Mirabilis — thermophilic and photophilous perennial grassy plant. For it it is the best of all to choose the open solar place. It is possible to plant plant in shadow, but you should not wait at the same time for large buds, in the absence of the sun the bushes of mirabilis grow pale and look unattractively.
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Mirabilis grow up in the open ground and also in containers and cachepot on verandahs or balconies. The soil has to be neutral and easy, sour and crude soils for this purpose do not approach. It is possible to use loams or even the clay soils leached by lime.
Make multiple copies mirabilis cherenkovaniye, tuberiform rhizome or seeds. Seeds of mirabilis are covered with dense thin skin, they are formed all summer, long stored and well ascend therefore gardeners seldom resort to reproduction by means of rhizomes. The easiest way is to sow seeds. The recommended sowing time of mirabilis — the middle of March. In temperate climate this plant early begins to blossom and remains covered in flowers till late fall.
Seeds ret in water for two days then mirabilis it is possible to put in pots. In soil the seeds land when the soil gets warm approximately up to 20 wasps, then sprouts of flowers appear in 2 weeks. It is possible to seed seeds of mirabilis of the house in February, using containers or other suitable tanks, and to plant seedling in soil in the spring. Single landing, at the same time bush best of all is suitable for these flowers, expanding, can occupy the space to one and a half square meters. That bushes well branched, recommend to prishchipyvat them, in this case the plant will have more flowers. The root of mirabilis can be used for reproduction too. For this purpose it is necessary to cut off plant late fall and to dig out root. It is stored in cold cellar or in the fridge at temperature not above +7os, having enveloped dense paper or having filled up with sand. Korneklubni is landed in soil not earlier than the middle of May.
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Mirabilis is drought-resistant, however in hot and dry weather he can be late with blossoming, its leaves wither. It is necessary to watch soil moisture, at its drying the evening abundant watering at least once a week is required. It is regularly necessary to carry out weedings and to destroy weeds, and — to thin out dense landings of mirabilis. If the distance between bushes is less than 40 cm, they are extended and badly blossom. During active vegetation recommend to carry out 3 fertilizing by full mineral fertilizer. It is necessary to remember that fresh organic fertilizers can ruin plant, having damaged its roots. With approach of blossoming of fertilizing stop. Faded flowers need to be deleted in process of blossom fading and also to daily carry out collecting seeds, self-sowing is undesirable to mirabilis.