Phlox fade? I am in a hurry to feed, and the next year the bush is brighter, larger and more luxuriant. The mother-in-law is jealous, and the neighbors cut off
Do you want to have fragrant phlox flowers in your flower bed, blooming as if not in yourself? Then fiery fireworks, fellow gardener and connoisseur of beauty! Today on the agenda - 2 options for the most important feeding of phlox after flowering, on which, which, at first glance is very strange, depends on the beauty of the plant next year.
Phlox and I have a tender friendship. Since then, as I began to do 3 dressings per season, the bushes grow more and more every year, and bloom more abundantly. Several varieties are planted on the street side of the fence and are regularly raided by their neighbors in the village, damn scoundrels! But there are so many flowers that the appearance of phlox does not suffer at all.
Why did I come to such a life - to feed phloxes after flowering
This is our human life, for the most part looks like chaotic and illogical throwing. Plants don't have this kind of nonsense. Their life cycle is strictly ordered. After flowering, phloxes begin to prepare for winter.. But I got philosophized after kvass, let's get down to business.
And it's time to give top dressing so that:
- Replenish soil resource, which the plant has died for the current flowering. Let the phlox not starve before winter, but calmly prepare for a snowy hibernation.
- Help the roots to ripen before long cold weather. If they turn out to be weakened, they will partially freeze out. And there is no need to talk about the splendor of the bush next year.
Note to a friend: Pompous foreign varieties, in whose genes everything is mixed, are especially in need of feeding. Unfortunately, they often take from their "parents" not only unconditional decorative characteristics, but also capriciousness - including the need to eat a lot and often.
Phlox, having received enough food, will survive the winter with dignity. He will be busy resting, not surviving; therefore it will bloom profusely next year. A healthy root system will help the bush grow well.
How to feed phlox after flowering: 2 options - with and without chemistry
My mother-in-law feeds flowers only with manure fertilizer (and I quite understand where the legs of this preference grow from). This is probably why she gasps and gasps every time she comes to visit us and admires the phlox.
But he still ignores the information that manure is a horse's amount of nitrogen, which at the end of summer phlox neither to the village nor to the city. It needs potassium to complete its annual cycle in a worthy manner. And here I have 2 options.
Feeding phlox with natural fertilizer in August
If you, comrade, like my mother-in-law, believe: "Chemical fertilizers are harmful nitrates! And F1 hybrids are American GMO! " We are not interested in coal, but ashes, that is, wood ash.
Of course, you can just lightly cover the organic matter in the flower bed and spill it with water. But I advise you to act with confidence: make feeding with an ash solution, which will start working immediately after watering.
- For 1 bucket with a volume of 10 liters, take 2 glasses of wood ash.
- Insist for a week.
- Stir and pat the phlox on the damp ground.
Congratulations! You are awesome. And phlox fed, and chemistry was not used. However, the second option is much more effective.
The best "August" fertilizer for phlox
Top dressing with ash is a half measure. To do it rationally, only if you are guided by the idea "Better this way than nothing." A complete nutrition of phlox will provide a complex mineral fertilizer with trace elements.
Fortunately, the agricultural industry has made some headway. We, comrades, no longer need to mix phosphorus and potash fertilizers on our own, or vice versa. Don't play alchemist: just buy a ready-made product in the store marked "Autumn". Fortunately, their choice is great, and the price is affordable. Here are some offhand options:
I advise you to pay attention to the presence of trace elements in the composition. We hardly add them separately, and the plant's need for them does not decrease from this.
Do you like sniffing phlox and was this article helpful? Press, comrade, "Thumbs up"! Sincerely yours, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin from the village of Perkhushkovo, who does not believe in the tricks of American GMOs.