Blooming lilies - time of quiet happiness for the gardener. Delicate flowers delight the eye and fill the air with a delicate aroma, the envy of neighbors and visitors. Popular varieties are widely distributed, but sometimes they do not flower as profusely as at a friend's, and an inexperienced gardener trying to find a solution to the problem.
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Advice
Despite the resemblance, all modern varieties of lilies are divided into varieties and hybrids according to their origin. When buying new bulbs have to pay attention to the name of a species or a hybrid (no grade). Among these types for good growth and flowering requires soil with a weakly alkaline reaction, and sour sites they feel uncomfortable. These include varieties of lilies:
- Henry;
- David;
- Caucasian;
- tubular;
- Kudrevatov;
- royal;
- Dutch and Orleans hybrids.
Before planting the bulbs of these plants are ground lime required, introducing 200 grams of ground chalk or dolomite per 1 sq. m. Land with these types of flowers per year in the early season to be watered with a solution of chalk or gypsum (1-2 handful meal powder per 10 liters of water poured onto 1 square meter). The remaining dressing is carried out according to the general scheme.
How and when to feed?
If the ground on a bed fertile, well-prepared to loosen and fall, then a spring planting is not necessary to make any fertilizer. For autumn preparation recommended introduction decomposed manure or compost (5-7 kg per 1 meter) and 80-100 g of double superphosphate. Carefully dig the soil, mixed with fertilizers.
With spring planting in unprepared soil organic matter can not be added, especially nepereprevshy litter or manure. If the purchase of bulbs spontaneous and the site is not ready for planting, use mineral mixtures Fertikov, Agricola, Kemira suite and others.
For planting, post-wintering make fertilizing solutions:
- The stepping up of green mass and form strong thick stems of the first feeding is best to hold on the snow residues. On a bed of roses on the surface scatter ammonium nitrate at the rate 2 tablespoons. l. 1 sq. m. If the dressing is carried out after the snow melts, it is rational to make nitrogen fertilizer with irrigation water by dissolving 1 tbsp. l. of the same drug in 5-10 liters of water and spraying the soil on a bed before the start of the growing season.
- After 2 weeks, the soil enriched with potassium and phosphorus salts. They are necessary to lay the buds and affect flowering splendor. The primer solution add wood ash: it sieved and diluted in water at the rate of 2 to 10 L glass. The resulting liquid should be poured onto 1 square. m. plot with lilies. Best performed after fertilizing rain. If there is a dry spring, before fertilization watered flower bed, to the nutrients were able to penetrate to a depth of bedding bulbs.
- In the summer, in the beginning of flowering, lily Feed the drug NPK (1 tbsp. l. 10 liters of water). Adding to the complex nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium helps to get larger flowers with intensely colored petals. introduction to the feeding requirements are the same as for the ash solution.
- To extend the period of flowering plants and provide all the necessary nutrients in the period increased demand for them is carried out during flowering time more 1 feeding wood ash rate of 100-150 g 1 sq. m. (dissolved in irrigation water). Manipulation is carried out about 1 week after the beginning of flowering.
In late August, the bulbs store up nutrients for the winter. To lily well tolerated cold, for every 1 sq. m making a solution of 1 tbsp. l. double superphosphate and 1.5 st. l. Potassium-magnesium in 10 l. water.
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