🏡 Cooking cottage for the winter: 10 important nuances that you might forget

Few people visit your country cottage area in the winter, and if they come to visit, it is only to check if everything is in order and barbecue on New Year's weekend. The theme of today's discussion on HouseShief.ru - preparing for the winter garden. There are 10 important nuances, which in any case can not be forgotten.

Before winter, you need to prepare the garden, vegetable garden and house to your absence

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1 General cleaning of the house
2 Basement and communication
3 We protect the house from thieves
4 Preparation of the yard and the equipment for the winter
5 Pre-winter in the garden
6 Cases for garden
7 Prepare well
8 preservation of the septic tank
9 Firewood for baths and kebab
10 Friendly relations with its neighbors

General cleaning of the house

Leaving the cottage, remember that all that remains in the house, be stored at low temperatures. No matter how well was insulated housewithout heating there will be cold. So if you have the windows were blooming violets and orchids - all to climb into the apartment.

Potted flowers will not survive in the harsh conditions

The second important point - things. All you need to wash and dry thoroughly. All things, and cotton, and wool, must be removed in sealed packages, Preferably with the system vacuum storage. The bags of woolen stuff, just in case put tablets of moth.

Furniture in the house need to wipe the dust and cover with plastic or cloth. Do not leave food in the cupboards, or mouse progryzut holes in them.

To scare off rodents, spread out on the shelves of dried tarragon

If you leave the house some products - hide them in glass or plastic jars. So they do not otsyreyut and become food for rats.

Basement and communication

Drain all pipe and tanks, Disconnect gas and electricity. If a water pipe to the garden as much as possible Insulate her to avoid being ripped from frost.

All you need to de-energize electrical appliances, wipe and packed in sealed packages

Basement in the house should be swept away and set in it a few tanks with salt, so that no dampness.

Salt will draw excess moisture from the atmosphere

We protect the house from thieves

In winter, many fans of other people's property foraged in the cottages when no masters. protect from this it is difficult, but possible. The easiest way out - make a contract with the private security. But keep in mind, your giving law enforcement officers arrive not immediately after receipt of the signal. It is necessary to take other precautions.

Think carefully about where you can make a cache, and to hide all valuables

In addition, you can use and modern technical means: CCTV. If it will send a signal to your home and record, even in the event of a breach will be a chance to find the intruder.

Finally, set locks on all doors and hide the window behind bars or shutters.

Original thought is to leave on the table a bottle of vodka and a jar of canned food with a request to leave everything as is. Sometimes, such a move could stop the attackers from the pogrom

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Preparation of the yard and the equipment for the winter

All that can be removed in the yard, clean. Garden swings, tables and benches, brazier, Construction materials - all these should be removed to the storeroom. Before that, all metal parts must be covered grease.

In the same storage room must be removed and the equipment for gardening

If you Foil greenhouse - Remove the foil, otherwise it will tear from the wind and be destroyed by frost. Glass and plastic greenhouses to be treated against insects, otherwise they will spend the winter there safely and multiply.

Pre-winter in the garden

Until the early snowfall is necessary to make an inventory of all garden plants, and remove diseased and dried. Make pruning trees, hiding the cut garden pitch. In places where the crust behind, it is necessary to remove and paint over with pitch. Trees should blanch at the height of a meter from the ground hydrated lime. This will help them to survive the cold and protect against rodents.

If the problem is acute rodents - wrap trunks of roofing material or at least polyethylene

By the winter shrubs and fruit trees can fertilize phosphate and potash fertilizers.

In autumn, you can replant trees and to plant young trees. All climbing plants are best removed with trellises and lay on the ground. You can scatter them, or spruce branches cover covering materials.

Under the winter, you can sow the flowers that sprout in early spring: asters, cornflowers, calendula, cosmos, aquilegia, primroses.

Cases for garden

It is necessary to remove all frost tops with beds. All biomaterial that you collect, including leaves and branches after pruning can be put in the compost. Will help speed up the process garden shredder. He grind all the garbage on the smallest particles.

In the garden can be a winter to do some planting. They were not watered and lay, when it started freezing. After planting furrow is filled with peat or compost and a bed harboring lutrasilom or spruce branches.

Thus it is possible to plant carrot, onion, garlic, radish, salad greens, beet

Prepare well

Well safely survive the winter, it is not necessary to somehow insulate. But once a year, preferably in the autumn, clean it from dirt. So the water will be cleaner, and your home is not sick of intestinal infection. This is done as follows: the water is pumped pump, and then hand the walls are cleaned of plaque. After mechanical cleaning, use disinfectant tablets. They are dissolved in a bucket of water and pour into the well at noon. After the water is pumped out.

If you do this procedure in the autumn, in the spring of your well is ready to use without extra care

preservation of the septic tank

In winter, you will not be using septic tank? Then it is better to preserve it. You can simply call assenizatorskaya machine and clean it. If this is not possible - fill the septic tank special bacteria. They quickly recycled waste and make them suitable for pumping into compost or other place. Bacteria need at least a couple of weeks.

After cleaning the septic tank to fill with water, to freeze the soil it will not warp

Firewood for baths and kebab

Actually, you need to chop wood in the summer to the logs had to dry on hot days. In the fall they definitely need to shelter from the rain and snow. The best thing store them under cover. Dry wood will warm quickly bathhouseIf you want to warm up in the winter and to dive into the snow.

Barbecue better lay up wood from fruit trees, they are a particularly fragrant meat

Friendly relations with its neighbors

If you have neighbors who live in the country all year round, be sure to familiarize yourself with them. And this must be done not before leaving the city, but much earlier. Call them on the dumplings, socialize with a glass of tea - and no watchman, you will not need, because human relationships are always the best.

Shake with neighbors phones and do not forget it from time to time to call

That's all the major work on the preparation of the garden for winter. Do not forget to prepare the sled or snowmobile for winter fun, because in front of the New Year holidays, which is best done not for bursting with snacks table, and on the nature! If we have missed anything in this material, write in the comments!