Care after flowering lilies, which will make the flowers more beautiful next year

You want to lily pleased with lush flowering next year? It is important to properly care for them in this.

Like all bulbs, just after flowering lily it lays the foundation for the next. Only if in the first half of the season "focus" is on the development of the aerial part (stem growth, leaf, and of course, gorgeous flowers), the second moves underground. To myself I call it "feeds the bulb."

This year, a real extravaganza happened lilies in my garden! You can see in the photo how unison blossomed this wonderful (and very grateful!) Plants. I do not know a coincidence or not, but it was last year, I started to look after them. So I'll write what information about the care of the lilies bloom after I read and what I use at your favorite garden itself.

How to elevate faded lily?

More recently, flowering bushes were bright area heroes. And after flowering are... a very sad sight. In part to help the removal of faded flowers.

This has practical benefits. If you do not remove the seed pods, the plant decides to give birth seeds. At that wasted nutrients. Let the better they zapasutsya in the bulb or plant will give children - from the second practical benefit far more than from unpromising seed.

Taking care of lily after flowering

Leave a lily at the mercy of the weather is not worth it. It is only at first glance it seems that the life of the flower began to fade. In fact, it actively goes on, slowly starting to prepare for the winter. However, under the ground.

I water lilies in dry weather. Pour the flower is not worth to avoid unpleasant rotting bulbs. Periodically weeded flower (well this fad I had become a habit - the excesses of the weeds in my garden I do not have it, I like everything to be neat).

lilies fertilizing

I always bought up on fertilizing flowers - and the garden and home. The main thing to know that someone to taste. And when! After all, as they say, a spoon for dinner good.

After flowering lily can not fertilize with nitrogen fertilizers! So she starts to drive the leaves, which are the laws of nature must now slowly fading. And the flower can not properly prepare for the winter.

Separately write that manure / poultry manure lilies is not suitable in any way. Fresh general fertilize bulbs is not necessary - the burn may appear on the bulbs.

I fertilize lily 2 times:

• "NPK" at once after flowering: it is, and nitrogen, and phosphorus, and potassium in equal shares. To fill in the bulb stock macrocells that have been spent over the spring and summer.
• After 2 weeks - potash fertilizer. The best choice to fall! You can buy granulated "Autumn", which still have and useful trace elements: manganese, iron, zinc or others.

pruning

Immediately after flowering, cut the ground part lilies can not! The leaves have nutrients that should go into the bulb. Therefore, the stalks are cut only after the natural decay.

First I are cut off, leaving a stump of 10 cm. Then, by the fall, he softened and easily unscrewed.

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