Digging and preparing for storing ranunculus in winter
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BEAUTIFUL RANUNCULUS - WINTER STORAGE
Buttercups bloom in my garden every year. There are already several varieties of this exotic plant in the collection.
The most important thing is to keep the ranunculus in the winter.
You can understand when to dig up ranunculus tubers by the foliage - it suddenly turns yellow. Many lovers of this flower start harvesting later, but then it is much more difficult to find nodules in the ground.
DIGGING AND PREPARATION FOR STORING RANUNCULUS BULBS
The first stage is cleaning the ranunculus from the flower bed. In the first year, having dug up a liter bucket of tubers of each variety, I left them overnight and planned to dry them further in open plastic containers. But in the morning I saw that the inside of the buckets were fogged up. Disorder - planting material will rot! I put the tubers in breathable paper sugar bags and left them to dry. Now I advise everyone to use paper bags or newspaper bags for storing ranun-couuls, since plastic and polyethylene are not suitable.
While the tubers are drying, I periodically check the bags: it is important that there is no earthy smell of rotten potatoes. The tubers should dry out and not rot.
This usually takes about ten days.
The second stage is cleaning from dried earth, dry roots, and remaining foliage. I peel each tuber with my hands from debris, at the same time I check for elasticity and remove everything that seems superfluous and suspicious to me.
I put only those in which I am sure for storage.
I am preparing a solution of the drug "Maksim Dachnik" (you can take any other fungicide you trust). I make the concentration a little more than indicated in the instructions: I use 1,5 packages for 2 liters of water.
Soak the tubers for 30 minutes. Then I leave them to dry overnight on the open veranda table. In the morning, I put clean and dry tubers in the same paper bags and in a shoebox with an air hole. In winter, this box is in the apartment in the far corner of the mezzanine.
CHECKING RANUNCULUS BULBS FOR SIMILARITY
On New Year's holidays, I check the condition of the tubers once. Don't be surprised at the appearance of the ranunculus stored in the apartment. Yes, they dry out, but that's okay. If you want, you can lay one nodule for germination in the substrate in the middle of winter and make sure that this "overdried squid" has not lost its germination.
But it is better to calmly wait for spring and start germinating two weeks before the expected (according to weather) planting in open ground. Each region will have its own term.
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© Author: Olga UVAROVA, Moscow
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Ranunculus does not bloom for two years. Before planting, I soak the nodules for a couple of hours in water with a few drops of Epin.
I plant it in an open, sunny place in light loam. After two weeks, seedlings appear, which turn into pretty green bushes. I feed it once a week with liquid fertilizer for open field flowers. But in mid-July, the foliage begins to turn yellow and by the beginning of August it dies off. At the end of the month, I dig out the nodules, dry them and store them in dry sand in the refrigerator in the vegetable compartment. What am I doing wrong?
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- You are probably growing Asiatic ranunculus or one of the hybrids of this plant. Try planting its rhizomes in a container in late March or early April and put it in a sunny place. By May, when the threat of frost has passed, transplant to open ground. If the soil is loamy, first add organic matter in a mixture with sand 3: 1 (no more than 1/5 of the soil volume) and dig it to a depth of 0,5 m.It is better to water in the evening and abundantly, and then again - after a day when the soil dries. Watering in the sun and heat (morning and afternoon) on leaves, especially young ones, is contraindicated - this will provoke sunburn.
I advise you not to overfeed. It is better for a plant when nutrients are supplied in moderation, then it stores them in the rhizome and blooms to give offspring. It is enough to add a solution of complex fertilizer for flowering crops once under the ranunculus when buds appear (according to the instructions). This will prolong flowering without accelerating the yellowing of the foliage, and the dormant period will come later.
Alexandra TURYGINA, landscape designer, Moscow