How to recognize bad seedling

How to recognize bad seedling

Not all grow up seedling for the seasonal dacha, and buy it in the markets or in specialized shops. That beds pleased in beautiful flowers, and beds with good harvest, seedling needs to be chosen correctly.

Instruction

1. How there was a wish to plant flowers or vegetables a bit earlier, you should not hurry and stare in the early spring at the offered seedling, unexpected return of cold weather can ruin all works. Naturally, it does not belong to plants which you will land houses or to not afraid of easy frosts, normally it is some species of flowers.

2. In the middle of the spring when weather was established more or less stable, it is possible to buy seedling safely. It is better to pay attention to plants in peat pots or other containers. At such seedling well developed root system. But nevertheless attentively consider plants, especially, if them a little in one capacity. Reject those which very much differ from next in growth or have the broken stalk.

3. Consider leaflets and stalks, on them there should not be presence of mold or yellow spots. Seedling which has hung from lack of moisture has to be defective too if plants badly watered, then not to receive good harvest from them. Besides, at some diseases of plant look faded.

4. On the plants offered by sellers there can be wreckers. If you have noticed on leaves at least one insect (plant louse, shchitovka, etc.), then do not buy such seedling, there is risk to bring wreckers to the house or to the greenhouse. Besides, after purchase of healthy plants it is desirable to process them insecticides before landing in soil.

5. If you buy cabbage seedling, pay attention to stalk, its lower part should not be dry and dark color, it is sign of black leg, dangerous disease. One infected plant can ruin all seedling at short notice. Still cabbage has to have the good developed core root. If you have noticed on it thickening, then it can be kil, in this case it is not necessary to wait for harvest.

6. Buying seedling of tomatoes, choose low plants with strong thick stalks and dark green leaves. If they have pale chartreuse shade or spots, then suffer from lack of nitrogen. And here seedling with leaves of red-violet shade on rear side have the shortage of phosphorus.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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