Flower Garden At Home

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

How pleasant it is to look at a house surrounded by at least a small garden! You involuntarily imbued with respect for the mistress of such a house, her hard work and ability to decorate the life of your family. Floriculture is a pleasant and exciting business. It also plays a significant role in the upbringing of children. Creating a flower garden and caring for it develops love for nature and work, observation, a sense of beauty. Children and should become the first helpers of mothers in creating a flower garden

It often happens that even though flower lovers tastefully pick up plants and place them correctly, a good flower garden still does not work out. "Flowers do not take root with us!" - the hostess laments. To avoid such a disappointment, you need to know under what conditions the flowers that you are going to grow will grow well.

If horsetail, wild sorrel grow near your house, and the ground turns green, then the soil is acidic, poorly drained. Daffodils, tulips, lilies, perennial phlox planted in such a land will grow poorly and may even die completely. Therefore, work in a flower garden always begins with soil preparation. 10-15 days before planting, the ground must be well dug up, leveled with a rake, and stones, debris and rhizomes of weeds must be removed from it. Areas with acidic soil must be drained, diverting grooves must be arranged, and fluffy lime must be added to the soil, from 100 to 500 g per square meter. Depleted soils need organic fertilizers: manure, greenhouse, leaf humus or compost - one bucket for each square meter of area.

After fertilizing the soil, dig it up again. Fresh manure can only be applied in autumn, and even then not for all flowers. Many bulbous plants, as well as levkoi, asters, get sick and die if they are planted on soil fertilized with fresh manure. To keep the bushes lush, with an abundance of flowers, feed the soil two or three times during the summer with both universal and organic fertilizers.

Mineral fertilizers are scattered between the plants, and then they are shallowly embedded in the soil. For a square meter of soil, you need 15-20 g of ammonium nitrate, 10-12 g of potassium salt, 20-30 g of superphosphate. Before and after fertilization, the land is watered.

Organic fertilizers are applied in liquid form when feeding. It is not difficult to prepare them: slurry is poured into a tub or manure is put, a little bird droppings (chicken, pigeon) and wood ash are added. All this is poured with water (five buckets of water are taken for one bucket of fertilizer), mixed and allowed to wander for 3-7 days in hot weather and 10-13 days in cool; when bubbles appear on the surface, it can be considered ready. For watering, a bucket of solution is diluted with 4-5 buckets of water. In order not to burn the roots of plants, liquid top dressing is introduced into the grooves dug between the plants and previously watered with water. The condition of plants depends not only on nutrition, but also on watering. It is better to water less often, but abundantly, in order to wet the soil to the full depth of the roots. Water should not be colder than air.

Everyone who grows flowers wants them to please the eye for as long as possible. But each plant blooms only for a certain time: either in the spring, or in the summer, or in the fall. Therefore, select plants so that they replace each other in flowering.

Many annuals do not bloom until the end of June and die from the first autumn frosts. Therefore, if you plant only annuals, you cannot get continuous flowering throughout the summer. But among the perennial plants wintering in the open field, there are many flowering in early spring and late autumn. With their help, it is possible to create gardens in which there will be flowers from snow to snow.