Tip 1: Freesia: growing conditions, planting and care
Tip 1: Freesia: growing conditions, planting and care
Freesia is an onion plant that can be grown at home and in the garden.
Growth conditions
To grow freesia, it must be provided with bright light for 12 hours every day. Complete absence of drafts. The soil must be picked loose with gooddrainage system. The best soil for growing freesias will be a mixture of peat, leaf, humus and turf in equal proportions, with weak acidity.
To obtain abundant flowering, the required temperature is not more than 22 ° C, moistened air, you need to spray plants carefully, without getting water on the flowers. Changing the temperature to colder and hot leads to a change in the shape of the flower and the appearance of empty buds.
Landing
Plant freesia in the middle of May in the open ground.
- It is necessary to prepare wells 6 cm deep. For large bulbs at a distance of 5 cm, and small 3 cm. Leave a distance between rows of 15 cm.
- Then put the freesia bulbs in the holes. Sprinkle with earth or peat.
- Soil must be covered.
- Abundantly watered.
Care
- During the growth of freesia it is necessary to feed, every month twice with superphosphate and potassium salt.
- The soil must be loosened and weeded.
- During growth and flowering regular copious watering is necessary, so that the soil is always moist. Gradually watering must be reduced.
- It is necessary to spray freesia in the evening.
Tip 2: How to grow spring flowers at home
Spring flowers always please us with their gentlepaints and a light aroma. And if the winter cold outside the window, and you have on the windowsill a whole small flower bed of primroses in one pot, then in winter you are provided with a spring mood.
If you want to get spring bloomingbulbous for the New Year's holiday and Christmas, it is necessary to prepare bulbs for winter distillation in September. In the store, buy fresh bulbs from the new autumn collection. You will find crocuses, tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, freesias and bulbous irises.
When buying, pay attention to the bulbs. They should be large and healthy, without damage. After you have selected the bulbs, wrap each bulb in a newspaper and place it in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf. In a cold place, they should be 2-4 weeks. The larger the bulb, the more time it takes to "cool" the rest.
In early November, we begin to plant bulbs inpots. Choose low capacity with large drainage holes. Decoratively look like the baskets of a basket or wide low vases. It is best to plant a few bulbs, the distance between the bulbs 1 cm.
Soil for indoor colors to mix with sand andspecial fertilizers in granules. The bulbs are planted vertically, slightly pressing into the ground, and covered with earth almost to the top, and large ones by 2/3. After planting, the bulbs are well spilled with water with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Place the containers in a shaded cool place. Watch for moistening the soil, but do not overflow the bulbs. After the appearance of the first green sprouts, transfer the containers with the bulbs to a well-lit and warm place. With proper care buds usually appear after 4 weeks. For effective flowering, once a week you need to apply fertilizer to the soil.
