Planting and caring for gazanias in the garden
Planting gazanias in the garden takes place from mid-May to early June. Before this, seedlings are grown at home. Knowing the secrets of planting and caring for these plants, you can easily decorate garden paths or borders with bright colorful flowers.
Planting and caring for gazania seedlings
It is necessary to sow seeds for seedlings from mid-March to mid-April.
Planting gazanias in the open sun promotes rapid flowering
Planting gazania seeds, as well as caring for them, is carried out according to the following scheme:
- To plant seeds, you need to mix earth, river sand, peat and humus. Fill small deep containers or individual cups with the mixture. The container must be deep so that the long taproot grows straight without bending. Before planting seeds, the soil should be well watered with settled water at room temperature.
- Seeds must be staggered at a distance of 3 cm from each other. Press each seed firmly to the ground and spray with water from a spray bottle.
- After planting the seeds, the cups should be wrapped in plastic bags, and the containers should be covered with glass or transparent film. The room should be bright and the temperature should be around 20 ° C. Seedlings will appear in a couple of weeks.
- Every day for 30 minutes it is necessary to remove the film and ventilate future seedlings.
- After the appearance of 4 leaves, boxes with seedlings must be moved to a cooler place. The air temperature in the room should be 12-16 ° C.
- At this time, the seedlings must be fed with a complex mineral fertilizer.
Closer to the time of planting plants in the garden, they need to be accustomed more and more to the open air. For this, the airing time must be increased and the seedling pots must be taken outside.
At the end of May, it is time to plant seedlings grown at home in open ground. When choosing a place in the garden, for planting these flowers, it must be borne in mind that:
- Gazania loves direct sunlight and cannot stand even the slightest shadow.
- African chamomile easily tolerates temperatures down to + 8 ° C.
- It is undemanding to the composition of the soil, but a mixture of earth, river sand, humus and peat will be ideal for it.
- Gazania is a perennial flower of the Aster family, but in our climate it can only be grown as an annual. In the fall, it can be transplanted into a flower pot so that it overwinters on the windowsill, and with the arrival of spring it can be returned to the garden bed.
- The plant does not tolerate waterlogging of the soil and stagnant water.
- Sowing seeds directly into peat pots will make it easier to transplant flowers into open ground.
- Plants are planted in holes at a distance of 20 cm from each other.
Flowers grown in this way bloom soon after transplanting. Flowering occurs approximately 3 months after planting the seeds.
Gazania is a wonderful decoration for garden paths, borders, flower beds. This exotic flower will create with its presence the atmosphere of a tropical garden in the vegetable garden. Caring for him is very simple and does not take much time. And the best specimens for the winter can be dug up so that they can be planted again in the garden next spring.