Personal experience of growing gladioli

Nature has put in people's love of beautiful colors. Gladioli - it's wonderful flowers that are grown almost all growers. Consider the features of cultivation of this plant.

What should be done before planting

A month before planting the bulbs need to get to the basement and inspect closely. If there is rot, they need to clean up the knife and the wound surface to cover with green paint. It should also be planting material to handle fungicide or a solution of potassium permanganate. Next, leave in a warm room, appeared to sprout.

Place for planting

Gladioli like loose, breathable, fertile and well-lit areas.

How to plant

I corms are planted in special boxes (you can use the plastic boxes with the store). He dug a hole where the box is placed. The edges of the containers must be at ground level or slightly below. Potting soil, which is entered in the box consists of compost, peat, sand and earth in equal parts. Need to make the hole depth of 10 cm and planted gladioli.

The distance between the bulbs - 10 cm. After gladioli planted, sprinkle with mustard powder to protect the bulbs from pests and rodents. Then the bulbs are covered with earth and mulch of rotted sawdust. After that, the planting should be well watered from a watering can.

Care

Care is weeding, watering, fertilizing and hoeing. But thanks to the mulching of weeds grows a little, and also have to loosen a bit. The first watering is necessary to make 2 weeks after planting if there is no rain. And in the future at least once a week to shed.

Often noticeable that not all gladioli develop evenly. When the leaf 3 is formed, it is necessary to feed the plant with nitrogen fertilizers (but it is better to use complex fertilizers with nitrogen predominance). When you see the 5-7 leaflets, carried out following fertilization. For this purpose, urea (20 g per 10 liters of water) and potassium sulfate (25 g in 10 liters water). Before each fertilizing the soil with plain water spills and loose.

In early August, held the third and final dressing of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. When flowering gladioli plants often bend to the ground, so you need to come up to his support. Gladiolus bloom almost the entire August-September, depending on the variety.

For information on how to remove and store gladiolus, can be read in this article.

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