The main thing that should be known when landing gladioluses, this flower loves sunlight. In midland of Russia the plant should be planted at the end of April - the first half of May. The place of his "residence" - bed, bed, etc. – has to be surely oriented from the East to the West. If the soil is rather moistened, even at rather low temperature the roots of gladiolus will intensively develop that will well influence fast emergence of healthy and beautiful flowers. However, gladiolus – flower with character, and at its cultivation it is necessary to consider some subtleties …
It is required to you
- - bulbs of gladioluses;
- - film;
- - wire frame;
- - wood charcoal;
- - humus or peat;
- - mullein;
- - chicken or pigeon dung;
- - weeds;
- - caustic soda;
- - means from wreckers.
Instruction
1. The earth in which in the spring you will place bulbs of gladioluses should be covered with film in advance, it is possible even since fall to warm up the soil. The film stretches on wire frame at distance of 20 - 30 cm from the earth. In the spring of bulb it is necessary to put under film at once. In warm weather the film should be removed to temper flowers, - it is very important for the successful growth and blossoming of gladioluses. Finally it will be possible to clean the shelter only when under it many sprouts appear.
2. Before planting bulbs to the earth, they should be cleaned from the dried-up scales. If suspicious sites (it can testify to the beginning of any disease), then it is better to cut them are found, and to strew cuts with the crushed wood charcoal.
3. Depth of landing depends on the size of bulbs and condition of soil. On easy soils of bulb submerge on 10–12 cm, on loamy – is 2 - 3 cm higher. If bulbs small, them it is necessary to place in 5 – 8 cm from surface at all. After landing of gladioluses the earth needs to be covered with layer of humus or peat 2 - 3 cm thick.
4. During the summer it is necessary to carry out several fertilizing. The first becomes with emergence in plants of the third or fourth leaf. As fertilizer at first mullein infusion, and then infusion of chicken or pigeon dung is brought. Gladioluses it is possible to feed up also chlorofillovy extract. For its preparation it is necessary to put any plants in barrel (for example, weeds far not to go), to fill in them with water and to add 100 g of caustic soda. In week this solution it is possible to begin to feed up flowers, parting liter of chlorofillovy extract in water bucket. Also after emergence of the fourth leaf the gladioluses are required to be sprayed with means from wreckers.