2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Aster is a beautiful special garden flower, so varied, many-sided, loved by many summer residents. Not too whimsical. However, it still requires a certain amount of attention and the ability to properly care for it. You just need to remember, like arithmetic, the steps of caring for him at different times of the year, and he will delight his garden plots with his flowering appearance in the summer
How to prepare seeds?
You can buy astrochek seeds at any garden store. But it is more interesting to independently collect them. In this case, you will be sure of their quality, you will be able to select flowers, decorate garden flower beds in a special way.
Wait for the flowers to fade in the garden. You will see that the center of the flower has become dark, white fluff has appeared on it. It is this inflorescence that needs to be collected, slightly dried if they have not yet completely dried in the sun, wrapped in paper bags (you can sign the color of asters on them, if this is important for you) and stored in a dry, cool place.
Do not store seeds for too long. Plant the seeds collected in the last summer season immediately for the next one, since after two or three seasons the collected seed germinates worse.
Seedling preparation
In early April, you should start planting aster seeds in seedling boxes. The planting depth is small. The seeds are poured into grooves half a centimeter deep. A distance of two centimeters is made between the furrows. The soil must be pre-fertilized with compost. When planting, water the soil and seeds with a manganese solution to prevent plant disease.
As soon as the seeds "hatch" and their first shoots appear, the box should be placed in the light, otherwise the seedlings will stretch in length in a dark place. When three leaves appear on the seedlings, each plant must be transplanted into separate pots or into another box at a distance of five centimeters from each other. The aster picks are tolerated quite well.
Planting seedlings in the ground
Planting seedlings in the soil at their summer cottage should be approximately in mid-May. Plants are planted, leaving a free distance of 20 cm between them. In principle, aster seedlings can withstand sub-zero air temperatures. In any case, they will calmly tolerate sub-zero temperatures of five degrees. Therefore, there is no need to fear unexpected frosts in May.
Asters love light, so they should not be planted in the shaded areas of the summer cottage, but in the bright, sun-drenched meadows of the garden.
They also do not like too wet soil. Therefore, a place for their planting must be selected so that water from irrigation and wastewater from rains do not stagnate in it.
After planting, two weeks later, you need to feed the asters with flower complex fertilizers. Or do it this way. For each square meter of soil, add a mixture of one hundred grams of wood ash, sixty grams of superphosphate and thirty grams of potassium or fertilizer containing it.
Growing perennial asters
Above, the conversation was about annual asters. Growing perennial asters is similar to caring for annuals. As mentioned above, asters are unpretentious in care, and perennial asters are not yet demanding on the condition of the soil on which they grow.
But it was noticed that soils rich in humus, humus, supplied with mineral fertilizers, neutral in acid content, give a richer and more persistent flowering of these garden flowers.
Bushes of perennial asters should be planted at a distance of fifty centimeters from each other, since their root system will grow over time and it needs to be given space for this.
Asters will not tolerate the formation of an earth crust in the soil where they grow. Therefore, the land where the asters are planted needs to be loosened from time to time, weeded from weeds.
In a drought, these flowers should not be forgotten to water. During the flowering period, they also need additional watering. How to get a perennial aster bush from your garden for its propagation? Just. Fresh planting material is taken by ordinary division from an old bush, which is more than four years old, and it has been growing all this time in one place.
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