Last summer month crept unnoticed. Soon ottsvetut exquisite lilies and daylilies. They will be replaced by perennial flowers, and growers will have a lot to do in August.
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Division, planting and transplanting flowers
Novice gardeners wondering what to do florists in August. It's time to preserving the unique look of the garden. After all, plants need constant care. Otherwise, their decorative properties deteriorate. Flowers begin to ache. Periodically, you need to grow the replacement of old plants. We recommend the following steps:
- Trim sprouts wilted flowers petunias and ageratum. Thyme shortened if necessary. Tidy overgrown perennials.
- Fertilize flowers of complex drugs. Drizzle with perennials and remove the yellow leaves.
- Division, planting and transplanting is best done in cool weather. Fall colors will take root and will take a good winter.
After selecting the best places you need to dig up the ground. Pre should be made compost, 2 tbsp. l. potassium sulphate, 1.5 Art. l. superphosphate. Required to pour, wait for the weeds and remove them.
Taking care of irises and peonies
In the thickets of irises is easy to see a lot of yellowing and drooping leaves. Will need to transplant flowers. For planting is necessary to select a healthy leaf fan and a piece of rhizome. On the cuttings should be reduced foliage and roots of 10 cm. Delenki want to put in a concentrated solution of potassium permanganate. Then it is necessary to leave the cuttings in the sun. A day later, they can be planted.
It is necessary to dig a hole and covered a small hill. Put the rhizome and straighten it. Absorb soil compacted by hand and check the depth of planting. It is considered valid when rhizome is located at ground level.
Toward the end of summer lilies grow strongly. They should be divided after the appearance of 4 bulbs. To dig the nest to check the scales. They should be firm. Loose bulbs should be left for a while to recover. Dividing and transplanting roses is recommended in late August or early September. Spring sprouts too easy to break off.
If the ground is hard, it is necessary to make 1 m bucket humus or sand. More can not make, so as not to harm the flowers. It is light soil compost, make superphosphate and potassium sulphate (2: 1).
Undesirable overdry roots. Lily plant to a depth twice the bulb itself. In furrows fill sand. To put the bulbs to improve the roots. Sprinkle sand and fertile soil.
Planting peonies should be especially careful. Each cutting should dig a hole. It is better to make a wide and deep. The optimum depth of 70 cm is considered. Then it will be a place to make a nutrient mixture consisting of land. We need to take 2 buckets of compost. Mix well and pour a layer of top 20 cm of soil:
- Make a hole for 3 weeks before planting. Then fine ground settles. If you want to plant many shrubs, make holes at a distance of 1 m.
- Dig plant cuttings to 3 parts with buds. Growers are advised to select shoots with 2 buds. They are a great material for planting. Ideally, if the stalk is a part of the rhizome. Then the grown peonies grow up healthy and live long.
- Planting on heavy soils requires a deepening of the kidneys to 5 cm, and the light - 7 cm.
Shallow planting peonies will damage the winter frosts. In the summer the plants harm overheating. Because of too deep planting peonies do not bloom often.
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