Autumn flowers do not cease to please a variety of colors.
Chrysanthemums occupy an honorable place among them.
Fluffy heads of these flowers bloom until frost,
when the bulk of the plants are already withering.
Lovers grow them in their gardens and homesteads.
plots.
In the autumn planting chrysanthemum is nothing complicated, enough
learn some useful information about sapling selection and conditions
cultivation.
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Subtleties of autumn planting chrysanthemum
The undoubted advantage of the autumn planting is the possibility
determine the color and size of the buds, the shape of the bush, which cannot be done
at spring purchase of a sapling.
However, experts tend to spring planting. For those, who
nevertheless decided to plant a chrysanthemum in the fall, there are rules that
help preserve the plant.
1. The best time for planting chrysanthemum is the end
September You can postpone the landing work until the beginning of October, but
further tightening is not worth it. The seedling will not have time to take root and
will die.
2. It is impossible to plant flowering bushes in late autumn, as they
poorly take root.
3. Saplings for autumn planting should have a few
formed basal shoots. Without them, the chrysanthemum bush is not
will transfer the winter.
Autumn planting chrysanthemums due to all the rules
Chrysanthemums are considered quite unpretentious and frost-resistant
plants. Grow them anywhere in the country. Every gardener
worries about planting chrysanthemums in the fall, what needs to be considered when
conducting work. After all, the beauty of flowering and the overall
state of the plant.
Preparing a place for landing
Chrysanthemums prefer sunny patches. The bed is better to break
on the dais. In the shade, the plant looks depressed. Flower
sensitive to groundwater. If they lie close to the roots,
it will require good drainage. As a drainage layer can
use river sand.
The soil on the plot should be loose, preferably neutral or
weak acid reaction. If the soil for planting is too heavy, then its
enrich with peat, humus and rotted manure. In each well
no more than 0.5 kg of fertilizer is added, otherwise next year
the plant will have a good crown, but the flowering will be scarce.
How to prepare the landing pit
The depth of the landing hole for chrysanthemum does not exceed 40 cm.
Each well is well drained, filled with fertilizer and watered.
The bush is lowered into the fossa, practically without deepening it. After landing
tall varieties set support. Seedlings need
nip, which is carried out immediately after landing. In hot
Autumn plant pritennuyut during the week from hitting the sun
rays. Rooting chrysanthemums is slow.
Grow chrysanthemums in rows. Plant spacing
depends on the type and size of the bush. Low and medium bushes
planted at a distance of about 30 cm, and tall varieties up to 50
cm.
Planting chrysanthemums spend in the evening or overcast
weather, you can under the light rain. If the weather is hot, then better
postpone the procedure until dew falls out.
If the autumn planting chrysanthemums in the ground there are difficulties,
then you can plant a sapling in a container. Choose a shallow but
spacious drawer. The root system of the plant lies closer to
soil surface does not require significant recess. Shoots
The shrubs are cut by 2/3 of the height. Pots with seedlings clean on
storage in the basement, where the temperature does not exceed +6 degrees. For all
storage time will require occasional watering of the plant, not allowing
dryness of earthy coma. Spring seedling with a lump of earth
placed in a permanent place.
How to get a landing material for autumn planting chrysanthemums
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Saplings of new varieties for planting purchased in the nursery or on
the market. But you can breed existing chrysanthemums
on their own. A shrub is well propagated by dividing a bush or
cuttings.
Division of the mother bush
During the autumn planting of chrysanthemums, it is possible to separate part from
adult plant. The resulting seedlings are planted in prepared
the holes. In the spring the bush starts to grow, and in the fall it is already blooming. Such
breeding method is considered the fastest and most effective.
Rejuvenation system plantations of chrysanthemums are carried out similarly.
Maternal bushes dig up and divide into parts, having rejected
only a core that looks unattractive. Rejuvenate
Planting chrysanthemums need at least 1 time in 2 years.
Autumn cuttings of chrysanthemum
If the stalk of a loved variety was purchased in the fall, then the landing
in the ground need to be postponed. Before the onset of frost, he will not have time
take root and die in winter. It is better to root the stalk in the container.
and save until spring in an unheated room.
At the first stage of rooting the pot with the plant is kept at
temperature not lower than 20 degrees. The soil should be wet but not
too raw. Rooting chrysanthemum lasts about two weeks.
After which the plant is transferred to storage in the basement. Spring sapling
sent to the flower bed.
Preparing chrysanthemums for winter
AT specialized books on crop advise
carry out autumn pruning of chrysanthemums after the withering away of the shoots. ATысота
scraps 15-20 cm above soil level. Then the plant
prepare for wintering.
Despite the frost resistance of chrysanthemums, it is still advisable
hold a shelter bushes. In late autumn, saplings are mulched with straw,
sawdust and spruce. Old chrysanthemum bushes harbor a few
otherwise. The fact is that in the development process the root system
The bush rises to the surface of the soil and becomes bare. therefore
mulching starts with a layer of fertile soil — peat, and
then they bring straw, foliage, and spruce branches.
Experienced gardeners grow chrysanthemums without autumn pruning. how
practice shows, low pruning leads to wet stems
under a thick layer of snow. Through the holes in the shoots moisture
seeps into the stem and leads to the death of the roots. Bushes
prepare for the winter in the usual way, and pruning shoots spend
in the spring.
Chrysanthemum Growing Tips
1. Chrysanthemum loves moisture, but dies from stagnant water at the roots.
The plant is watered moderately, not allowing the earthen coma to dry.
Irrigation regime increase only in drought.
2. For full flowering shrub fed
complex mineral fertilizers. Nitrogen supplements contribute
only in the first months of the growing season, in autumn the chrysanthemum is fed up
phosphate fertilizers.
3. Mulching – an important procedure for the care of chrysanthemum.
A layer of mulch will save the plant from the heat, protecting the roots from drying out,
and in the winter serves as a shelter from frost. The best material for
mulch serve as sawdust, straw or bark.
4. Most often chrysanthemums suffer from putrid diseases. it
occurs due to inadequate care of the plant. Affected
shoots need to cut and burn.
5. Get rid of pests on the leaves of chrysanthemum will help
complex drugs and folk remedies. From spider mite
good helps infusion of garlic, which is sprayed with shrubs in
growth period.
Chrysanthemums are distinguished by their decorative and high
frost resistance. Some species are well preserved in
cut, others decorate the beds in bright colors until late autumn.