Gold Placers Of Solidago. Growing

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

Many gardeners believe that goldenrod can grow without care for a long time, without requiring close attention to its person. With this approach, instead of a beautiful flower bed, continuous chaotic thickets are obtained, the original beauty of the plantings is lost. How to properly grow solidago on the site?

Preferences

Goldenrod loves sunny places. Easily tolerates weak partial shade. Prefers to settle on light fertile loams. Poorly tolerates heavy soils in shady, swampy places, being affected by powdery mildew, bacterial rot of the root system.

In areas with a close location of groundwater, drainage from small stones or pebbles is arranged. Indifferent to soil acidity. Feels equally good on acidic and alkaline soils.

Frost resistant. Withstands temperatures under snow cover up to -30 degrees.

Landing

For goldenrod, choose flower beds located on the sunny side. In shady places, the bushes feel uncomfortable: the stems are elongated, the flowering is weak, and are more quickly affected by powdery mildew.

Planting dates depend on the conditions of the region:

• in early spring, after the snow melts, thawing of the soil;

• in late August.

Rotted compost is scattered over the surface. Dig the earth on the bayonet of a shovel, picking perennial weeds. Pits are made at a distance of 40 cm from each other. The depth depends on the size of the planting material: for rhizomes - 15-20cm, for seedlings - 5-10cm.

Spill with a solution of the complex fertilizer "Zdraven". In large divisions, damaged parts are removed. Spread the roots. Fall asleep with fertile soil. Squeeze the ground around the bushes.

For tall varieties, a support is installed in the form of a peg or circular iron supports. To prevent evaporation, the trunks are mulched with peat, humus, sawdust.

Care

Close attention is required for newly transplanted plants. Until the moment of complete rooting, adaptation in a new place, regular watering is carried out during dry periods 1-3 times a week at small rates. Try not to create excessive waterlogging.

With a good filling of the soil before planting, the bushes are fed for the second and subsequent years at the beginning of the regrowth of the green mass with complex fertilizers.

Loosening of the soil, timely removal of weeds, help to remove "competitors", create favorable conditions for aeration of the root system.

During the period of mass flowering, tall varieties are tied to a support, preventing their unwanted lodging. Low options do not need stands.

To preserve the decorative appearance, limiting self-seeding, after flowering, dried parts of the branches are removed

With the onset of cold weather, the goldenrod is prepared for wintering:

• stop watering;

• for a month they are fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, excluding nitrogen components;

• cut the ground part to a level of 10-15 cm from the ground;

• rake up fallen leaves, which are a source of spread of diseases, a place of shelter for pests;

• soil is mulched with humus.

Adult plants do not need shelter.

Diseases

With thickened plantings in the summer, the lower part of the plant is affected by powdery mildew, rust.

The methods of struggle can be reduced to preventive measures:

1. Disembarkation in a ventilated area according to the norm per unit area.

2. Thinning of thickened plantings.

3. Removal of the lower leaves at the first signs of the disease.

4. Treatment of the soil around the bushes with copper-containing preparations in the second half of summer.

5. Incineration of contaminated plant residues.

Pests

Of the pests on goldenrod, there are naked slugs, butterfly caterpillars. They eat up juicy foliage, impairing the decorative appearance.

The most effective pest control techniques are:

• daily manual collection throughout the day;

• inspection of leaves for butterflies egg-laying, their destruction;

• device of traps for slugs (boards or roofing material are laid out, moistening the soil, pests are collected in the morning);

• planting next to strong-smelling flowers (marigolds, marigolds, decorative wormwood).

We will consider the areas of application of solidago in the next article.