How to grow a garden bindweed from seed

Everyone wants to decorate their home. Often this is done with the help of flowers. A modest but beautiful plant - decorative bindweed is often chosen between all possible species. Let's see what this plant needs.

Bindweed garden forms

Today in decorative plantings use two types of decorative bindweed. Each species has many beautiful varieties, but the care for them is the same - except that there will be some small differences, which you will write about in the instructions.

And here are the two species that you can plant in your home:

• convolvulus tricolor (small);

• convolvulus Moorish (Sabat).

Please note that there are varieties where the plant simply grows a bush or spread along a carpet, and there are those that wind along the support.

Choosing a landing site

Convolvulus is recommended to be planted in non-shaded areas where there is a lot of bright sunlight. If this is not possible, then this plant can withstand slightly shaded places, but will not bloom so abundantly and beautifully. He likes moisture, especially on hot days, so the soil should be good to pass and hold water.

Preparatory work

Before landing, you need to carry out preparatory work. Bindweed can be planted in open ground with seedlings or seeds.

The only difference is when to plant. Often choose to grow from seed, because they need to be planted later and they germinate in large quantities.

Soil preparation

The plant loves loose, with normal acidity ground. Black soil will be the best soil. When you find a suitable land for planting, apply sand first for better flowering, pre-loosening the earth. Stir this mixture. Before planting, peat is introduced into the ground (2-3 kg / sq. M).

Seed preparation

Before planting, you need to put the seeds in the water for two to four days. This is necessary for better germination. Swollen seeds can be planted.

Sowing seeds in open ground

Consider how to plant a bindweed when everything is ready with us. Cook peat before planting. You can immediately buy nitrogen fertilizers for better plant development.

Timing

Seeds are planted after soil preparation, in April - May. It is better to choose a warm sunny day.

Scheme

We make small grooves - about 2 cm deep. Plant the prepared seeds not thickly, at a distance of 5-7 cm from each other. From above we fall asleep with loose earth, we slightly tamp. Watering should be carried out twice a week. Under good conditions, sprouts appear in a week.

Application in landscape design

Bindweed with success is used for decorating plots. This plant is perfect for creating hedges, garden beds and compositions, flower figures. It is specially planted to obscure the area and plant flowers there that love the shade. Among these plants, you can use stoneframe, rhododendron, trillium and others. Also convolvulus can be divided into sectors.

It will look good with ipomoea, which are also climbing plants. Also flowers decorate and protect arbors from the sun, facades of houses.

Flower care

Caring for bindweed flowers may seem a bit difficult. But difficulties arise only at the initial stage of landing. Growing up, the flowers need the same care, only in smaller quantities.

Crop shelter

After planting, in order to avoid sudden changes in temperature, it is recommended to protect the beds with covering material. This will help in the fight against weeds, because such material can serve as mulch. Covering material can be removed when the threat of spring frosts and sudden changes in temperature becomes minimal.

Watering, weeding, loosening

Weeding should be done in moderation of the appearance of weeds. If you use mulching, they will not be many.

Need to follow the development of sprouts: weak and frail plants need to be removed, gradually spreading grown flowers at a distance of 20-30 cm Adult plants should be watered as the ground dries. With a lack of moisture in the bindweed buds will fall down. Loosening the land should be done once a week so that a lot of water does not evaporate.

Mulching

For mulching suitable for the first stages covering material. When the plant grows up, you can use peat mulching.

The soil is covered with a layer of 1 cm mulch. Peat mulching hinders the development of weeds, regulates the water and temperature conditions of the soil, enhances microbiological activity.

Fertilization

It is best to apply fertilizer in liquid form. At the first stages of growth it is useful to apply nitrogen fertilizers. During flowering - complex mineral fertilizer. You need to fertilize once a month, in the proportion of 15 g per bucket of water. But with fertilizer you do not need to be zealous - growth will be excellent, but you will not achieve lush flowering.

As you can see, the convolvulus does not cause much trouble in growing, but it will serve as an excellent decorative element of your garden. Grow and let the bindweed pleases your eyes!