These fine flowers are very popular thanks to the unpretentiousness and long abundant blossoming. Annual asters grow up in two ways: seedling and, respectively, bezrassadny. Each of them has pluses and minuses.
Seedling way
Crops of seeds on seedling should be begun with the middle of March prior to the beginning of April. Prepare planting stock, for this purpose he needs to be killed in growth factor in advance. Dissolve medicine according to the instruction. Spread out seeds on marlechka, cover them with fabric and pour solution. Take them within a day. Then dry.
Prepare substrate for landing of seedling. The simplest is to use ready universal soil, but it is possible to make pochvosmes and most. For this purpose take 2 parts of sheet humus, add 1 part of peat and a little sand or vermiculite for friability of substrate. Fill soil in plastic container. Level surface, lay out on it the prepared seeds of asters and powder with layer of earth in 0.5 cm.
Cover container with film and put to the warm solar place. Expect the first shoots in 3-5 days. Daily wipe film from this improvised small greenery as on it condensate collects.
Land to the open ground on the constant place in the middle of May. And in few months the aster planted thus will please you with magnificent blossoming.
When seedlings have 2-3 present sheets, them it will be necessary to dive in separate glasses.
Bezrassadny way
It is less labor-consuming, than than cultivation in the seedling way therefore many flower growers recommend to grow up asters quite so — to plant plants to the open ground on the constant place at once. It is possible to do it both in the spring, and in the fall. For autumn crops prepare the place for asters in advance. Dig over bed, remove rhizomes of weeds and introduce complex mineral fertilizer and humus. Begin to sow seeds of asters since the beginning of October and to frosts. Make grooves, spread out in them planting stock, and from above powder with humus. In the spring when asters go to growth and there will be the first present sheet, thin out shoots.
Care for seedlings consists in watering, weeding and loosening.
The same way, it is possible to plant asters and in the spring. Pave the way and sow the seeds which are in advance wetted in growth factor. Then water grooves, cover landings with nonwoven ukryvny fabric and expect shoots. Blossoming of the asters planted directly to the open ground in the spring will occur at the beginning middle of September. If you want smart asters to blossom on your site from the middle of summer and to late fall, plant them both seedling, and bezrassadny in the ways.