How to prepare for winter phlox: will be even more beautiful

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Do you love phlox as I love them? They perfectly all: the flowers, and smell, and size. And take care of the phlox is necessary literally to late autumn, inclusive.

Think about it: The plant has tried, blossomed and pleased us... we must reward! And with agro-technical point of view: Phlox spent a lot of nutrients, may have time to be ill, and will soon begin to prepare for winter. Our task - to make up for the shortcomings of the conditions and remove all unnecessary! Article will help you understand what's what 🧚♀

If phlox "sick" - will restore the patient

Critically examine the bush: Determine whether there are signs of the presence of diseases and pests. Care struck a bush is different from Health Care. To attack is not confused all the cards, it is important to know how to look alarming symptoms.

It is a mistake to think that the treatment of color in the garden can be postponed until next year. Not all pests, bacteria and fungi will die after the cold winter. Most can be preserved under the top layer of soil, with the first heat to spread across a bed, and in the spring a short-sighted gardener got a problem in the cube.

What to do? The main thing is not to do nothing. First we need to determine what the trouble occurred with plants. And take measures according to the "diagnosis":

This necrotic spotting phlox. Unfortunately, if you write about all the "scourge", visiting our flowers, not enough even a whole article

• Root infections and pests (e.g., nematodes) may require transplantation with processing of the entire root system.
• Viral diseases phlox does not usually respond to treatment - must soon destroy the bush, until the infected neighbors.
• Treatment groups of communicable diseases and infection by pests aboveground parts assume full or partial crop stalks with leaves. All the affected are removed, and the rest - are treated with special preparations according to the instructions.

For example, I believe the best remedy for mildew baking soda Of course not, fungicide "Topaz".

Autumn feast for floksariya

Autumn feeding - is potassium and phosphorus, but no nitrogen (a la mullein). Optimal Layout: Potassium-magnesium + superphosphate for instructions. You can take their analogues. The main thing that fertilizer were potassium and phosphorus.

You can use any complex fertilizers marked "Autumn": there is already balanced composition. It is better to give preference to the means in which there are also trace elements: iron, manganese, boron and others.

Here is an example of an "ideal" fertilizing:

"Perfect," I took in quotes because you can find your best option. The company is not so important. The main thing - a similar composition and effectiveness. But for the "Kemira" / "foppish" I can vouch, because for several years I use them (This is the same).

Pruning, shelter... whether it is necessary or you can leave it as it is

Phlox should be cut: Dry leaves are harvested infection, and sticking out of the snow sticks do not look very attractive. But we should not do this immediately after flowering, as some sites. Why stop the photosynthesis process and try to get to sleep by force phlox?

I crop the phlox in early October, about a month before the "winter" weather. In cold, cloudy and humid conditions of the leaves still no proc.

Coli leave a height of about 10 cm. They will delay the snow, which will create an additional safety cushion against low temperatures. In the spring it will be easier to figure out who is who in the flowerbed 👀

Phlox - sufficiently hardy flowers. Practice has shown that they are more likely spreyut under cover than lost due to frost (talking about the Middle band). To be sure, you can zamulchirovat humus roots. And if you live in a region with a super-cold winters or the cold hit, and little snow - Throw on a couple of sprigs of pine phlox lapnika, and on top - snow. Love phlox and the article was interesting? Please click the "Thumbs up" in response 👍