Amazing flowers called "Georgina" do not leave any person indifferent. High bushes with lush caps of inflorescences of a wide variety of colors so and sit down to them closer to admire the majestic beauty. Coloring dahlias are best grown from tubers. They can buy in spring in a flower shop, in the market at the grandmother or stock from autumn and save to spring.
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Prepare tubers for landing Start in March. At least bought, at least cut out of the basement, free from sand or sawdust, in which dahlias were stored. Prepare 0.15% a mortar of manganese (weakly pink color) and lower the roots into it for 30 minutes. Remove dahlia from the liquid and give them a little to dry.
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Prepare a large box and fill it with a nutrient soil from one part of the earth and one part of the peat. Each tuber to land in the ground so that he does not touch the neighboring and that the root neck is above the ground. Put in a warm room (20-22 ° C). Water the tubers during the day and only when the earth will dry out from the previous watering. The upper part of the tuber once a day spray with ordinary water. If you fully adhere to these conditions, then in two weeks the kidney will turn on the neck, they are also called "eyes".
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After germinating, tubers must be divided into delays. Gently dig them out of the ground and cut the neck along the next few parts, so that each of them has 1-2 kidneys. Plug locations Pap with crushed activated carbon. Each decene will land in a pot with the ground and arrange them on the windowsill in the house or transfer to the greenhouse. Watering do with the earth drying. Georgian's young bushes planted in an open ground when the threat of night frosts.
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If you do not want to mess with gergy and subsequent transplantation, then plan them immediately into the open soil. Then get them out of the basement on May 20-25, and if the kidneys have already crumpled, separately divide into separate decene. Lined immediately to the garden, dahlia require protection against return freezers. To do this, hide the neck with a straw or a cap from Loutrasil (agrofiber).
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Georgins are absolutely not demanding to the soil, i.e. Grow on any lands. What you need to pay attention is to the moisture content of the site and its illumination. Flowers absolutely not tolerate the wetlastics and grow well and blooming on a sunny outless place. It is not recommended to plant dahlias for more than two years in a row in one place - here, as for any other plants, the principle of crop rotation is applicable.
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From fertilizers, Georgina prefer nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Some are better to put under the winter, pre-prepaining a bed to flowers in advance. The land is drunk to a depth of 30 cm and mix it with peat, overwhelming dung and wood ash. At 1 square meter, add 3-4 kg of each. Complex nitrogen fertilizers put in spring in each well and consider the manufacturer's recommendations.
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The care of dahlias is to irrigation, soil loans, the removal of weeds and feeding. Cut the feeder three times per season. The first time - as soon as the plant arrives in the ground and starts actively growing. The second is during the bootonization. The third is at the beginning of flowering. Cooking from cow cobs Cook like this:
In a big bucket, put as much a cowboy so that he takes the fifth part of the volume.
Different with water so that the bucket is complete.
Mix well and cover with a lid.
Leave in a warm place for fermentation for 7-10 days.
Finished infusion to drag the water in proportion 1/4 and water the dahlia.
Depending on the magnitude of the bushes, the feeding may be required at 1 to 5 liters.
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Georgy has a surface root system. Sometimes bushes grow very large, and then under their own weight they can lean. So that this does not happen, they must be dipped. It is necessary to do it when the plant will only go into growth and reaches a height of 15-20 cm.
If you bought the dahlia tuber and were able to grow them, then in the fall, I will definitely do to save them until next year. How to do it, read in our article "How to keep dahlia to spring".