Peonies faded? The feed to bloom magnificently in the next year

June Hello to all fans of peonies!

Many gardeners are fertilizing perennials philosophically: "Why do they fertilize, and if so in bloom?". I in no way want to write, that is - is wrong, and its publication does not aim to get readers to do differently. Each decides how to take care of the flowerbed.

But there are certain standards of agricultural technology pions. Not strict regulations, namely recommendations: how to care for garden plants, relying on its natural cycles. Following the advice helps get exemplary bloom every year for decades.

Why feed peonies after flowering

It would seem: peony withered, it means "calm down" and you can stop paying attention to the bush. Until next year. But there is a small nuance.

Peony lays the kidneys resuming (the ones that will go to growth for the next year) in the current season. That is how things go now, after flowering, the state of the bush depends on the following year. Agree, a good reason to make fertilizer as needed!

What kind of fertilizer to use?

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Generally speaking, after flowering peony need phosphorus and potassium. Recommendation for plants at the age of 3 years: younger bushes can take nutrients from the not yet depleted soil.

Recipe "ideal" fertilizing after flowering peony identical in all authors of books about the agricultural techniques of the plant: 15-20 g of phosphorus and 10-15 g of potassium:

The third feeding give 2 weeks after flowering: 15-20 g of phosphorus 10-15 g potassium. It stimulates the formation of new large-scale renewal of the kidney. Usually combined with watering fertilizing

Source: M. FROM. Assumption, "Peony".

In practice, you can take advantage of the complex and a mineral block "for flowering" in pellet or as an ingredient for the solution, which is dominated by phosphorus and potassium. The main thing is that the plant will get them! Love peonies and the article was useful? Please, click in response to "Thumbs up!" Thanks. Also I suggest reading: How to feed phlox in the garden to bloom abundantly