Beautiful yellow flowers, openwork leaves and smell of honey - all this karagana, or yellow acacia though the bush has received this standard name mistakenly. These are two different plants from family bean.
Experts allocate more than 90 types of karagana, and these are bushes from 20 cm high or trees up to 7 meters high. And all of them are very decorative therefore all of them well are suitable for giving.
What is necessary that the karagana shrubby felt on your site comfortably and pleased in magnificent flowers?
- She needs to be put on sunny side of the site. Also semi-shaded places, however are admissible than it is more than light – especially is abundant this treelike bush blossoms.
- It has to be sandy is usual environment for karagana, on such soil it perfectly grows. It is clear, that on boggy places or where there are a lot of underground waters, it will worse grow. And here to nutritiousness and acidity of the soil these plants are not exacting.
- Saplings have to be with the strong "live" roots which have not dried up and have not begun to rot.
Rules of landing of saplings
So, the place for bush is chosen, now it is possible to put. We dig out hole up to 50 cm in depth and sufficient width to find room for sapling roots. On bottom of hole to fill a little crushed stone or pebbles, to powder it with the earth, to establish sapling that it stood exactly in hole. Then gradually to powder with the earth roots, slightly shaking sapling that the earth woke up between roots, and in hole there is no emptiness left. From above also to powder hole with the earth and to stamp soil around sapling.
Further watering of sapling follows (or saplings if at you it is several of them), then it is necessary to pritopat once again soil in hole, and then to zamulchirovat it layer of needles or hay (5 cm).
Care for karagany
Watering. There are enough three times a week that the karagana grew normally. After watering it is desirable to loosen the soil under bush and to remove weeds. And to watch that there was no too strong moistening.
Fertilizing. When bushes are only planted and they need many nutrients for growth, they need to be fed up the solution of mullein or chicken dung divorced 1:50. It is done since the beginning of spring and all summer, with intervals in two weeks, then fertilizing is stopped. Adult plants of such attention do not demand
Cutting. It is necessary for forming of krone, and begins from second year after disembarkation. And the sapling during disembarkation is also cut off on one third, and for the second year the grown escapes likewise cut off. Further it is possible to create krone of any form. The pendent type of karagana is also cut off.
Preparation for winter
The winter-hardy property of karagana does it impregnable for vagaries of the weather, however up to 3 years it needs to be wrapped up for the winter with burlap. To more adult plants differences of weather are already not so terrible.
Diseases and wreckers:
- mealy dew
- white decay
- rust
At defeat delete with these diseases the struck parts. For prevention spray with the Bordeaux liquid. Against wreckers - akatsiyevy plant louse, steklyannitsa, false shchitovka and listobloshka use insecticides.
So, the karagana shrubby, either karagana treelike pendula, or acacia will grow on your site about 45 years, pleasing with magnificent color and the stupefying smell.