Novice growers are often asked, peonies faded - what to do next. Tips experienced gardeners tell us how to care for flowers after flowering to avoid mistakes while growing.
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Do I need to cut peonies after flowering?
Peonies are perennial plants. After budding, they form new buds, from which flowers grow next year. For the active growth of the bush needed nutrients and a large green mass. Without leaves trimmed plants weaken and disappear. Bush withered to the root crop can not be right. This is the main mistake beginners. Make only a decorative trim.
Experienced gardeners recommend cut peonies so in summer the lower part of the stem, which kept the bud, do not touch, leave the 2-3 large leaves per spike, and the rest is cut off.
The roots can be trimmed bush in late autumn, when the first frosts come. Above the left kidney hemp small height of 2-3 cm and are covered with compost or humus layer thickness of at least 10 cm. Shelter protects plants from winter frosts, early spring will give energy and vitality for development.
Care after flowering peony
Care withered peony is as follows:
- Dry cleaning buds.
- Watering.
- loosening the soil.
- Fertilizing.
- Adult division of the bush.
Cleaning
Peonies - lush flowers with a small flowering period, from 10 to 15 days. Then the buds dry out, lose their petals, which crumble into the bush. This can lead to rotting of the root system, and fungal diseases of stems and leaves, such as botrytis. Dried flowers are collected and burned.
Watering
The root system of pions wide. The diameter of the root reaches 40-60 cm, so watering operate at a small distance from the bush. To prevent water overflowed form the groove depth of 10-15 cm. For the moisture retention and protection from sunlight mulch is used in the form of straw or green grass.
Watering suited to defend or rainwater. Per adult bush need to spend no less than 30 liters of liquid. In dry weather peonies watered 2 times a week in the evening, so that moisture does not evaporate and it is well absorbed into the soil.
loosening
Damp earth air becomes solid, taken crust. The plant does not have enough nutrients. To ensure the oxygen necessary to loosen the soil:
- near the stem - in depth of 5-7 cm;
- away from the bush - to a depth of 10-15 cm.
top-dressing
12-14 days after flowering in moist soil making fertilizer. Feed may be a liquid solution or dry mixture prepared from 1/2 art. l. superphosphate and 1/3 Art. l. potassium salt in the bush. The granules dispersed on the soil. Liquid watered the soil near the roots.
Dividing and transplanting
Adults overgrown bushes older than 5 years are blooming every year worse. To rejuvenate the plant, the roots should be divided. The best time to divide and transplant - the end of August - beginning of September.
Transplant peonies:
- Cut the aboveground part 2/3.
- Dig around the old bush at a distance of 20 cm from the roots.
- Garden fork pull the plant.
- Leave it in the shade for 2-3 hours.
- Divide the roots: clean rotten and dead parts, leave healthy stems with 4-5 buds.
- Seated in the prepared hole at a distance of 1 m from each other.
- To the young plant is not podmerzli his shelter a thick layer of mulch or humus.
With the right approach to the cultivation of horticultural crops peonies for a long time will please the host sumptuous flowering.
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