Peonies are long-term flowers, and care for these plants begins with the earliest spring after snow thaws. There is nothing difficult actually in leaving, however beautiful and magnificent flowers will be pleasing later to your eye. What it is worth beginning leaving with?
First of all it is necessary to prepare bed where flowers grow. It is necessary to get rid of garbage which has accumulated during the winter and to remove last year's leaves, branches and old mulch. Then it is necessary to wait until from the earth red sprouts of bulbs of peonies begin to be cut through. You should not loosen the earth before their emergence, otherwise it can lead to traumatizing sprouts that can affect development of inflorescences.
Watering of flowers
Leaving needs to be begun when sprouts have already appeared. At first it is necessary to spill potassium permanganate solution the soil, this procedure will help to prevent number of diseases (fungal and virus). The plant needs regular watering, especially when dry weather. It is active it is worth watering bushes of peonies at the end of May, at this particular time there is mortgaging of flower kidneys. It is necessary to make watering approximately time in 10 days. And after it slightly to loosen the earth for intake of oxygen.
Feature of watering of peonies - to spill bush on the periphery. Exactly there young backs which actively absorb moisture are located. The mistake of gardeners is to water at the roots as the thick rhizome connected to the escape basis practically does not absorb moisture. Function of old rhizome - accumulation of nutritious connections.
For young peonies the circle of watering makes 50 centimeters in the diameter, and for old diameter of irrigation zone - 80 centimeters. Conveniently on border of zone of watering to create superficial ditch and to bring there on 3-4 buckets of water for one procedure of watering.
That moisture did not evaporate aimlessly, peonies water day in the evening.
Fertilizing of peonies in the spring
Week later after fertilizing by potassium permanganate solution for prevention of formation of decay the plant is sprayed with the Bordeaux liquid. Put pieces of dry manure on the ascended peonies cow or horse.If landing of peonies has been made correctly, then the next 2 years it is possible to do without fertilizers. For acceleration of growth of roots of plant it is worth carrying out extra root fertilizing (it needs to be done time in 10 days and it is desirable in the evenings).
How to delete buds
Abundant blossoming will be guaranteed to bush of peonies if at young bush to delete excess buds. The fact is that large number of inflorescences on young peony prevents the correct forming of root system. During budding surely delete the buds located sideways. They need to be cut off as soon as the size of bud has reached the size of large pea.
The most dangerous disease for peonies - gray decay. It is provoked by the blossomings of inflorescence which have fallen down later. Therefore as soon as the period of magnificent blossoming comes to the end, from bush cut off the flowers beginning to dry and turn yellow. Such procedure will become guarantee of health of favourite peonies.