LSU AgCenter: Give fragile plants the kid gloves treatment in cold snap

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith

Published January 7, 2014 at 8:44 AM CST

The LSU AgCenter is offering many tips for keeping plants and trees alive during this cold snap. The AgCenter’s Shreveport-based horticulture agent Melea Martin said fragile plants should’ve been covered or moved during the last two nights of the hard freeze, but with care.

“During the freeze you want to make sure that if you do cover your plants with plastic, that the plastic is not touching the plant at all. It can cause damage to the plant," Martin said.

Martin said remember to remove the protective coverings during the day, and don’t be too quick to dig up plants that appear dead come the weekend when temperatures will rebound into the60s. She said they just might come around.

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.

LSU AgCenter: Give fragile plants the kid gloves treatment in cold snap

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