Work in the flower garden in March - what must be done?
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What to do in the flower garden in March
Experienced summer gardener-florist already in the snow-covered March knows how to take care that in due time flower beds and flower beds would gladden the eye with their magnificent flowering.
It’s a hot sowing season when perennials (delphinium, cloves, perennial cornflowers, ruffle) are sown to obtain seedlings. March is the time of sowing seedlings of the so-called long annuals: petunias, snapdragons, mesibriantemum, cineraria, salvia.
1. Tubers and bulbs
It's time to start sprouting tuberous begonias. Place the tubers in the potting cups without completely filling them. Place in a light, cool place, moisten as it dries. Check out gladioli corms. Free them from old roots and scales. Be careful not to break the sprouts! Cut out the places damaged by gray rot, disinfecting the instrument, cover the sections with brilliant green. Dried corms will have to be thrown away, spread healthy ones before planting in a bright cool place, occasionally spraying.
2. Additional fertilizing
Melt water, seeping into the upper layers of the soil, awakens to life the bulbs hidden in it and the rhizomes of perennials. In March, these plants need nutrients more than ever, especially in nitrogen. Sprinkle over the melting snow urea or ammonium nitrate, even better nitroammofosku, for an incomplete handful of one square meter.
3. Awakening of Roses
Remove snow from cover over
roses: melting in the afternoon and freezing at night, water damages the roots and stems, causing irreparable damage. Conduct drainage works on plantings, and in the lower part of the shelter make venting for ventilation. Dry cold to roses is not terrible. At the end of the month, depending on the weather, the upper part of the shelter can be removed, but the bushes themselves are too early to open.
4. Seed preparation
Before sowing, the seeds are dipped in salted water
and the pop ups are discarded. Seeded seeds are washed, slightly dried and sown
on the moistened surface of the soil, sprinkling with a thin layer. The soil for sowing should be light (2 of turf ground + 1 fine sand), before sowing it is shed with a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
5. We store water
High snow drifts are desirable to break and scatter, from the most shady areas a part of the snow is removed. By the end of March, do not forget to fill the barrels with snow, trying to put it as high as possible. To freeze water did not tear the barrel, insert into it a thick long wooden stick. So you provide yourself with a supply of useful thawed water.
6. Chrysanthemum cuttings
Take off the cuttings from the queen cells of Korean chrysanthemums. The upper part of the root canopy is used. Cut at an angle, cuttings length 5-6 cm with 4-5 interstices. Before planting cuttings are lowered to 15 min in manganese. Layers of turf, humus and sand are covered in the piquatory box. Twice a day watered and pritenyayut. At 16-18 ° C the cuttings take root through 18-20 days. Rooted cuttings are transplanted into pots with fertile soil.
Seeds with a dense skin (many legumes) need scarification. To do this, a jar with a tight lid is lined with sandpaper, seeds are poured out and shaken, a seed coat breaks. For stratification (low temperature treatment), the seeds are mixed with moistened sand (1: 2) and kept for several days in the heat (before swelling). Then they are placed in a plastic bag and placed on the 10-12 days in a refrigerator (do not blot out!). Stratification needs: bathing-house, gypsophila.
WHAT TO DO IN MARCH IN THE FLOWER BOARD - FLOWER TIPS
MARCH CHALLENGES IN THE FLOWER BOARD
Here we are waiting for the new season. On the threshold of spring, it is important to support your beloved garden and help it cope with certain difficulties. We also do not forget that the work on sowing seeds is actively continuing. And it's time to cut the flower cells saved from last year.
We ventilate
Under shelters for heat-loving crops (large-leaved hydrangea, deutsia, holly, etc.), condensate forms, which leads to the development of rot. To avoid this, at a long positive temperature, regularly ventilate the shelter: during the day, open it from the ends for several hours.
If straw or sawdust was used to protect plants for the winter, check their condition. These materials get wet during the melting of snow or rain and subsequently begin to rot. To prevent this from happening, replace the wet filler with a dry one.
Breaking the ice crust
The frost that came after the thaw turns the melt water into ice, and a continuous ice crust forms on the surface of the soil. It prevents the flow of oxygen to the roots. So that the plants do not suffocate and die, destroy the ice layer (with a pitchfork, shovel) immediately after its formation.
Removing melt water
In some plants, the root neck in conditions of high humidity may scorch. To avoid trouble, during the thaw, dig grooves along which melt water will escape from the root collar and roots. To divert water, if it does not come down for a long time, it is also necessary from flower beds with perennials.
Working with seeds
It's time to lay perennial seeds (astrantia, gentian, bathing suit, backache, etc.) for 1-2-month stratification. A conventional refrigerator is suitable for cooling crops. The seeds are pre-soaked for swelling in clean cold boiled water. Then they are sown in a container and put in the refrigerator. As soon as shoots appear, the container is rearranged on a light windowsill.
At the beginning of the month, it is not too late to sow flower seeds with a long development period for seedlings (bacopa, caliberhoa, kobeya, petunia, salvia, later - fragrant tobacco, annual phlox, ageratum, alyssum, sweet pea, osteosper mum, lobelia).
We cut queen cells
In February, new shoots appear on wintering mother plants (pelargonium, petunia, chrysanthemum, fuchsia). Containers with plants are placed in a bright place and waiting for the branches to grow by 5-6 cm. Then the cuttings are cut with a clean sharp knife and planted in a separate container. Build a greenhouse. Monitor the humidity, periodically ventilate. When new growth appears, the shelter can be removed, the seedlings transplanted into more nutritious soil and pinch the tops.
LUNAR CALENDAR FOR MARCH
TYPES OF JOBS | BETTER DAYS |
Watering of seedlings | 1-3, 19-21, 28-31 |
Feeding seedlings by leaves | 1-3 |
Inspection of stored seeds, bulbs and flower rhizomes | 8-11 |
Removal of winter shelter from heat-loving | 8-11 Years, 17-19 Years |
Preventive spraying of the garden against diseases and pests | 13-14 |
Preparation of soil for growing seedlings | 16-17 |
Seedling of seedlings | 23-26 |
Sowing seedlings of annual seeds | 26-28 |
Unfavorable days for work: 7, 15, 17-19 (sowing, planting, transplanting), 21, 29 (sowing and planting) |
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To already by the end of April to please their home fresh greens, get rid of snow and "warm" beds at the end of February. For this, I mix peat and wood ash in equal parts.
Plentifully sprinkle with the mixture selected area and tightly cover with black film. As a result, already at the end of March and beginning of April, seeds of lettuce, dill, radish and other early-ripening vegetables are sown on a warmed bed.
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5 important cases in the flower garden
As soon as the snow comes down, I hasten to put the front garden in order. I will highlight some of the most important procedures.
1. On the perimeter of the flower garden, you need to dig a groove to drain excess moisture, otherwise perennial roots may get wet.
2. Release the plants from winter shelters so that they do not run up. Rip the mulch, loosen the soil
compost on a bucket for 1 square. m, potassium sulfate and superphosphate - 30-50 g per 1 square. m
3. Raise on the trellis weaving perennials.
4. At the end of April, plant sprouts of daisies, violas. Sow poppies.
5. Sow under the greenhouse petunia, bells, carnations, primroses, delphinium and tobacco.
Ulyana