Many gardeners are afraid to carry out division of bushes of peony that it has not ceased to blossom. This wrong opinion as it is necessary to rejuvenate plant, the main thing is to make it correctly.
Instruction
1. It is necessary to separate bush if it grows on one place more than 5 years. It is because at old plant very dense, bound root system which to dig out very difficult is necessary. The earlier to make division of bush, the it will be simpler to cope with this task. If not to carry out division, the plant will begin to hurt over time, and blossoming will stop.
2. It is better to carry out this procedure in the second decade of August to the middle of September. Around plant at distance of 20 cm dig out trench on two bayonets of shovel. Carefully shaking plant in different directions, we take out it from the earth. Shake off roots surplus of the soil a little and leave plant for 3 hours. It is necessary that backs became soft and did not break at the subsequent landing. Then it is necessary to wash roots water and to clean from residues of dirt with wooden peg. Stalks of bush need to be cut on height of 10 cm.
3. Usually old bushes of peony divide in half by means of stake. It needs to be hammered carefully into those places of plant where kidneys are least of all injured and to separate peony into two parts. Each of the separated parts is knifed on allotments. At the same time leave the best parts of bush – the young people having thick roots with a diameter up to 4 cm. All broken, sick and old parts need to be removed, having cut off them knife or secateurs. After all done work, leave the allotments having dense root to 10 cm and 2-3 young kidneys.
4. When the bush is separated, it needs to be prepared for landing. Place roots of allotments in 1% manganese solution for half an hour, and then powder places of cuts with pounded coal. After that young peonies are ready to landing.
5. Long not to wait when the peony pleases with the abundant blossoming, it is necessary to leave higher one allotment, and the others than standard dimension. After landing the peony will begin to blossom magnificently for the second year.
6. In dependences, how many allotments at you it has turned out, it is so much and it is necessary to dig out holes. Hole depth under landing not less than 50 cm. The hole needs to be filled half with the garden earth and it is abundant to water. It is necessary to place bush in hole so that kidneys on root neck were located below ground level on 3-5 cm. From time to time the bush of peony needs to be hilled slightly that kidneys have been covered small with earth layer. Deepening of bush needs to be carried out correctly and carefully as blossoming of peony in the future depends on it.
7. That the planted bushes have not frozen slightly during the onset of cold weather, the soil around them is powdered with dense layer by 10-12 cm of peat. In the early spring the shelter is necessary otgrest that roots did not podopret. In the next years the shelter is not required to plant for the winter, adult bushes of peony perfectly transfer winter.