When we dig dahlias by all the rules of gardening, flowers next year again delight us with their beauty and health. The most important thing - to follow all the advice of the masters.
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Advice
Flowers need to dig out after the first autumn frosts. By this time, the head of dahlias are beginning to lean toward the ground, lose their color, the leaves darken, curl and fall too close to the ground. To the following year dahlias pleasing health and beauty, before we get to them digging, you need to stick to these tips:
- Tools for the job should be prepared in advance. Gardeners need: a shovel, clippers or any suitable cutting sharp object pitchfork.
- Further adaptations to work, it is necessary to prepare a container in which are stored tubers. For each of them it is necessary to stick a piece of paper on which the specified color grade.
- Dahlia from the ground gets after a bottom of the stem will be torn leaves. This is done in order to make it easier to calculate the distance from the stem when obkapyvanii.
- After the leaves are torn off, you need to cut both the upper part of the stem.
- Before you get the flowers out of the ground, dig around the bush. This will save the tubers from damage and help keep the flowers roots.
- Obkopku produce at a distance of 20 cm from the landing.
- Flowers gets out of the ground by means of the forks. Them from all sides need to lift the bush so as to be above the ground. Using fork will help keep tubers unharmed.
- In no case can not pull the stem bush, otherwise the tubers crumble. Take them out of the soil is only necessary hands.
- Once the bush brought to the surface, you need to shake it off the ground.
- Stalk crop shears so that the stump height was 10 cm.
- dahlia stalks structure is hollow, which is why they often accumulate a lot of water. From it you need to get rid of, or during storage it will contribute to rotting of tubers.
- Once rid of the water, the plant should be dry.
- After 2 weeks, after drying the stems must be checked for damage from rodents, dried and diseased parts of the tuber. Traces of harmful zelenkoj treat mammals, to remove unnecessary parts of plants, cut them also process this vehicle.
- When dividing the tubers need from each delenki leave a small portion of the neck, on which there is a kidney.
- Before the plant is storing it, it must be thoroughly dried.
To dahlia not "picked up" at storage time fungal infections, they are recommended to soak in a solution that consists of 4 ml of the preparation "Maxim" and 2 L of water. In order to prevent the occurrence of infections, it is sufficient to hold the tubers to obtain funds for 20-30 minutes.
Good preventive means is a fungicide solution. previously rinsed with running water Before processing tubers.
Before you remove the dahlias for storage, they must be within 7 days to hold in a cool place. This is done in order to suberized topsheet root. Such a procedure will help to protect the tubers from rotting.
After all the procedures flowers can be removed for storage. The room in which they are located, should be cool (optimum temperature 2 +... + 8 ° C, humidity - 60-80%). If you keep flowers in the room, they need to pre-coat paraffin, then they are well preserved until the next planting.
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