Sow asters correctly. Plant Care

Asters are loved by many gardeners. It is popular among the flowers of annuals. To asters pleased lush flowering, you need to take care of the correct planting and care.

Features

Asters are tall, medium and low-growing. The first type is usually planted in the background and a small plant height often used as a curb cultures. Average height asters look great in any part of the flower beds.

Also, these plants differ in timing of flowering. Divided into early (95-115 days), medium (115-125 days), late (125-138 days). Therefore, the latest sown before all (mid-March), so they have time to grow and make.

Germination of asters is stored up to two years. In the second year seedlings appear only for 20-30 percent.

Astra - cold-resistant culture, so used and podzimny seeding (such plants grow more healthy and strong). In early April you can sow the seeds for seedlings in the greenhouse polycarbonate.

How to plant seedlings

Aster seeds can often be a source of infection of various infections, including Fusarium. Therefore, before planting the seed is desired to disinfect a potassium permanganate solution and dried.

Next, you need to prepare a fertile soil, suitable and universal from the store. It must be ignited in the oven for a few minutes in order to avoid any contamination by bacteria and fungi.

The soil should be leveled in a container prihlopnuv palms. Pour the soil and wait until the water is absorbed. Then scatter the seeds on the soil surface. You can sow thickly, in a chaotic manner. Cover sand 1-2 mm or a layer of the same soil through a sieve. Kill crops and a little sprinkle.

Cover with a plastic bag or glass. Every day, ventilate the crops from the resulting condensate. Temperature for sprouting - + 20- + 22 degrees. Postemergence (after 3-7 days) is required to remove the film, the temperature must be lowered slightly to the plant did not grow (not lower than 8 degrees).

Care of seedlings

Picks produce, as soon as the first leaf appears. Plants are planted at a distance of 5-7 cm from each other, if the dive in one box. After this procedure, after 10 days aster fed mineral complex fertilizer (10 grams of material in a bucket of water), or liquid solution vermicompost "Ideal".

Before planting for 1-2 weeks in an open ground the seedlings should be tempered, bringing it out into the street for a couple of hours, and in recent days, and can be left in the greenhouse at night.

Landing in the open ground

At the time of the landing of plants in the exhaust gas reaches a height of 7-10 cm asters. Landing in a flower bed is held in the middle and the end of May in a well-fertilized and loose soil. In this case, the land must be dug to a depth of 25-30 cm. From fertilizers make humus, ash and compost, but not fresh manure. Aster can not stand it and get sick. This will start the development of the green mass, and flowering and can not wait.

Asters like a consolidated space, so planting them too close together can not be another:

High grade - 20-25 cm distance between plants;

Low grade - 10-15 cm.

When landing asters rows, row spacing distance should be at least 60 cm. Recommend planting the seedlings in the evening, that increase the survival rate. On hot days, the first time after planting, the plants pritenyayut.

Asters planted in the ground begin to bloom for 20-25 days later than the sprouts, but the blooms will last longer.

Care

During the season, spend a few feedings.

The first fertilization - after rooting, after 14 days. Fertilize immediately after watering complex mineral fertilizer or mullein (consumption water - 1 to 10).

The second top dressing - after 2 weeks. Applied ammonium nitrate (25g), superphosphate (60 g) and potassium sulfate (15 g) per 1 m2.

A third top dressing (in budding phase) - introduce phosphorus and potash fertilizers, thus increasing their rates - 60 c. superphosphate and 60 g of potassium sulfate per 1 m2.

Also during summer loosened earth and planting weed. Watering is carried out, as drying of the soil. On hot days, it turns out more often.

Blooming continues until frost.

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