Most gardeners are planted bulbous flowers to their garden or summer cottage. Plants are the decoration of any flower bed. Planting tulips, daffodils and hyacinths has its own characteristics, which should be considered when growing flower culture.
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Preparatory work
To enjoy the abundant flowering the following year, bulbous flowers are planted in the fall. Recommend spending landing in September and October. During the remaining time before the onset of cold weather the plant is well established, but still will not have time to germinate.
Spring flowers are starting to grow up early when the leaves on the trees have not yet blossomed. It is therefore preferable to choose a site that is protected from cold wind and well-lit. It is advisable to plant bulbs next to a bush, structure, fence or alpine hill on the south side.
These flowers are unpretentious culture, they develop normally in soils of different types, but can not tolerate the ground where water stands or comes close to the surface.
Before planting the land dug to a depth of 30 cm and allow the soil to settle down a bit. To fluff up the land, the soil add compost. In heavy clay soils make sand (1-2 buckets per 1 m²).
If flowers are planted on infertile soil, it is made to improve the nutritional mixture vegetation crops. Bulbous respond well to complex fertilizer containing phosphorus and potassium.
In the selection of planting bulbs carefully inspect the material. Seeds with traces of damage, decay and disease discarded. Selected bulbs treated in a solution of potassium manganese.
How to plant
planting depth should exceed the height of the bulb 3 times. Seed spread on the beds and lightly pressed into the soil. Sprinkle the soil with a mixture of garden soil, compost and peat. Mulch plot fallen leaves.
Recommend to plant bulbs at the following distance:
- small - 5-7 cm;
- average - 10-12 cm;
- large - 18-20 cm.
Interval may also depend on the visual effect. Sometimes the seeds are planted in a spread, at different distances from each other.
After planting, the plants well watered. It is necessary to stimulate the growth of the root system. Sooner established plants easier to tolerate cold and frost.
If you want to plant onion culture in a pot or container, adhere to the following scheme:
- Choosing a large capacity with a drainage hole.
- Placed at the bottom of the shingle.
- Fill a container with a mixture of soil.
- Put onion, covered with soil and watered.
With this growing flower seeds can be planted closer to each other. You can combine plants of different heights. Pots are placed in places where the bulbs not be frozen, but the temperature does not exceed + 12 ° C. It can be insulated with a special material in the climate zone where warm winter container.
Sometimes planting bulbous plants spend layers (sandwich system). Tulips, florescent latter, are planted in the bottom layer. Hyacinths that bloom early, put above. This planting technique has no adverse impact on the bulb. Crop bloom one after another, in one place.
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