Charming flowers irises can be planted both in the spring, and in the summer or in the fall. These unpretentious plants usually very well are accepted. Their landing at various times is made year approximately by the same technique.
It is required to you
- - maternal plant for division;
- - knife or shovel;
- - scoop.
Instruction
1. So, let's look how to put irises in the fall or in the spring. First of all you will choose the place which is the most suitable on the site for these plants. In this plan the irises are rather unpretentious. But landing them on the "correct" place will provide the most abundant blossoming.
2. You will choose under irises first of all well trained place. These ornamental plants not bad feel also in half-shade. But the best answer to question of where to put irises, the sites which are well lit with the sun are nevertheless.
3. Prepare planting stock. In the spring these flowers usually put in May, in the fall it can be done until the end of September. You will choose the biggest and well developed bush for division. Dig out it and shake off the earth.
4. Depending on the bush sizes, take knife or shovel and separate rhizome. It is possible to break bush as well simply hands. After implementation of this procedure on each separated part there has to be sheet bunch. The rhizome at the same time has to consist of two year links.
5. Truncate roots of each dug-out part on 1/3. Remove also old links. Cut off leaves half and remove the dried-up or sick plates. Carefully check rhizome. Cut the begun to rot or sore points knife.
6. Disinfect rhizomes in weak solution of potassium permanganate about 15 minutes. The question of how to put irises in the fall or in the spring, in principle, is simple. But roots of plants should be prepared surely. Otherwise they in the subsequent can be infected with harmful microorganisms or mushrooms.
7. Dry roots in the sun, and then process cuts mix of pounded coal and sulfur. The last should be prepared in proportion about 1:1. If there are no coal and sulfur near at hand, use just ashes.
8. While rhizomes dry up, prepare future bed under irises. Scatter cow or horse manure on its surface. Dig up bed on depth in bayonet of shovel and properly loosen the soil with rake. Level the earth in the horizontal plane.
9. Prepare poles for landing. Their depth should not exceed 3-5 cm. Leave distance between poles in 30-50 cm. In each of poles make small hillock.
10. Start actually landing of irises in soil. Stack rhizome on hillock and accurately straighten backs. Further cover pole with earth.
11. As soon as landing of all irises is finished, condense the earth between bushes. Then water bed. Use water warm, otstoyenny in some garden capacity.
12. If you did not use fertilizers when landing, before watering scatter organic chemistry on bed and accurately close up it to the soil rake. On they are all. Now you know how to put irises in the fall, in the summer or in the spring.