effect. Frost also greatly affect gardens being that it’s hard to predict when it’s going to occur. Frosts may also reduce the availability of water necessary for plant survival and can also spoil the plant structure itself.

In conclusion, there is no hard and fast rule to solving climate and weather as they affect your garden. But having an understanding of their effects can give you simple ideas as to preparations to make to minimize the risks to your plants. In all, do all you can within your power, to give your plants the opportunity to flourish in all the weather conditions.
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