2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Annual flowers require a lot of attention from the grower. The seeds sown for seedlings in the winter months have already sprouted and require re-picking. It was time for later varieties to sow in the open field, right in the flower bed. What other works in April should not be forgotten by lovers of bright flower gardens?
Care for seedlings of annuals
Features of work on growing seedlings in April largely depend on the timing of sowing seeds for seedlings. Provided that you were engaged in sowing your pets in the winter, a re-picking of plants is carried out in April. If in March, lobelia was transplanted in small bunches, then in April one seedling is already being picked. For those who breed petunias, in March it was also possible to limit themselves to a transplant of several pieces. Well, now they are planted separately in individual pots.
Those belated sowing, which was carried out in March, dive only once. In particular, this rule applies to ageratum. It doesn't matter if the work on sowing this flower has been postponed. Sowing can also be carried out in April. The blooming of the petals of the buds will have to wait longer, but this method also has its own benefit - flowering will last until the very frost.
Crops for film shelters
Florists who start sowing seeds in April can use cold greenhouses or film covers of the soil. In such nurseries, seedlings grow without picking, therefore, the distance between crops is made larger than in indoor conditions.
During these periods, you can sow marigolds, dimorphotes, levkoy, asters, zinnias. The latter is famous for its uneven seedlings. The gap between them can be a whole week, so do not rush to occupy the free space with other crops - the flower may still appear on the surface. A surprise that an aster can present is a disease of a mushroom nature. Therefore, do not be too lazy to pickle the seed in advance. Another candidate for shelter placement is the immortelle, but sowing of this annual plant is started towards the end of the month.
Sowing annuals in open ground
Sowing in April in open ground is carried out for those plants that tolerate the still cool weather relatively well, but are too tender to tolerate transplanting. Among such annuals are clarkia, escholzia, godetia.
Clarkia seeds germinate in about two weeks. The crops are made thicker, but when the plants appear on the surface of the earth, the seedlings will need to be thinned out. There should be a distance of approximately 15-20 cm between them. Unlike the more sensitive escholzia, clarkia still has the ability to take root in a new place. However, young seedlings weakened by transplanting can be destroyed by flea beetles. This parasite also loves to settle in the area with godetia. If a pest makes itself felt, solutions of metaphos, ovadophos are used to combat it.
Another ornamental culture that does not like transplants and prefers sowing directly into open ground is sweet peas. The flower is known for its rapid development, so the grower has to keep up with feeding, tying up and pinching the plant. Top dressing is done with saltpeter. You need to take care of the supports as soon as the shoots appear - the peas grow very quickly. Pinching the top of the seedlings is done over the third leaf - then the stem will branch beautifully.
Planting seedlings on flower beds
Those who nevertheless sowed sweet peas for seedlings need to hurry up with planting flowers on a flower bed. Experienced florists, of course, will have such plants bloom a few weeks earlier.
Also, the time has come for planting seedlings of the snapdragon, levkoy. It is necessary to warn practitioners of crop rotation of plants from placing Levkoy in the area where there were previously plantings of cabbage. They have a common enemy - the cabbage keel.
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