To maintain the attractiveness of the plant and provide a magnificent flowering, you need to know how to properly divide the peony bush and transplanted to a new location. Experienced gardeners recommend to divide and multiply bushes every 4 years.
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rejuvenation of the bush
Peony, which grows more than 6 years, it is necessary to rejuvenate. The procedure is repeated every 4 years. If peony long time undergoes division, its roots are intertwined and connected with a durable fabric. Form the tissue of dead stems and growths root collar, from which grow the resumption of the kidney.
To dig up old peony bush, it is necessary to work hard t. To. The roots of it are fragile, easily broken. And if the plant is dug for a long time, the root system goes into the ground to a depth of 80-90 cm. If you do not spend rejuvenation procedure, on the plant generated a large number of leaves, bush often exposed to disease. It reduced the number of flowers, and they become smaller and quickly wither.
The rejuvenation is carried out in the period from August 10-12 and 15-20 of September. If the autumn is warm, it is possible to carry out the procedure and the end of September. From bush retreat 25 cm and dig a trench depth of 50-60 cm. Then take a crowbar and swing bush to secure his full release from the soil.
Further ground gently removed from the roots, the plant is removed from the trench and left in the air for 3 h. During this time the roots podvyadayut become more resistant to mechanical stress. Stems are cut to a height of 10 cm, rinsed with water, ground roots and purified using a wooden peg.
For dividing old peonies use count. To do this it must be put in the root by the place with the least amount of kidneys. With the plant stake can be divided into the desired number of parts. Next, take a sharp knife and each part is divided into delenki. For this purpose the best suited of the young, the root diameter of which does not exceed 4 cm. The old part, where there are signs of disease and small kidneys, darkened tissue excised. Roots, broken during the separation, are also removed.
planting machinery
For planting selected delenki on which there are 2-3 resumption kidney and part of the root system of no less than 10 cm., Form 1 delenki larger, and others to a new peony bush blossomed luxuriantly in the spring of next year - leave standard. Bushes of these delenok bloom after 2 years.
To prepare delenki for planting, they are immersed in a solution of potassium permanganate (0.1%) for 30 minutes, after which the sections were sprinkled on crushed coal. 3 weeks before planting for each delenki prepared pit depth of 60 cm and its half filled with ground portion. Water is poured into the pit and put peony so that the root system of the kidneys were buried in the ground at 3-5 cm.
If the pit is prepared on the day of planting delenki, the kidneys do not bury more than 1 cm. Gradually the earth will shrink, and the kidneys will be at the appropriate burial. Kidney necessarily cover the ground by hilling. If penetration kidney process is executed incorrectly, pions are poorly bloom and flowers can not be.
Once stable advancing freezing plants sprinkled peat (thickness - 12 cm). With the arrival of early spring peat cover is removed to the root system is not podoprela. In the future pions do not need such protection because mature plants are well tolerated in the winter.
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