Beautiful flower beds fill the garden areabright colors. Flowers take the most honorable place. Particular attention deserve bulbous plants, the magnificence of which is surprisingly combined with the simplicity of cultivation.
Iris family has manyplants of incomparable beauty. A popular representative of this family are gladioli, or skewers. The perennial bulbous plant has been known for a long time and has a rich history. The natural habitat of growth is the tropics and subtropics of Europe, Asia and Africa. Skopzhniki differ in a variety of forms. There are tens of thousands of varieties of garden gladioli and at least two hundred natural species.
Грациозное длинное растение имеет вертикальные stems. Its height is from fifty centimeters to one and a half meters. Hard leaves, the length of which reaches eighty centimeters, like a sharp blade of a sword, rush upwards. Voronkovidnye flowers have a different color and shape. Spike inflorescence can be quite dense or loose.
To grow a full-fledged gladiolus, whichwill be pleased with abundant and beautiful flowering, you must follow certain rules of agricultural engineering. Skewers - moisture-loving and heat-loving plants. For planting bulbs important point is the choice of the site. Gladiolus will be powerful and healthy in a well-lit area, protected from wind and drafts. With poor lighting plants strongly drawn out and poorly bloom. Normal flower development is ensured by soil fertility. The most suitable type is black soil or light loamy soil. When planting it will be useful complex fertilizers. They are added to the well under each plant.
Gladiolus - vigorous flowers.The question arises: how to grow gladiolus, so that the stem is stable and does not break? Proper planting depth will contribute to the stable fixation of the plant in the ground. After choosing a site for a flower bed and preparing the soil, the corms ready for planting are sorted by size.
Large corms deepen by tencentimeters, average - by five to seven. Small bulbs - kids - land at a depth of two to three centimeters. The distance between the holes is from five to fifteen centimeters (depending on the size of the planting material).
Bulb flowers can be found not only incomposition of garden flower beds. Skopzhniki settle sometimes in the most unexpected places. Growing gladiolus in the open field is not the only possible option of planting onion flowers. In the conditions of artificial soil, they will decorate any interior. But before you grow a gladiolus, you need to solve a number of issues. First of all, you need to choose the capacity in which the flowers will grow.
Unusual spectacle - gladioli on a residential windowthe premises. How to grow gladiolus in a pot so that it is healthy and fully developed and blossomed? At home, small-flowered and miniature varieties of skewers will be more suitable. They have a stalk height of thirty to fifty centimeters. The root system of flowers of these varieties is less powerful. The choice of a suitable container has already been mentioned.
Decorative design of balconies and loggiasimpossible without flowers. For this purpose, you can use bulbous plants. When choosing varieties, preference is given to gladioli with a small stem height. In order to organize a miniature flower garden, select suitable containers. In this case, you can use containers of required sizes.
Florists are selected on the same principle, whichused when choosing pots for growing gladioli. They must have a volume of at least fifteen liters. Usually on balconies or loggias, large containers are used in which more plants can be planted than in pots used for indoor cultivation.
How to grow gladioli from bulbs toto ensure normal water balance? Containers must have openings for outflow of water. Before filling them with soil mixture, drainage material is placed on the bottom. The soil should be quite fertile. At home, you can use the purchase of universal light peat soils for growing flower crops.
Before you grow a gladiolus on the window orbalcony, should examine the conditions of planting and content of these flowers. In open ground, gladioli are planted at a soil temperature of at least ten degrees Celsius. In the conditions of a closed ground, skewers begin to land from mid-April.
When choosing a location for pots andContainers on the windowsill, balcony or loggia should take into account the fact that gladioli are heat-loving and light-loving plants. Containers with flowers placed in well-lit places. Plants do not tolerate drafts and low air temperature. When grown on a balcony, you need to monitor the temperature. When cooling to ten degrees Celsius containers temporarily enter the premises.
Первые всходы появляются через две или три недели after landing. At this time it is important to ensure the proper moistening of flowers. A lack of moisture will necessarily affect the growth of the plant. It will be weak and will lose its decorative form. Provide moderate watering, not allowing waterlogging. Moisture retention can be achieved by mulching with peat. At the same time, it will serve as an additional feeding of the plant. Attention should also be paid to air exchange. The soil in the tank is constantly loosened, thereby providing air access to the root system of the gladiolus.
The next important point - feeding gladioli. In the conditions of closed ground can not do without them. How to grow flowers to ensure adequate diet?
Terms of dressings are as follows:
The next part of agrotechnical measures atcultivating gladiolus at home is a preventive technique. In greenhouse conditions, plants grow much weaker than flowers grown in garden flower gardens.
How to grow gladiolus from bulbs in pots andcontainers to prevent the disease of flowers? First of all, you should use a healthy planting material that is disinfected for thirty minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate before planting. 0.5 grams of potassium permanganate is enough to make it per liter of water. During the period of growth, they control the state of flowers and carry out the necessary preventive measures.
Cleaning of gladioli in the open fieldproduced in late September and early October. Corm matures in four weeks after cessation of flowering. In greenhouse conditions, the flowering period lasts a little longer. The terms of cleaning at the same time, respectively, are shifted. When cleaning plants completely dug out of the ground. After that, they are dried and cut the stems.
The bulbs are cleaned and rinsed with water.Then they are kept in a solution of potassium permanganate and then dried well. Next, remove the old bulbs and root system. The final stage is thorough drying, which will last up to fourteen days.
Хранить луковицы гладиолусов необходимо в сухом indoors at a temperature of three to eight degrees Celsius. At home, gladioli can be stored in paper bags or cardboard boxes, placing them on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
Apply several methods of reproduction - seeds and small onion-kids. The latter method is more common. How to grow gladiolus from babies?
Klubnevochki - excellent material for reproductionskewer. Babies are formed on the main bulb. They are small in size. In order to accelerate the flowering of this planting material, in March it is sown in containers. Sowing depth is from two to three centimeters. Baby gladiolus will grow in a container until September. Caring for plants is the same as for flowers grown from large corms. At the end of the season, the baby increases in size to three centimeters. Next season, these corms will be an excellent planting material for high-grade flowering plants.
