Gorgeous balcony flower bed of wild and garden annuals, you can grow your own from seed. A flower bed will cost quite inexpensive, but all summer will please the eye and attract beneficial insects to the garden.
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Do not sow the seeds too thickly-it inhibits the growth of seedlings and creates a need to thin out the crop.
Wild and garden inhabitants balcony
For a colorful balcony gardening suit cornrose, cornflower, Nigella Damascus ( "girl in green"), kosmeya, eschscholzia and many other plants. Various firms even offer a blend of wild seeds or cultural annual plants, specially selected for balcony boxes. These seeds should just sow in containers filled with soil mix.
The best time for sowing - the first half of May. Fill the container substrate. Several times carefully tap it against a hard surface to land properly settled. Then gently tap plaque substrate while aligning the surface.
Now seeds evenly over the soil surface and sprinkle them screened through a 1 cm thick soil. Again tamp the soil plaque. After sowing the contents of the box you want to water. Use a watering can with fine holes and pour slowly and carefully, so as not to wash away the seeds. Finally, close the drawer non-woven covering materials, and secure the edges clothespins or tape. Set up boxes to a permanent place. Shelter protects crops from the cold and will not dry out the land. Instead of the nonwoven material may be a transparent plastic film, which needs to be done a plurality of small vent holes. Take care that the land does not dry, but water the crops gradually: excessive dampness is fraught with the appearance of mold. Sprouts should be getting enough air for growth and development. When the seedlings appear first leaves, they begin to compete with each other for a place under the sun. If they grow too thickly, it is necessary to thin out the crops. To do this, gently pull out of the ground extra seedlings. They can be planted in the garden or in separate pots.
For 30 minutes, you can:
- 2 Fill the box ground, sow the seeds and cover them film.
- Soak in water 20 dewatered tablets nutrient substrate, to sow seeds them, put on a tray and closing a film.
- The two boxes 80 cm length is too thick to thin planting.
Sowing on the windowsill
The seeds of heat-loving balcony flowers germinate best in a mini-teplichke. This is especially true touchy (Balzaminov), calendula, Clark, cosmos sulfur-yellow and zinnias. Seeds of these plants provide friendly shoots and seedlings do not require complex care. In addition, the balcony of your own flower garden grown plants will cost you much cheaper than buying a flower seedlings.
For germination, use small glasses filled with compost from biodegradable materials. Destroy, they enrich the soil necessary for the development of seedlings with nutrients. Later, the grown plants can be planted to a permanent place directly with cups. Cups and after planting the plants do not dry out - otherwise they will be an insurmountable obstacle for the growth of roots. The nicking or tearing of the wall, you make it easier penetration of roots in this soil.
Germinating seeds can be used and the tablets of the dehydrated and tight compacted substrate saturated with all the necessary for the development of plants elements. In water, these little wheels strongly swell; fine plastic mesh keeps them together. After swelling the substrate ready for sowing seeds.
On a pallet placing biodegradable cups or swollen sacs of nutrient substrate close to each other - otherwise they will quickly dry out. In each of them one by one place (in the extreme case, the two or three) seed. In a warm and bright place seeds germinate soon.
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