2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
At the end of October, sometimes even earlier, they finish active work on their personal plot. But already at the beginning of spring you want to see your garden blooming and beautiful. The material of this article will tell you how to achieve this
Plant flower seeds in late fall. No problem, if you are planting for the first time in the fall, it is not difficult. In the fall, you can sow seeds of various crops, while they will give excellent shoots in the spring. Such podzimny sowing has a number of advantages: saving time in spring and early shoots.
The advantages of planting flowers in autumn
In order to enjoy the pretty shoots of flowers and their bright flowering in early spring, take care of this in advance. At first glance, it will seem to novice gardeners that sowing seeds in the fall is not the best way to grow strong and worthy flower crops. But this is not true, the main advantage of the proposed method is the hardening of the plant. Seeds that have spent 3 - 4 months in the ground have survived the cold winter months, give truly persistent, strong and high-quality shoots. These plants will "breathe health", perfectly form the stem and have a deep root system. A powerful root is able to extract water from deep soil layers, which will affect a lower irrigation regime. In addition, podzimny plantings of plants are less sensitive to possible frosts and other weather conditions.
The obvious advantages of an autumn planting include the lack of excitement in the spring about the temperature of the earth. You will no longer be tormented by the question, is the soil warmed up enough for planting your favorite flowers and planting seedlings? The development of seeds planted in autumn begins according to the natural cycle, young plants appear at the right time, mother nature will take care of this.
The third huge advantage of this method is an elementary saving of your time and effort in the spring, when there are many other works in the garden, besides planting flowers. There is only one small nuance - the relatively low germination rate of seeds of annual flowers in comparison with the seedling method of growing.
Autumn planting of annuals
I think many in the spring in their areas found sudden shoots of cosmos or marigolds, which bloomed last summer. These flowers multiplied by self-seeding, in principle, any flowers can do this. However, in the fall, sow only cold-resistant seeds of annual flowers, the sprouts of which will definitely not die from frost in early spring. All procedures for autumn sowing begin after the onset of cold weather. Usually this is the period from late October - early November, at this time in many regions of Russia the topsoil is already frozen. It is necessary to sow in frozen soil, otherwise, in the event of an unexpected thaw, the seeds will germinate and subsequently die.
Prepare the sowing site in advance. Plan the flower bed so that in the spring the seeds are not washed out by melt water and there is no scorching sun. Dig up the soil, apply fertilizer, make small grooves in the form of grooves and leave the bed until frost.
At the right time, add seeds to the prepared bed and cover with a mixture of either peat with sand or humus with sand. For a successful "wintering", you can cover the soil with dry leaves. Watering autumn crops is not worth it. Given the low germination rate of seeds in autumn sowing, sow them somewhat denser than with a normal planting in spring. When the plants "hatch" in the spring, at the stage of two or three leaves, they can be thinned out if they sprout up densely.
Annuals for planting before winter
Most often, on store shelves, you can find such bags with seeds of annual flowers as: summer adonis, phlox, Chinese aster, fragrant mignonette, Chinese carnation, two-horned mattiola, large-flowered godetia, snapdragon, samoseyka poppy, cosmea, Ajax delphinium, chrysanthemum, calendula alyssum sea.
There is a huge selection of annuals and now, using the knowledge gained, feel free to start the autumn planting of flowers.
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