WHAT FLOWER, WHAT SOIL?

Most gardeners believe: the richer the soil is filled with organic matter, the better the flowers will grow on it. But is it? Or maybe different plants have their own preferences? Let's figure it out to take into account these nuances.

EACH FLOWER ITS OWN LAND

One thing unites them: all flowers love light soils. For example, sandy loam soils are considered the best for annuals. They pass moisture well and "breathe", and this provides the root system with rapid growth and prevents it from decay. It will be comfortable for asters, carnations and levkoy, as well as phloxes, peonies, delphiniums and irises.

On light loams, well filled with organic matter and microelements, snapdragons, biennial stock-rose, and zinnia grow well. Clematis, tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, lily feel good here.

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Medium loamy soils are preferred by gladioli, roses, verbena, lobelia, and also coreopsis.

Cornflower, Iberis, Lavater, Purslane and Escholzia are important for the soil to be light but skinny.

But marigolds, sweet peas and phlox prefer rich fertile soils with a high content of humus.

EXPLORING THE LANDING PLACE

If the site is of little use for growing flowers here, then the existing soil can be enriched, and only then the flower beds can be broken. For example, add clay, manure, peat, humus, compost, and lime to sandy soils. Due to these components, they will become more viscous and will be able to retain the organic substances that plants need.

To "lighten" clay soils, it is necessary to add sand, peat, sawdust, as well as manure and humus.

If you plan to sow seeds or plant seedlings of annual flowers, in the fall the soil is dug with a bayonet shovel to a depth of 20-25 cm. Perennials require deeper processing of -30-35 cm. In this case, the soil should not be broken, but only turned over.

Note

If there are a lot of stones in the garden, you need to dig holes and trenches, fill them with imported loose and rich soil and only then start planting flowers.

DON'T SPARE FLOWER FERTILIZER

When preparing a plot for a future flower garden, do not forget about fertilizers - organic and mineral. Manure, compost and peat are applied a month before planting.

Immediately before this operation, the soil is supplied with mineral fertilizers containing nitrogen. Moreover, each plant has its own requirements for pre-planting soil preparation. Dahlias are considered the most capricious in this regard - because of the poorly developed root system. These plants need excellent nutrition to grow abundant foliage and flower caps. Tall dahlias will delight you with their beauty if you add 90 g of complete mineral fertilizer per 1 sq. m, and for undersized, at least 50 is required.

Carnations, asters and levkoi, as well as phlox and gladioli are very responsive to good soil. For these plants, no more than 60 g of the same fertilizers per 1 sq. m.

WHICH FLOWERS LIKE SURFACE SOIL?

For many flowers, soil acidity (pH) is also important. Most of them prefer neutral lands. The more acidic soil is needed for rhododendrons and carnations. At the same time, primrose, aquilegia, and the catchment do not tolerate liming of the soil.

It is clear that this indicator can be influenced by the introduction of mineral fertilizers into the soil. An acidic soil that is not suitable for growing flowers can be improved. For this, the soil is fertilized with sodium nitrate, bone meal, as well as slaked and quicklime. For strongly alkaline soils, manure, ammonium sulfate and superphosphate are suitable.

We also recommend reading: How to find out the acidity of the soil at home: methods and means

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Anastasia ZLATOVLASOVA, Stary Oskol.
15/04/2021 (16:10) #

Once I saw a green rug covered with colorful flowers on a city flower bed, I was looking for similar ones for a long time. Finally, I found out that this is a decorative purslane, and bought a bag of seeds. They turned out to be so small that they had to be sown, like petunias in a container, over the snow scattered on the soil (in early March).

She covered the containers with foil and put them on the windowsill. When the first shoots appeared, I removed the shelter. With a seedling height of 5 cm, I pinched off their tops to form lush bushes. With the onset of warmth, she planted matured and pre-hardened plants in a sunny place at a distance of 10-15 cm from each other (needle-like shoots grow in all directions). Watered as the soil dries up, and when they have taken root, reduced the moisture charge to a minimum.
Since then, for many years I have been pleased with the bright, lush, "long-playing" purslane rug. In the fall, I knead the ripe seed pods with my fingers over the empty places on the site. And in early spring, as soon as the snow melts, I slightly loosen the earth here, sprinkling it with wood ash and nitroammofoska granules (0,5 l and 50 g / mXNUMX).
Design Ideas
This annual can be used both to decorate the front row of a flower bed or an alpine slide, or grow in hanging pots, tubs, balcony and window boxes.
Purslane is a worthy alternative to the lawn: it does not need to be mowed, it is not subject to trampling, since it quickly restores its shape due to moisture, like any succulent.