Flower bed life after fusarium
There are always fusaria in the soil. Both harmful and useful. Those in question prefer dead plant parts. So lazy and weak.
From a good life (with damp coolness) they readily reproduce. And sometimes they face a banal hunger. There is nothing.
So last season, our Fusarians from hunger have bothered to eat asters. First, they ate those that were weaker, then the rest. We ate some cleomes and chrysanthemum leaves.
What to do if the illness comes unexpectedly
- Some advise burning diseased plants, making a fire in the place where fusarium raged. We burned sick asters, but a fire as big as the affected area will not work. Yes, and I do not like fiery methods.
- Others advise putting hay so that the fusarians have food. And so that their natural enemies, the mushrooms, would eat the fusarians themselves. Last year we did not have enough hay for a flower bed.
- Well, advice - chemistry, copper... Alas, it was used at the end last year. HOM, in particular. He did not make the land healthy and free, although he probably improved the situation.
What to do next year
Something has been done this season, including putting hay when planting seedlings for the most beloved ones.
Not everything turned out as expected. First I will write about other colors, and then separately about marigolds and calendula, this is the most interesting thing. We decided to improve the health of the most affected by the fungal infection section of the flower bed.
- We noticed that snapdragon suffers least of all from Fusarium, planted more of it, plus there was a lot of self-seeding.
- Astra Mamina Joy, according to our observations, is resistant to fusarium, although it bloomed, the leaves got sick.
- The petunias felt good. They, too, do not lend themselves to fusarians.
- Chrysanthemums are sick
- Now the most surprising thing. They planted the rejected marigolds with seedlings and sowed different varieties of calendula in the most hottest places. The marigolds soon faded. And the calendula won:
Look at the calendula in mid-November! Fusarium? Did not hear!
These are the varieties sown:
It remains to put hay, and the healing of the calendula soil has already begun. The marigolds in the most sinister place did not cope. Hay in the worst place was not placed on either calendula or marigolds, so the victory of calendula is unambiguous.
Calendula - yes!
Marigolds - no!
In more favorable places, where Mom's aster was ill, marigolds bloomed well. Maybe because they planted hay.
Conclusion: hay, calendula and snapdragon with petunias help well against fusarium.
Have you ever had fusarium disease? Please share what you did?
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